Happy Thanksgiving

I am so thankful this holiday season.  Health, family and freedom, for however long it shall last, is the best I can ask for.

Adam and I are going to my sisters, as well as my brother and his wife.  I made a pecan pie, a chocolate pecan pie and pumpkin bread. 

Tomorrow I start making Christmas Candy ….AFTER THE WORKOUT!

Christmas 2011

James Mears

My Mothers Brother will be laid to rest on Monday. He was the last of the older generation.

God Bless Texas

thanks to my sister Elaine; This is a must read for all Texans, used-to-be Texans, adopted Texans or wanna-be Texans:

Just Texas

Pep, Texas 79353
Smiley, Texas 78159
Paradise, Texas 76073
Rainbow, Texas 76077
Sweet Home, Texas 77987
Comfort, Texas 78013
Friendship, Texas 76530

Love the sun?
Sun City, Texas 78628
Sunrise, Texas 76661
Sunset, Texas 76270
Sundown, Texas 79372
Sunray, Texas 79086
Sunny Side, Texas 77423

Want something to eat?
Bacon, Texas 76301
Noodle, Texas 79536
Oatmeal, Texas 78605
Turkey, Texas 79261
Trout, Texas 75789
Sugar Land, Texas 77479
Salty, Texas 76567
Rice, Texas 75155
Pearland, Texas 77581
Orange, Texas 77630
And top it off with:
Sweetwater, Texas 79556

Why travel to other cities?  Texas has them all!
Detroit, Texas 75436
Cleveland, Texas 75436
Colorado City, Texas 79512
Denver City, Texas 79323
Klondike, Texas 75448

Pittsburg, Texas 75686

Newark, Texas 76071
Nevada, Texas 75173
Memphis, Texas 79245
Miami, Texas 79059
Boston, Texas 75570
Santa Fe, Texas 77517
Tennessee Colony, Texas 75861
Reno, Texas 75462
Pasadena, Texas 77506
Columbus, Texas 78934

Feel like traveling outside the country?
Athens, Texas 75751
Canadian, Texas 79014
China , Texas 77613

Dublin, Texas 76446
Egypt, Texas 77436
Ireland, Texas 76538
Italy, Texas 76538
Turkey, Texas 79261
London, Texas 76854
New London, Texas 75682
Paris, Texas 75460
Palestine, Texas 75801

No need to travel to Washington D.C.
Whitehouse, Texas   75791

We even have a city named after our planet!
Earth, Texas   79031
We have a city named after our state:
Texas City, Texas   77590

Exhausted?
Energy, Texas   76452

Cold?
Blanket, Texas   76432
Winters,  Texas 79567

Like to read about History?
Santa Anna,  Texas 76878
Goliad,  Texas 77963
Alamo, Texas 78516
Gun Barrel City,  Texas 75156
Robert  Lee ,  Texas 76945

Need Office Supplies?
Staples,  Texas 78670

Want to go into outer space?
Venus, Texas   76084
Mars, Texas   79062

You guessed it. It’s on the state line.
Texline, Texas   79087

For the kids…
Kermit, Texas 79745
Elmo, Texas 75118
Nemo, Texas 76070
Tarzan, Texas 79783
Winnie, Texas 77665
Sylvester, Texas 79560

Other names in Texas, to make you smile…
Frognot, Texas 75424
Bigfoot, Texas 78005
Hogeye, Texas 75423
Cactus, Texas 79013
Notrees, Texas 79759
Best, Texas 76932
Veribest, Texas 76886
Kickapoo, Texas 75763
Dime Box, Texas 77853
Old Dime Box, Texas 77853
Telephone, Texas 75488
Telegraph, Texas 76883
Whiteface, Texas 79379
Twitty, Texas 79079

And last but not least, the Anti-Al Gore City
Kilgore, Texas 75662

And our favorites…
Cut and Shoot, Texas 77303
Gun Barrel City, Texas 75147
Ding Dong, Texas

West, Texas (it’s in Central Texas)

and, of course,
Muleshoe, Texas 79347

Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas
If someone in a Lowe’s store offers you assistance and they don’t work there, you may live in Texas;

If you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time,
You may live in Texas;

If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number,
you may live in Texas;

If ‘Vacation’ means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas;

If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas;

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Texas;
If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Texas;

If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Texas;

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph — you’re going 80 and everybody’s passing you, you may live in Texas;

If you find 60 degrees ‘a little chilly,’
you may live in Texas;

If you actually understand these jokes, and share them with all your Texas friends,
you DEFINITELY live in Texas.

Here are some little known, very interesting facts about  Texas:

1. Beaumont to El Paso: 829 miles
2. Beaumont to Nashville, TN: 770 miles
3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas.
4. World’s first rodeo was in  Pecos, July 4,1883.

5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water.
Destroyed by Hurricane Ike – 2008!

6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at  Rice University in Houston.

7.  Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America.

8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of  North America’s only remaining flock of whooping cranes.

9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.

10. The worst natural disaster in U.S. history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island.

11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was “Houston,” but the Space Center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.

12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger
than Rhode Island.

13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a U.S. rainfall record of 43″ in 24 hours in and around
Alvin in July of 1979.

14. Texas is the only state to enter the U.S. by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of  Texas to enter the Union) instead of by annexation.
This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same
height as the U.S. Flag, and may divide into 5 states.

15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated
to be 1500 years old.

16.  Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.

17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper.

18.  Texas has had six capital cities:
Washington-on-the Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco, West Columbia, and Austin.

19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the  U.S., which is taller than the Capitol   Building in  Washington, DC (by 7 feet).

20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in the world and it is taller
than the Washington Monument.

21. The name ‘Texas’ comes from
the Hasini Indian word ‘tejas’ meaning friends.
Tejas is not Spanish for Texas.

22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo.
An interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo
is they always have four babies. They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have
four males or four females.

23. The first domed stadium in the U.S. was the Astrodome in Houston .

Cowboy’s Ten Commandments posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie,  Texas :
(1) Just one God.
(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.
(3) No telling tales or gossipin’.
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.
(5) Put nothin’ before God.
(6) No foolin’ around with another fellow’s gal.
(7) No killin’.
(8) Watch yer mouth.
(9) Don’t take what ain’t yers.
(10) Don’t be hankerin’ for yer buddy’s stuff.

Y’all git all that?

“Lord, keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.”

Happy 4th of July

I normally don’t get into politics on my blog, but this one hit home with me.  Thanks Lonnie for sharing it.

Happy 4th of July!

Summer

I don’t care what the calendar says, it is officially summer in Texas.  I now have hot water running out of BOTH taps!

Thought for the day 6-15-10

It’s hard to be nostalgic when you can’t remember anything.

The graduate

Delanie with her Grandmothers!  We’re so proud!

the great grands

I know I am WAY too young for these beautiful children to be my great grand kids, but here they are from top to bottom:

Natalie, Angelica, Noah, Bella and Finn.  I’m blessed!