OMG, I just went to the store and found seeds for RED bluebonnets! Not Indian paintbrush, but bluebonnets--Alamo something or other!

We bought a packet and will try our horticultural best to get them to grow, although all we've been able to produce here was one scrawny little plant with a 3" flower head. Arghhh--and me with that doctorate in horticulture....it's got to be the bacteria in the Hill Country soil that makes 'em grow.

Hey y'all... I was walking through Foley's at the Mall of Louisiana (Baton Rouge) and well...out of the corner of my eye I saw these Texas flags... I was like what the hey?! They had a bunch of purses with Texas flags, It was definetly a big hit back at the dorm. My friends were like you would have that purse... It's pretty cool though. That's why I love selling back books, i get to buy things I really don't need : )

Best place in Houston to get a burger: Good Company Mexican Resturant.. (yeah, sounds weird but it's sooooooooooooooooo gooooooooooood...) First place I went when I got back...

TEXAS: We're bigger than France.


Texas Bound Train
by Cory Morrow

Well I waited all night by the railroad tracks
Hoping that train would come soon
I got two more smokes half a bottle of scotch
Lord I ain’t got too much to lose

I toss slop at a local truck stop
In a town just out of Pittsburgh, PA
I make two twenty five but I still ain’t alive
Lord I need a Texas bound train

Take me I want to go
I want to see where that red river flows
Steel wheels burnin’ into the night
Take this cowboy home on a midnight ride

It’s a long trip down them railroad tracks
To Texas I’ve never seen
I’ve heard stories of toil about old men and their oil
And how they lost their riches and dreams

The angels came down in my dreams last night
While outside it was stormin’ rain
There was a rhythm of drops beatin’ on the rooftops
And the angels sang of a train
They sang you gotta find a Texas bound train

Take me I want to go
I want to see where that red river flows
Steel wheels burnin’ into the night
Take this cowboy home on a midnight ride

Y'all can go to hell; I'm a goin' to Texas. --Davy Crockett
(who is my great-great-great-granduncle, by the way!)


Red and Rio Grande
by Doug Supernaw

One lone star waving in the wind
A longhorn standing proud behind a rusty barbed wire fence
Cowboy hats and hearts that never bend
I was born and raised a Texan and will be 'til the end

As I travel down that blue bonnet highway
I'm thankful I was born a lucky man
And I know that I will live and die my own way
Somewhere between the Red and Rio Grande

Two old boots, dusty, worn, and stained
By the oilfields and the ranches and the blood that fell like rain
Heroes hearts that fought to change our name
From Tejas to Texas where the Lone Star proudly waves

As I travel down that blue bonnet highway
I'm thankful I was born a lucky man
And I know that I will live and die my own way
Somewhere between the Red and Rio Grande


That song literally makes me cry every time I hear it...

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus. --Lee Trevino


Texas Women
by Hank Williams Jr.

I’ve got some fond memories of San Angelo
And I’ve seen some beauty queens in El Paso
But the best lookin’ women that I’ve ever seen
Have all been in Texas, and all wearin’ jeans

I’m a country plowboy, not a urban cowboy
And I don’t ride bulls- but I have fought some men
Drive a pickup truck, trust in God and luck
And I live to love Texas women

I thought I’d seen beauty in far away places
'Til I looked upon those Houston faces
Spent Hollywood nights up in Beverly Hills
But they weren’t nothin’ like one night down in Brownsville

I’m a country plowboy, not a urban cowboy
And I don’t ride bulls- but I have fought some men
Drive a pickup truck, trust in God and luck
And I live to love Texas women

I’m a pretty fair judge of the opposite sex
And I ain’t seen nothin’ that will touch 'em yet
They may be from Waco or out in Lampasas
But one thing about it they all come from Texas

I’m a country plowboy, not a urban cowboy
And I don’t ride bulls- but I have fought some men
Drive a pickup truck, trust in God and luck
And I live to love Texas women

I’m an Oiler fan not a soccer man
And my arms are red and so is my blood
And they make it boil with that soft Texas drawl
And I love 'em all Texas women

I converted many Yankees to the ways of Texas while attending law school at Notre Dame. After they came and visited me here in Austin, they all want to live here.

And when I lived in London for a year, I was delighted to find there was a Texas Embassy restaurant directly across from school building in Trafalgar Square - and the original Texas embassy itself is still there, too!

see.....i've never had anything but not-so-super experiences with tx..........i am failing to see the hype.........hopefully, though, my bad times are just funky coincidences.....obviously there's something to it. :)

i will say one thing about it, though.....you don't see too many ppl from too many other states with this much pride. i love AL and i love KY (to a point....;) ), but it ain't as deep for me as it is with y'all!

HEY! Dont you be messin with Texas! I was born there! Love ya giiirl!

Although, I will be a Rocky Top gal all my life!

girl! i don't mess with texass! SOOOO JUS PLAYIN! I WOULD NEVER DISRESPECT THE TX THREAD/GCERS LIKE THAT, YO'S! (just ivory....bwahaha!)

and i just noticed your new sig addition.....LMFAO!!!

**Texas is great i am sure....please don't flame me b/c it is late, i am tired, and was pickin on my dawg......i skeered(!!) of the Texan wrath........ :eek: don't hate me like i'm a dixie chick, please! -lol- dubya came from TX....i gots the mad love for that reason alone!

/hijack and kissin TX ass! ;)

Yay for Georgia!! Sorry love my state!!

zntke,

While Georgia is a fellow southern state...this is the, "I like TEXAS" thread.

Take your shameless self-promotions elsewhere ;)

Kitso
KS 361 times i sang at chilifest that "the boys from Oklahoma roll their joints all wrong"

C'mon now! This is the "I love TEXAS thread." It has nothing to do with Georgia, so be gone with your nonsense. :p

is there any way to delete the obselete thread?

because i lived in Georgia for 6 miserable(well, the 2 that I was in college were okay) years. . .and nothing. . .compares to the GREAT STATE OF TEXAS!!

delete which thread?

So are you trying to say that I'm not allowed to post in this thread about how much I love Boston?? ;) :p ;)