Oh, I love this big, relaxed, friendly state and all its diverse people, our easy lifestyle, head square-on-the shoulders nononsense men who still open doors for the ladies and where one doesn't have to be a trustfund baby to afford a lovely home with acerage and drive and park one's own car. The money we save on those big ticket expenses goes toward shopping trips to Neiman's.
Our summers are hot but they don't stop a real Texan and our winters are easy with just enough snow and ice to give a rich flavor to the season.
I love sitting on my porch sipping sweet tea with mint and enjoying a way of life that largely hasn't succumbed to the high-tech rat race of the new millenium unless you drive into Dallas proper! I'm no cowgirl but I have always loved horses and even had the great pleasure of having my own for years, stabling him with friends only a few miles into the country. Nothing like racing through the countryside astride a beautiful, sleek animal with the wind whipping your hair like an East Texas tornado to clear out the cobwebs!
Hill-country weddings at a rustic lodge are a hoot with all the carousing and dancing and you gotta love a cowboy weekend at a friend's ranch for great cuisine from the chuckwagon chef right out on the prairie with a fireside singalong as a few of the boys strum their guitars late into the warm night beneath the huge, limitless starfilled sky of Texas.
Texas is a state of mind, it's true, but it is lovely to get to live Texas all one's life.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |