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Unread 01-20-2008, 02:05 PM
Status: "Here and there eventually!" (set 1 day ago)
 
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Also what I really love is during the heat and humidity of our summers is listening to the locusts (cicaddas) humming loudly in the trees. For some reason, that's a comforting sound to me.
Ahhhh, going back if only in my dreams...! *smiles*

As the locusts begin to sing to one another on a soft Southern summer evening, warm and rainbow scented, and all the while the lightning bugs start to come out to play...

Wonderful, Miss Bluesie! And don't forget the homemade icecream....
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Unread 01-20-2008, 04:00 PM
 
Location: The Great Southwest
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Blueskies

The sound of cicaddas is very relaxing. I enjoy sitting on the porch in the spring and summer at dusk listening to them and rubbing Boudreaux's (my terrier) belly watching the sun set and drinking ice tea. It's the simple things that makes Texas home and my heart heavy when I travel outside of this great state.

Case44

I miss Bum Phillips and "Earl the Pearl" Campbell. While I was raised on the Cowboys, I think Jerry Jones has done a beautiful job of screwing up America's Team. Tom Landry was the consumate gentleman and an agressive tactician when it came to football.
And that is exactly why I am no longer a Cowboys fan. I quit watching most football when Landry got canned, other than a game every once in awhile from my alma mater...(Go Raiders!!).

When and if...Jerry Jones sells the team, I might reconsider.
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Unread 01-20-2008, 04:36 PM
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Location: Suburban Dallas
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Here's another Texas tradition: Blue Bell ice cream.
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Unread 01-20-2008, 07:36 PM
 
Location: East Texas, with the Clan of the Cave Bear
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Here's another Texas tradition: Blue Bell ice cream.
Love that bluebell!


I've been promising these critters a trip to the creamery!

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Unread 01-26-2008, 07:26 PM
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Location: Suburban Dallas
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How about still another? I'll give you any of the 11,000-plus Texas historical markers in so many locations throughout our state.
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Unread 01-26-2008, 09:44 PM
 
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Unread 01-26-2008, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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When the bluebonnets were out we would take nice drives so we could see the flowers, also the Indian paintbrushes.

Of course we always had to have our pictures taken sitting in the flowers.

We also normally would go up to the cemetary where the flowers are interspersed with very old rose bushes to visit family graves.
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Unread 08-11-2012, 06:44 PM
 
Location: near San Antonio, TX
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i just thank God that i live in Texas
Amen!
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Unread 08-11-2012, 09:00 PM
 
Location: Dallas area, Texas
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These are ALL my favorites:
Complaining about the heat while bragging about having survived the summer of 1980 and now the summer of 2011

Watching the bats fly out from under the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin

Friday night football and marching bands (my son plays sax)

Greek Food Festival of Dallas ~ last weekend in September

The State Fair of Texas

Picking up pecans and then shelling them

Local Christmas parades with the marching bands and drill teams and trailers with scouts and Y-Guides all throwing candy

Candlelight at Dallas Heritage Village

Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo

Taunting friends and relatives that are complaining about shoveling snow with how warm it is here

North Texas Irish Festival

Texas Independence Day ~ We have yellow roses and a Texas flag decorated cake

Spring Festival of Roses at the Antique Rose Emporium in Independence; following the blue bonnet trail, having lunch at The Southern Flyer Diner located at the Brenham Airport, followed up with Blue Bell ice cream

Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games

A weekend on Galveston Island

Stopping to look at the Baylor Bears anytime we pass through Waco; buying kolaches in West; buying fruit cake in Corsicana; and looking for a Half Price Books at any town we visit

Drinking Dr Pepper and Shiner Bock; eating chili without beans; and searching for the best barbecue in the state
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Unread 08-11-2012, 09:09 PM
 
Location: texas
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Hmmmm......Favorite Texas tradition??? Does whipping OU's ass count
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