Cedar
True Texan
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 |  Subject: Re: Embracing Texas ... Wrestling with Texas  Tue 18 Mar 2008, 3:28 pm | |
| | TreesbytheSea wrote: | That's a true historian.
But okay.
I do like sheep. They are hilarious, funnier than chickens. At least a close second. But they do chew the grass down to a nub that won't grow back, which is why cow people don't like them much. That, and you have to shear them.
How's this one:
A true Texan doesn't break a sweat until the thermometer gets over 105. |
I agree with Madelyn on this one: when viewed from the perspective of temperature-tolerance, I most definitely am not a 'true' Texan. But, then ... neither is my mother nor was my grandmother. How they stood the heat before -- even with the luxury of Victorian high ceilings and breezy front porches -- I'll never comprehend.
But what of goats? They are kind to the lawn; Memom's family kept them down in the Hill Country for this very reason .... and for their milk. I suppose that they were goat-ropers, then?
Oh, and her dad was a 'brush-clearer,' too. Surely that was an activity undertaken in the Texas fall or during her mild winters ....
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TreesbytheSea
Wrangler
Joined : 13 Nov 2007
Posts : 49
| | Subject: Re: Embracing Texas ... Wrestling with Texas Tue 18 Mar 2008, 5:06 pm | |
| I no longer possess heat tolerance either. Took me four years to acclimate to the cool temperate region of the old growth redwoods. After that I thought Hawaii was insufferably hot, lol! then I came back here and remembered what a hell vent is like.
Dunno what they say about goats. I just remember hearing about how sheep were "locusts".
So, where's your one-liner, it's your turn... |
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TreesbytheSea
Wrangler
Joined : 13 Nov 2007
Posts : 49
| | Subject: Re: Embracing Texas ... Wrestling with Texas Tue 18 Mar 2008, 5:08 pm | |
| | madelyn wrote: | | TreesbytheSea wrote: |
How's this one:
A true Texan doesn't break a sweat until the thermometer gets over 105. |
Does it count if the thermometer's outside and you're inside with the thermostat set on 72?
Regards,
Madelyn |
LOL!!!
No. |
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madelyn
True Texan
Joined : 17 May 2007
Posts : 225
Localisation : Texas suburbanite
| | Subject: Re: Embracing Texas ... Wrestling with Texas Wed 19 Mar 2008, 2:19 pm | |
| | I really don't think of myself as a Texan but as an American. |
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Born in Texas
Trailblazer
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Localisation : Hometown USA
| | Subject: Re: Embracing Texas ... Wrestling with Texas Wed 19 Mar 2008, 5:35 pm | |
| I guess I think of myself as both. They're all I've ever known. I'd probably miss my state and my country if I ever left. All my people are buried here.
Love, Mari |
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Cedar
True Texan
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Posts : 1112
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| | Subject: Re: Embracing Texas ... Wrestling with Texas Mon 11 Aug 2008, 1:31 am | |
| | TreesbytheSea wrote: | | madelyn wrote: | | TreesbytheSea wrote: |
How's this one:
A true Texan doesn't break a sweat until the thermometer gets over 105. |
Does it count if the thermometer's outside and you're inside with the thermostat set on 72?
Regards,
Madelyn |
LOL!!!
No. |
Think about this, my dear Lady Trees .... that there are some who so crave what our ancestors toiled, sweated and bled for -- that they can write of "c. 1936 our Centennial year" when that 100 years has no connection to their own family or heritage  Such a theft has caused me finally to wake up .... to learn how to appreciate and cherish what those bandits grasp for. Surely, treasure lies here 
Once, when I was working at Ray Roberts Lake, a man and his son came in to reserve a camping spot. They gave their name as 'Cope,' and I knew right away (through you, of course) what I might inquire gently concerning their roots. Those two responded, Yes! .... They were of those Copes, and I breathed that I knew a little of their land. We bonded in that moment, those two 'Colliners' and me .... the upstart and searching one with roots way down southeast. But we -- all three -- knew (I presume a bit, here!) that some deep and onery roots tied us to this Texas.
So, consider that .... as you seek those wide horizons. Your kin did like unto you now long ago, and their paths and reasonings may become clearer to you as you move ahead.
There is treasure in this land .... there must be 
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves |
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