My Texas
 

Well I'm not from Texas but I'm going there this month and I'm excited to enjoy all that is Texas....I was sweet tea and bbq mostly!!! I'm also excited for Teddi to wear her cowgirl outfits that I'm getting made for her!

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When I was little my plan for my life was to grow up, move to Texas and have a FARM :D

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You are lucky to live in a warm State. When My Husband retires we may move to Florida. I love Spring, Summer and Fall in Indiana but Winter stinks. I do like the changing of the seasons though and I love our fall festivals and festivities. Indianapolis is really big on festivals and events all year long.

Make sure you take cool clothes and insect repellent.....

I love my Texas too....but, a couple of things I couldn't get use too; the hot weather and mosquitoes.

As Texans say there only two Seasons; Christmas and Summer

I'll add no one has hearts as bit as the people in Texas.

Have only driven thru the upper panhandle of TX. a few times but I'm sure there must be prettier parts than that dry flat land. ;) Were I come from we sit on porches, say "yall" call a sack a poke, pick our own dandelion leaves to make salads, learn to drive on mountains and hair-pin curves, have kin that are real mountain folks and some still make moonshine, other kin working in coal mines all week and get together on someones porch on Sat. for fiddle playing and dancing, and church on Sunday then home to cook fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy & corn on the cob, all raised in the back yard.

Now I live in CA. where I don't know many who even cook, we all invite people to "do" lunch with us in our favorite restaurant, we love shopping, festivals, plays, the beach, back yard BBQ's, visiting fantastic San Francisco, Sequoia mountains, and all the wonderful quaint towns up and down the coast line, riding bikes, rollerblading. We also have the best weather in the US right here on the central coast. Wouldn't trade places with anyone. :D

I've lived in both states, born and raised Southern Californian and I'll grant you, you can find prettier scenery anywhere. But, you can't compare with the people of Texas....there are no stangers, everybody is greated with howdy, they wave at everyone, the grocery clerk knows you and your family by their first names and asks about them....and the first question posed to a stranger is not how much the cost of your car or where you bought your clothes....but, what church you attend.....Oh! And those Blubonnets up and down the highways are a sight to behold.....

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.

Yeah, we Texas can afford acreage, we jes cain't spell it worth a dern!

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Miss the Ft. Worth Stockyards on Chisum Trail Days.....blocking off the streets...Grapefest in Grapevine...Great Food (yep! women still home cook, it's a matter of pride). Love smokers......great way of cooking......

I never locked my door in the 16 years I lived there. Parents still instill manners into their children and teach them respect and civility. The still address you as Mr. & Mrs. Although, there is nothing taught about children should be seen and not heard. There is a sense of confidence in them without the attitude.

It is an easier way of life; God Bless Texas. Hill Country is beautiful, East Texas has wonderful trees.....Yeah! the land is pretty flat, (the highest place in Texas in the hood of your car) and it takes forever to get from one end of the state to the other and if you don't like the weather stick around 5 minutes it'll change.....but, you can't beat those big hearted Texans.

I meant you can't find prettier scenery anywhere.

Bless You!! :)

Texas is a wonderful state. As a child my grandparents had a house in Corpus Christi and my mom, brother and I lived there for awhile. Later they got a farm in Aransas Pass, TX and we lived there some on and off. My other grandparents had a big farm in Karnes City, TX. I always loved going there. Other places in Texas where I have lived are Austin, Houston, Spring, Tomball, Humble, Splendora and Warren. I have lived here in Warren, TX now for about 11 years and I love it here. We live on 6 acres out in the country. I have visited many other places in Texas. My parent retired in Kerrville and I loved going to visit them when they were living. After my dad died my mom moved to San Antonio and I would go there to visit her. There are just so many wonderful places to visit in Texas. Of course I have lived in other states too, California, Louisiana and Virgina. I guess I am just happy to be in America. There are many wonderful states that I have yet to visit but perhaps one day I will.

I've heard of the bluebonnets and I found a place that people say we have to take pictures at. We are stopping on the way to the hotel to take pictures of the dogs with the bluebonnets. I can't wait!!

Yep! :D

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...and hair is still big, nails are long, cars are large, and diamonds are a girl's best friend. Neiman's rules, Northpark is the best entertainment around, Homecoming mums are HUUUUUGE, kids call you "Miss ____"...to name a few more. Love it, and, as they say, "Got here as fast as I could!" (Although, I'm not a huge fan of August and September)

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Florida....Tea is sweet, beaches are blue, sea food is the best, Florida springs run wild and beautiful, people are awesome, the best of all is its spring and summer all year long.

Yep, every girl owns a Texas size bottle of Hair Spray! lol...I love Northpark Mall...:)

This Kentucky girl is feeling kind of jealous about your 85 degree weather in April. ;)

come on now this is a Texas thread

Now that is something I don't miss. 85 degree temp and 85 % humidity.....it takes getting use to.

The first year I was there I layed under the airconditioning vent and cried that I wanted to come back to California......but, again I'd suffer the heat again just to get back to the people.

Love Northpark, Galleria and even old old Highland Park shops are still fun.

Just check for fleas and Tics

My favorite place to spend the day is Old McKinney.

Have you been shopping at the Southlake Towne Center?

It is funny driving along the freeways here in Texas this time of year and here and there are parked cars on the shoulder with pods of people grouped around in the bluebonnets, kids and pets alongside with a tripod and camera not far off, flashing away.

It is a rite of passage of spring time in Texas to plop down in the bluebonnets and get snapped each year. Once I was driving home from work on LBJ Freeway and traffice was slowed way down, stopped at times. As I inched along I soon came alongside a woman taking pictures of her three triplet boys about age 4 who looked exactly alike! Their three faces were all squeezed together as they hugged each other, huge smiles on their cerubic little faces. One boy had on a bright red shirt, one bright blue and one bright yellow. They were tickled and laughing, hugging, getting the biggest kick out of it all and nobody driving home from work wanted to drive on past it was such a great moment! I stilll wish I could have gotten my hands on one of those prints!

Women in TX are GRITS (Girls Raised in the South!) We do say ya'll alot and bless your lil heart! too. One of my favorite pics of my oldest daughter is in a field of bluebonnets. We ride the Harley in the hill country. This state is big enough that you can see almost any type of landscape ,mountains,ocean,corn fields and cattle,goats, sheep and they sometimes graze around oilwells pumping away.
Summers are HOT,I spend mine in the backyard in the pool,watchin my man cook bar b q and my kids and dogs running all over the yard. Winters have blue northers blow through,you know where the wind is so cold and blowing 30mph and straight,cause there isnt anything between your house and Alaska except a bobbed wire fence and its down. I just keep throwing wood in the fireplace and sew until the temp comes back up. I havent been here all my life but I got here as fast as I could,that was 45yrs ago.
I hope to meet several of the YTmembers from the DFW area at some point,but for now I am thrilled to just have the oppertunity to get to know each member wether they are GRITS or the live about the Mason Dixon Line. Ya'll are all wonderful! Bless your lil hearts!!

This is so true!!! I hate the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter. Been here for 29 years and can't seem to leave. Love all the open space in the country, love the huge variety of places to shop at and love all the wild flowers that pop up out of no where. As long as I have AC & Heat I will be here forever.