Posted on 02/20/2006 9:35:01 PM PST by Billie
LOL
Well my daddy used to say
"There are 2 kinds of people, Italians and those who wish they were"
Did you get a chance to check your FRMail and pings yet today?
"Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter."
Morning, (((Miss Billie))). You have highlighted the company that I've worked at for 35 years. Makes me might proud to be a Texan, even though it took me 25 years to get here.
This is so wonderful and thank you so much for posting it again. I'll have to come back later today to read some more. This will be fun.
Thanks for the facts about Texas. Interesting stuff. Inever knew that about the Texas flag and being allowed to separate into 5 states if you as a State wants to. And oh how I wish that my State could say that Pres. Bush came fom here!
My McGee gggrandfather came to Texas in 1832 and fought at the Battle of Bexar in 36. Some of my Taylors were at San Jacinto, and one of them B. L. Taylor was a Captain of Calvary for the CSA.
Texas is UT, A&M, Rice, UofH, Tech, Baylor, UT and Baylor Medical. It's Fiesta in San Antonio beside the Alamo, rodeo in a hundred towns, duck, deer, dove and rattle snake hunting. The SW corner of the Great Eastern Forest and the sand dunes at Monahans. The high plains, and the coastal plains, Big Bend, and the lower Valley. It's oil at Wink, Humble, Midland, the Golden Triangle and 80 miles offshore. Bluebonnets, Indian Paints, pine trees, mountains, sand and water.
Texas is Audie Murphy, Chester Nimitz, Ike, LBJ, Mr. Sam, DeLay, and both the Bushes - Jenna and Barbara! ;-) It's the Houston Medical Center with two of the worlds best heart surgeons, DeBakey born in Louisiana and Cooley from right here.
It's Crockett, Travis, Bowie and Sam Houston.
Texas is cattle ranches bigger than some counties, refineries, oil, gas, cotton, world class medical care and the best grapefruit anywhere. It's BBQ (and not that vinegar coated pig from the Carolinas, bless their misguided little hearts), and the best Mexican food around.
Texas is football, baseball, and basketball at all levels. It's the Symphony, Opera, Theater and Ballet. It's Ft Hood, Ft. Bliss, Ft. Sam Houston and a bunch of State and National Guard posts.
Texas is a bunch of people who have been here for two hundred years and some great ones who came last week. It's a second chance.
Y'all come on down.
That thar paintn'a Texas is right purdy Meg!
Beautiful, Valerie! Right outside my little town, I'll betcha! Good to see you, and hope to see you for reals in May!
Wow ... What a song, it would bring tears to the hardest heart. Talk about your tragedy song ... "Your not from Texas" ... now thats just plum mean.
| February 21, 2006
Grooves Of Grace
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A man was traveling in Canada one springtime when frost and melting snow made it nearly impossible to drive farther. He came to a crossroads and saw a sign that said, "Take care which rut you choose. You will be in it for the next 25 miles." That's a wise warning for all of us—and not just when we're driving in rough road conditions.
Whenever we come to a crossroads in life, what choice do we make? In other words, in what direction will we travel and what habits—which ruts of routine—will we establish?
A habit is a pattern of behavior that we follow consistently. We need to decide prayerfully what habits we will practice. Will our habits be mere ruts of routine? Or will they become "grooves of grace"?
Paul referred to his life's journey as a race. He learned that the only way to stay the course was to "discipline [his] body and bring it into subjection" (1 Corinthians 9:27). That implied establishing a consistent pattern of godly behavior.
Good health habits are important, but spiritual disciplines are far more important. Are we choosing to develop consistent habits of prayer, Bible reading, and kindness?
A habit is just a rut of routine. But good spiritual discipline can transform our ruts into grooves of grace. —Vernon Grounds
In the beginning we make our habits; in the end our habits make us.
I am not from Texas- but I lived in Dallas for a while. North Dallas to be exact.
I'm only second-generation Texan. My mother was born in San Antonio.
But I wouldn't trade being Texan for anything.
I tried like heck to find a family connection to my namesake, Capt. James Chessher, but it seems it is not there. I will settle for carrying that great name forward.
Gotta run, but I'll try to drop back by later.
giving me wonderlust!
Now y'all making me think of travel again.
I need to be saving money and plan a trip to TEXAS! :o)
I'm proud to have been born and lived in Texas. The only thing I don't like about Texas is squirrels. Gig 'em!!!
The sun is riz
The sun is set
And here I is in Texas yet!
Weinie
West Texas is a sunrise in the Palo Duro Canyon, a Sunday at Lake Meredith and a sunset in the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day in Shamrock, the Fourth of July at the Texas Cowboy Reunion in Stamford and Christmas stranded in a Panhandle snowstorm.
It’s a monument to a mule at Muleshoe, a jack rabbit statue at Odessa and an 11-foot tall roadrunner named Paisano Pete at Fort Stockton.
West Texas is oil boom and oil bust and thousands of oil pumps nodding like metal insects in a prarie ritual. It’s an Amarillo blizzard, a Sanderson flood, a Wichita Falls tornado, a South Plains duster, a High Plains hail storm and everywhere a target for killer heat waves and dry spells.
It’s an aversion to governmental handouts and cold shoulder to government interference.
West Texas is a beer bust on the Concho River and a drug bust on the Rio Grande.
It’s Longhorns and longnecks, Friday night football and Saturday night fever.
It’s Ace Reid’s cowboy cartoons and Stanley Marsh’s buried Cadillacs and an abandoned shell of a drive-in theater whose crumbling marquee once read: “Gone With the Wind.”
It’s the tree at Notrees and the impact of Impact, the tiny shadow town that brought liquor to Abilene, a city of churches and church schools, the buckle on the Bible Belt.
It’s singing America the Beautiful at a Rotary luncheon in Childress and thanking the Lord for bringing the rain and praising the senior citizens for preparing the food.
It’s a chili cookoff in Terlingua and a Lamblast in San Angelo.
It’s chicken fried steak in Quanah, calf fries in Big Spring, Tex-Mex in Midland and barbecue from Dalhart to Del Rio and El Paso to Fort Worth.
And then there’s steak.
Joe Allen’s in Abilene and the 50 Yard Line in Lubbock do with the ribeye what Picasso did with the paintbrush. In Amarillo, the Big Texan offers a 72-ounce sirloin free to anyone who eats the monster before it eats him.
An oilfield roughneck did it once, and we miss him.
In San Angelo, there’s a restored bawdy house called Miss Hattie’s, but the river city’s greater claim to fame is its steakhouses, surely the most and best of any town its size. Zentner’s Daughter didn’t invent the garlic-flavored KC sirloin but she perfected it.
West Texas is big cars and bank failures, fast horses and fat cows, wheat and corn, cotton and cantaloupe, windmills and sandhills, wildflowers and wildcatters.
Make those plans for the 1st weekend in May this year, and you'll meet lots of Texans. We're having a birthday party for a FReeper and it's gonna be FUN!
Come on down! I see you live in Maryland and my first trip out of Texas, age 3 months, was to Baltimore, where my dad played for the Colts in 48 and 49. You'll like it ..... uh ..... best to NOT come in July, August, or September.
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