Texas Blessing

Lady Rando · #1 06-04-2004, 03:41 PM

My wonderful Mom, who is a Texan through and through sent me this. I just had to share it with those of you who are and are not Texans.

A TEXAS BLESSING Note: If you are not a resident of TEXAS
or never have lived in the hot, humid South, you may not
understand the weight of this blessing!

-Bless this house, oh Lord, we cry.

-Please keep it cool in mid-July.

-Bless the walls where termites dine,

-While ants and roaches march in time.

-Bless our yard where spiders pass

-Fire ant castles in the grass.

-Bless the garage, a home to please

-Carpenter beetles, ticks and fleas.

-Bless the love bugs, two by two, the gnats and mosquitoes that
feed on you.

-Millions of creatures that fly or crawl, in TEXAS, Lord,
you've put them all!!

-But this is home, and here we'll stay,

-So thank you Lord, for insect spray.

shrinkinviolet · #2 06-04-2004, 04:18 PM

As a Texan currently living in Tennessee, I can say How True, How True! But as you said it could apply to anyone living in the deep South.

Judy

Enchanted · #3 06-04-2004, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by shrinkinviolet

As a Texan currently living in Tennessee, I can say How True, How True! But as you said it could apply to anyone living in the deep South.

Judy

As a TEXAN who just happens to live in New Mexico...

I would hasten to add that at least one third of Texas is West Texas and the panhandle, and it's very different from the 'rest of the state.' In west Texas you have to worry more about rattlesnakes, scorpions, tarantulas, seering heat and low humidity, and cactus thorns. In the panhandle you need 'only' worry about dust storms, tornados, and blue northers in winter!

"Luckily" I was born in El Paso and have lived in every large city in Texas in the interim. You can NOT generalize about Texas. After all, it is "A Whole Other Country!" Just be sure you "Don't Mess with Texas!!"

Lady Rando · #4 06-04-2004, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by jaxas

You can NOT generalize about Texas. After all, it is "A Whole Other Country!" Just be sure you "Don't Mess with Texas!!"

I also have live in Texas from the coast to Fort Worth and am well aware that Texas is vast and varies greatly from one side to the other.

It was a joke, from a Texan ...... lighten up.

Enchanted · #5 06-05-2004, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Lady Rando

It was a joke, from a Texan ...... lighten up.

It was read by me in that light, and replied to in kind - I thought that's what the

was supposed to convey. I would suggest perhaps it is you who needs to lighten up if you took me that seriously!

As for your "joke" - I thought enough of it to email it to my daughter who lives in Richardson (a suburb of Dallas) - very appropriate for her locale. As for myself, I lived in Austin for 10 years before moving to New Mexico, and there I couldn't mow my lawn without suffering at least one instance of fire ant bites. That is until the little lizards took over! No more fire ants, but plenty of lizard "evidence" throughout the house.

Lady Rando · #6 06-05-2004, 07:33 PM

How about those wonderful flying yard roaches that live on the coast. The ones that aren't suppose to get in your house but do, and dive bomb you.

Those things are huge! Oh what fun they were.

yahooserious · #7 06-05-2004, 10:22 PM

Love it!! Yesterday I started a small personal digi pic project I call "This is Texas".. I'll have to include a good pic of fire ant mounds!

A lot of people have no idea how diverse Texas is. Mountains, desert, piney woods, the coast, rolling hills, the hill country, wheat fields, cotton, cattle, horses, high plains where it is cool at night no matter how hot in the day...I'll stop now!

Emilie

Michael · #8 06-06-2004, 01:06 AM

Sounds like a good one for Florida too

prairie painter · #9 06-06-2004, 02:02 AM

Yipe, you are making me very happy that great-granpa came to Washington instead of down that-a-way! The worst we've got is pesky migratory Californians

(ok, so, we have mosquitos the size of hummingbirds. Don't know whats worse!)

Enchanted · #10 06-06-2004, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by yahooserious

Love it!! Yesterday I started a small personal digi pic project I call "This is Texas".. I'll have to include a good pic of fire ant mounds!

Hey, I can contribute photos of roadsides and fields of bluebonnets, Indian paint brush, poppies, yuccas, barrel cactus in bloom, ocotillas, and on and on!

The reason I keep coming back to west Texas is because there are many many folk who forget about "that part of Texas" or think "harshly" of it, if they think about it at all. It's a vast region of desert lands that one has to acclimate to if one has never seen anything but green grass and trees and farm fields full of crops. You'll be hard pressed to find fire ants in west Texas since even they can't survive there! Maybe because the proliferation of ant eating varmints (snakes, lizards and even more voracious insects).

yahooserious · #11 06-06-2004, 10:34 AM

Aw, Jaxas, West Texas is gorgeous. Driving from Sherman to Lubbock, you get the best of it, I think, except for Ranger hill west of FT. Worth.

I'll shut up, now. I didn't mean to take over your thread, Lady Rando (your name escaped my lame brain this a.m.

)

Jax, it's just a small project, but I'd appreciate any contributions you'd care to make and give you credit. I don't know how long it's going to take me to do this.

Emilie

Enchanted · #12 06-06-2004, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by yahooserious

Aw, Jaxas, West Texas is gorgeous. Driving from Sherman to Lubbock, you get the best of it, I think, except for Ranger hill west of FT. Worth.

Ummmm... I don't generally think of anything in the panhandle, Ft Worth or Sherman as being "west Texas." I think maybe I should have used the term "trans-Pecos region" instead:

Trans-Pecos region = West Texas?

In any case, it's the "trans-Pecos" region that defines West Texas to me.

yahooserious · #13 06-06-2004, 08:57 PM

I was just talking about the drive. It shows such a diversity! To me, the whole state is beautiful.

Emilie

Toadie · #14 06-06-2004, 09:01 PM

So True so true, but I would not trade my wonderful secluded studio ranch for nothing..............

Although would loe to isit many many other places Texas is in my blood skin and bones.......

O I found a four foot rattler while painting outside today hehehehehe.

Enchanted · #15 06-06-2004, 09:28 PM

Aha!! A bit of web browsing found this map of Texas breaking it down into its generally accepted unigue geological/ecological regions. The "Big Bend" region conforms to my perception of "West Texas." You may be able to make out the current tourism promotional slogan at the bottom, "It's like a whole other country." As indeed it is.

And a big TEXAS THANK YOU to Lady Rando for giving all of us diehard Texans another opportunity to brag about our birth state - as if we Texans ever really need another reason to brag!!

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