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Great thread Billie!
Isn't everyone?
Love this thread, Billie! Thanks for showcasing our state!
Never ask a man where he's from. If he's from Texas, he'll tell you soon enough. If he's not, why embarrass him?
"They are cattle & oil wells."
My daddy learned me good and he told me plain,
"Blur, they ain't no such thing as a cattle well. Don't believe what them Texans tell you, no Sir."
Newcomer to Texas by way of Georgia,
NewLand
Thanks for the reminders. The greatest state in the land.
The best president of the 21st Century.
The best college football team in the country.
The prettiest gals you'll ever see.
And NO state income tax to boot! Yeee hawwww!
I moved from Houston in '02 to Shelton Ct and I long for the day when I can return.
Why, yes, Ma'am, I am!
Loved your little animation slide show up above the "Dubya Walkin'" one - it has my birthplace, my marriage place and one of my job places all in one little neat package!
I'd like to add ... This is Texas ... the Lone Star State of Texas ... this is the Giant ... Land I Love!
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Just like a sleeping giant sprawling in the sun,
In one great hand the Rio Grande
In the other, Galveston.
Where oil wells laugh at angels
And buzzards wheel above,
This, then, is Texas--
Lone Star State of Texas.
This, then, is Texas--Land I love.
My ma was born in Dallas, Father in Ft. Worth.
You can bet your boots I got my roots
In the good old Texas earth.
Just see the silver dollars
Falling from above.
This, then, is Texas--Lone Star State of Texas
This, then, is Texas--Land I love.
God made these lonely acres where I ride alone,
But the devil cursed this land with thirst
And he bleached it like a bone.
One day a wild tornado
Next a gentle dove.
This, then, is Texas--Lone Star State of Texas
This, then, is Texas--Land I love
Song Title: Giant
Music-Dmitri Tiomkin
Lyrics-Paul Francis Webster, 1956
More than 4800 trail riders are heading into town right this minute, to converge in Memorial Park Friday for a hootin' and hollerin' good time.
Friday is GO TEXAN Day, where everyone wears Western wear - EVERYONE!
Check out the Trail Ride routes and stops - if they're coming through your town, go out and wave "Howdy!" to these hardy souls who've braved freezing temperatures and rainstorms just to come to our Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Parade this Saturday!
Then come on down and ...
A German artist named Ludwig Bemelmans once visited far West Texas, exploring its forbidding but majestic mountains and barren desert, and afterward said: “It is what Beethoven reached for in music. It will make you breathe deeply whenever you think of it, for you have inhaled eternity.”
A simply lovely thread Billie in EVERY way possible. Great material, factual & fun. Great Graphics. GREAT/GORGEOUS presentation from deep in the heart of Texas.
After living in Houston for two years I fell in love with the state. Only left as I had a "better job" offer in Charleston(as fate would turn out never materialized as my short time to help mom here "first" turned into a decade plus.)
I loved San Antonio & "my beach" was a quaint fishing area with closest community being Matagorda. I DID have to go to see "southfork" as I was a Dallas addict during it's years of glory. I traveled to DFW in 2002 to be part of the Billy Graham crusade & just relished in lunch & a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus.
MOVIE ADDICT THAT I AM.. I must recommend recent movie Glory Road about a touching story about a Texas college football team from a few years back
"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!
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
Hey, I spent three years in El Paso, but that's Texas the way H2 in Hawaii is an Interstate highway.
I was also in Dallas last Summer. It felt good.
First weekend in May, huh? Hmmm.
Mighty inviting look at your beloved Texas, Billie. Haven't been to Texas since I was a very young pup.
Soooo, does this mean you're hosting a giant FR's Finest FReeper party at the Billie Ranch? What's the date and time?
