TEXAS ROADWAYS
Texas has the highest speed limit in the United States at 85 MPH on Texas State Highway 130 and IH10… and if you’re only going to go 85, please stay in the right lane so the rest of us can pass you.
TEXAS FOOD
The King Ranch in South Texas is larger than the state of Rhode Island … and has a far better chicken casserole.
TEXAS HISTORY & LORE
What you northerners never appreciate … is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks. –James Michener
The Battleship Texas was commissioned in 1914 and is the last remaining battleship that participated in both World Wars. Because it’s a proud Texan, it’s also the only battleship that can blow its own horn.
It was Davy Crockett who wisely said, “You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.”
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How big is Texas? Once it took me three days to hitchhike from the New Mexico border to the Louisiana border.
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One time I was hitchhiking in Texas and this man and woman picked me up. We were talking and he asked, “Where y’all from?”
I said, “Iowa.”
“Iowa?! You’re a Yankee! If you’re not from Texas, then you’re a Yankee!”
I said, “Don’t tell that to the boys in Alabama and Mississippi. You might get shot.”
He started laughing.
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I hitchhiked through Amarillo many times back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The stereotype of Texas for most Iowans is that between November and April, Texas is nice and warm and sunny (that’s why so many Iowans live in Texas during the winter months). I hitchhiked through Amarillo back in December 1997 and they had a big snowstorm. I thought, “Hey, Amarillo is my kind of town.” A snowstorm in Texas–I didn’t think they had much snow in Texas. Then there was another snowstorm in January of 1998.
I always liked going through Amarillo. There is this restaurant on the east side of Amarillo where they will give you a 72-ounce steak for free if you eat it within an hour. I met a lot of friendly people in Texas. If the Lord told me to move to Texas, I would probably live in Amarillo.
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My grandparents died in Texas: my grandmother died in Pharr and my grandfather died in Houston.
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I saw this in Range Magazine:
WHAT’S YOUR CHOICE?
CALIFORNIA
The governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks and kills the governor’s dog, then bites the governor. The governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie Bambi and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural. He calls Animal Control, which captures the coyote and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it. He calls the veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases. The governor goes to the hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and getting his wound bandaged. The running trail gets shut down for six months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals. The governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a “coyote awareness program” for residents of the area. The state Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world. The governor’s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training for the nature of coyotes. PETA protests the coyote’s relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state.
TEXAS
The governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog. The governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The governor spent 50 cents on a .45 ACP hollow-point cartridge. The buzzards eat the dead coyote. And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.
–Range Magazine
Fall 2017
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Loved these. Oh, yes. I’ve been to The Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo.
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Good ones, Jack. Our neighborhood is doomed; some folks from California moved in and are calling their friends. I may have to move.
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Ha! Ha! There goes the neighborhood 😕
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Yep. Some builder bought 3 lots across the street from us. Dozed all the cedar trees and will build homes. Our neighborhood is rural and hilly and that’s why we moved here. And, the builder is from CA. geez.
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Not a good sign. He will likely build more.
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These were all great-and another terrific horse photo. Loved “Remember you’re a refugee, not a missionary.” My cousin lives in Texas, came young from New York, and lost his accent; and it was thick. He acclimated, something unusual?
The Texas Birthday Cake, wow. Tomorrow is my birthday, and was thinking about strawberry shortcake, but I think that photo changed my mind. I would drive down for one of those!
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Oh, that’s awesome. Happy Happy Birthday 🎂 Kathleen! God Bless ❤️ 💙 💜
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Love this!
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