Lone Star Chat

Texas ^ | Saturday, May 10, 2003 | A Texan

[Flyer]

Our Texas Locale page recently got very busy on the unusual topic of Ouija boards and such. Archy suggested a Lone Star Thread That Will Not Die. Like those darn Hobbit threads with 30,000+ posts.

This is not my thread and I'm not going to baby sit it every day. I just gathered the kindling and y'all have to start the fire.

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm not in Texas! I am from Washington State, and have never crossed the Mason Dixon line!

I was only here to help the thread get started... I am from the that "darn Hobbit thread with 30,000+ posts" Flyer mocked in the opener.

[CindyDawg]

I'm not in Texas! I am from Washington State, and have never crossed the Mason Dixon line!

Now aren't we Texans shamed. A northerner is having to keep our thread going. lol

[Flyer]

that "darn Hobbit thread with 30,000+ posts" Flyer mocked in the opener.

I prefer to say that darn Hobbit thread I honored in the opener.

[HairOfTheDog]

I thought that would be a source of shame!

[HairOfTheDog]

heh!

[computerjunkie]

"I thought that would be a source of shame!"

A horrible source of shame for proud Texans!

[CindyDawg]

All I could copy and past from your ping list :')

[potlatch]

Thanks M&M, I'll save them for later. It took my little laptop awhile to load this page with all the beautiful pictures, LOL!

[potlatch]

Yes, it was a terrible shame to cut those pecan trees down, and I think it passed by ONE vote!!

[Wneighbor]

Well, do't mistake me for a tree-hugger. But, it doesn't make sense to cut them down for no reason. They are beautiful, scenic and should have stayed.

[CindyDawg]

They could have dug one up and re-planted it in my yard :')

[Wneighbor]

I prefer to say that darn Hobbit thread I honored in the opener.

Okay, I'll feel a lot more welcome over here now. My first home here on FR was the Hobbit Hole although my lifetime home has been deep in the heart of Texas.

[MeekOneGOP]

You're welcomed.

Yes, there are quite a few pics of the folks from that time period on that thread . . .

[Wneighbor]

They could have dug one up and re-planted it in my yard :')

Well, I keep mowin' over little ones all over my yard. I could dig you up some if you could come way north to get 'em. But, they're just native pecans so they wouldn't make good eatin' pecans unless you grafted 'em.

[CindyDawg]

That's ok. I have my own mower. (my husband) He cut down my sickly pecan tree that I had been trying to get to grow for 5 years, this weekend. The fight was on :')

[Wneighbor]

Well, I read your page about CindyDawg. Sounds like to me your hubby just likes ribbing you a bit every now and then.

I have only lived in Wichita Falls for a little over a year but since I've been in this durned place I've lost 3 pecan trees in my yard to storms. I don't think they were meant to grow here. Back home, those roots grew so deep NOTHING would get 'em up. I know, I've tried. I grew up in a pecan bottom.

[CindyDawg]

We get along just fine (most of the time lol). Anyway, I was raised around them too but I guess it's just too hot for small ones here. I bought this one from gurneys and it just didn't grow well. I guess I should have taken their planting zone seriously. I didn't think one up would make a big difference . Probably going to just plant a large oak. To bad they didn't try to move and save those trees though.

[Wneighbor]

I agree about the trees being saved.

But, like you, I'm surprised that the planting zone would make that much difference. When I moved from Central Texas up here I dug up and moved several perenial plants. Surprisingly, the only thing I lost my a sage plant. Now, who would have thought a sage would be picky in Texas?!

But, I went down a zone and into vastly different soil. And yet everything else survived. (still shaking my head over that sage though.)

[Wneighbor]

only thing I lost WAS a sage plant.

[Flyer]

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