YOU ARE FROM TEXAS IF: You are a graduate of the University of Texas or the University of Texas or the University of Texas or...... The invitation "Ya'al come" is real as 150 people turn up for a barbeque. You go to visit your next door neighbor and arrive 4 hours later. You drive a truck with horns attatched to the grill (animal horns that is). You wear a Stetson to the office and anywhere else. You speak Spanish and English. Your vehicle horn emits the sound of a bull. You know that cowboys are not necessarily minding cows for a living. They are chasing pig skin. Your yard decor is a bleached steer skull. You know a Texas Ranger is not a farm hand. You know two meanings for the word "panhandle". You know there is oil for cooking and then there is OIL for $$$$$$. ****************** You are NOT from Texas if you think a bathroom break in Wichita Falls will do til you make it to Corpus Christi. The phrase "Daddy, are we there yet", takes on new meaning. You are not from Texas if you can't pronounce oil, Lubbock, or Rio Grande River correctly. ********************** A tad of History: 1820 MosesAustin was granted permission by the Mexican government to begin a colony of Americans. He died before carrying out his plan. His son, Stephen F. Austin brought 300 American families to settle in the Mexican state of Texas. Thus we have: San Felipe de Austin, Austin County and the city of Austin. There now you know more about Texas than you did and maybe ever want to know. There are 310 members of Adlandpro from Texas---go invite them to be on your list. Mary Hofstetter 2006 _______________ Texas Sheet Cake: A cake larger than you want to eat alone. It will please a crowd. http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/362396.aspx Visit Rosilie from Texas http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/527836.aspx You might like to meet Ken The Blog Man from that other part of Texas http://community.adlandpro.com/go/sword2drum/Default.aspx

Wow Mary! You "really know your stuff" about Texas and Texans! Yes......it CAN be rather far between towns. Especailly in South and West Texas! Need to gas up, get a cold Coke & use the "facilities" when you get a chance. And....yes....yo hablo espanol un poco! (I do speak a little Spanish). Me gusta la comida Mexicana tambien (I like to eat Mexican food also). Actually.....I call myself a Texican quite often!

When I was a young mother, we traveled with a baby daughter from Ohio to Texas in a brand new Vokeswagon beetle. We had it all loaded down as babies need a lot of supplies and paraphania. The croweded conditions were getting me down. When we finally reached the Texas border I sighed with relief and exclaimed "We are almost to San Antonio". Not understanding geography, distance etc. I was shocked to learn that we had another whole day to travel. As we fed milk to our baby daughter, she became more fussy. Drinking more liquids was not helping, it was making it worse. Finally in the heat of the afternoon we stopped in a filling station, restaurant and waited out the heat of the day. An experience I have never forgotten.

WHAT!  No mention of Texas A & M?!

Your Aggie friend,

Lawton

Thank you Mary......