A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....08-05-03....Texas, MY Texas

Billie

[LadyX]

Hmmmmm.....moving right along, the wayside is strewn with the Usual Assortment of dork charges, near-blows and resolution of an almost conflict..:)) - ducks and longhorn cattle and bluebonnets discussion - spectacular scenery - - at least eighty-eleven "Oh, How I Miss Texas" sobbing expatriates putting in their two cents worth - -

An "I'm Moving Announcement" - an awful lot of braggin' !! - and several "I Survived a Mad Dash Across The Too Big State of Texas !! testimonies.

To the latter, I can add that after a year of being in South Dakota and 3 1/2 years in Fairbanks, Alaska, the Lord had pity and sent me to Myrtle Beach, SC next, by way of Florida.

Traversing the Alaska Highway and plunging down the Rockies in the Lower 48, it was a Jackets-in-June Experience until we reached New Mexico and swung across Texas.

Billie and all y'all Texans - it was not Waltz Across Texas in our Greenbrier van with no a/c - 5 now hot bodies and a dog in 105 degree heat!! We positively sweltered, reaching Louisiana and holing up in an air-conditioned motel for a day to recover..:))

My thought on that interminable dash was,"Who on earth could live HERE??!!"
LOL

[lonestar]

See #244

Weinie

[Flyer]

reaching Louisiana and holing up in an air-conditioned motel

Hey we DO have air-conditioned motels in Texas, too.

[ValerieUSA]

I escaped the house for a few minutes this evening and found a butterfly or two or a dozen....

[humblegunner]

"Who on earth could live HERE??!!"

Oh, yes, it's a bloody awful place...
But I can see how driving across the Texas desert might sour one.
It is indeed inhospitable! We think of it as a border.

[LadyX]

Loved East Meets West, Dubya.

Are you the author??

[Libertina]

I am sorry I'm so late in coming :( Gearing up for tomorrow's Hillary FReep north of Seattle. But what an absolutely beautiful thread today. I'm ready to move to Texas! BTW, Carry Okie is coming to my area on Thursday to lecture on Property Rights. Several of us WA FReepers will be there to greet our FReeper brother and family :)

[JustAmy]

"So it blew you all the way to CA??"

Y E P
L O L

[LadyX]

Had Muscovy ducks when I was 9 to 13 years old.

On V-J Day, ending WWII, little ones hatched, and every one of them emerged with a black V for Victory on their foreheads!

[Extremist]

Does Gruene Hall mean anything to y'all?

Its where me and the Misses hung out on our honeymoon. We've gone back every year, staying at the Gruene Mansion Inn next door. If ya ain't been there yet....TYA!!!!

[LadyX]

Good thing I just consumed dinner, or I'd have snatched some of that right off your grill, gunner..:))

[ValerieUSA]

One more picture from tonight before I go pack a few more boxes

[LadyX]

Mega Greetings and Welcome Home to you, Johnny Mac!

About time to view this double rainbow - -
there always is one somewhere..:))

[LadyX]

Let's see if I can craft a Burma Shave Sign Series for that trek across Texas - -

Travelers rushing to get through

Don't let the arid desert get yew.

If yew stop to admire the view

Snakes and heatstroke might collect yew.

- Burma Sgave -

[Calpernia]

>>>near-blows, an almost conflict.

(lowers head, goes off to the corner)

I'm sorry :(

[LadyX]

- Burma Sgave - ???!!!

Yep - heatstroke definitely got to me..:))

[Calpernia]

(jumps immediately to google....must find a garden center online to make backyard look like that)

[Calpernia]

How cute!!!! Ducklings are so sweet.

[ValerieUSA]

Did you mean Burma Grave?
Isn't it redundant?

[jwfiv]

Cool Burma Shave signs

to read while we're surfing between the lines,

going 'cross the desert and thru the woody pines,

that rhyme was Lady X's

remembering her drive thru Texas...)