| Author | |
TxTrish
Forum Pro
Joined: Oct 23 2005
Location: Pennsylvania
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 321
|
| Posted: Jan 13 2010 at 12:28pm | IP Logged
|
 |
|
TEXAS
TxTrish/deep in exile..............
__________________
+JMJ+
Gabrielle20, Deavon18, Elizabeth12, Mary10, Greg8
and a grandson!
My Blog
"Duty before everything, even something holy"
St.Padre Pio
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Nina Murphy
Forum All-Star
Joined: May 18 2006
Location: California
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1546
|
| Posted: Jan 13 2010 at 2:16pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
TxTrish wrote:
TEXAS
TxTrish/deep in exile.............. |
|
|
Oh my GOSH, I know SO many people who have expressed NEEDING to go back to Texas. WHAT is it about Texas???  Do share!
__________________
God bless,
~~Nina
mother of 9 on earth,
and 2 yet-to-be-met
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
TxTrish
Forum Pro
Joined: Oct 23 2005
Location: Pennsylvania
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 321
|
| Posted: Jan 13 2010 at 7:17pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
You, know....
I don't even know where to begin - it is everything.
Listening to the country legends station and counting the days.
 in FL
I’ve traveled all over the world, but I don’t think there is any place better than Texas. - Oilwell firefighter Red Adair
“Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win the war.”
General George S. Patton
“Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."
George W. Bush
“Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.”
Alistair Cooke
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?”
P. J. O'Rourke quotes
Texas is . . .
" . . . a blend of valor and swagger."
-- Carl Sandburg, poet
"Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word."
--John Steinbeck, author
"Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas!
-- Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas
"I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world." -- Broadway choreographer and Wichita Falls native
-- Tommy Tune
"Nor is it the habit of Texans to look back. We have tradition of looking forward and not looking back to see where we have been or who is following us."
-- President Lyndon Johnson
"What Texans can dream, Texans can do."
-- President: George Walker Bush
Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts - John Steinbeck, Travels With Charlie, 1962
__________________
+JMJ+
Gabrielle20, Deavon18, Elizabeth12, Mary10, Greg8
and a grandson!
My Blog
"Duty before everything, even something holy"
St.Padre Pio
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
JodieLyn
Forum Moderator
Joined: Sept 06 2006
Location: Oregon
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 12234
|
| Posted: Jan 13 2010 at 7:57pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
You know.. it's like Texas is the embodiement of the same sort of spirit that permiates all the back woods, hill billy, mountain men areas in all the states and that most states tend to be trying to forget.
Too bad it doesn't have a better climate 
__________________
Jodie, wife to Dave
G-18, B-17, G-15, G-14, B-13, B-11, G-9, B-7, B-5, B-4
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-Sir Walter Scott
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Nina Murphy
Forum All-Star
Joined: May 18 2006
Location: California
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1546
|
| Posted: Jan 13 2010 at 8:19pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
TRISH, I LOVE IT!!! AWESOME.
(Thank you. This one should be archived in a special way.  )
__________________
God bless,
~~Nina
mother of 9 on earth,
and 2 yet-to-be-met
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Paula in MN
Forum All-Star
Joined: Nov 25 2006
Location: Minnesota
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 4064
|
| Posted: Jan 13 2010 at 8:51pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
We want our own island. Sadly, it has nothing to do with weather or the ocean. We just want to be able to make our own decisions without interference from other people.
__________________
 Paula
A Catholic Harvest
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
teamommy
Forum Newbie
Joined: Dec 03 2009
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 30
|
| Posted: Jan 15 2010 at 12:43am | IP Logged
|
|
|
I am truly happy living where we do, in Oregon's beautiful Willamette Valley. We own a farm, and so I do not forsee us ever moving. However, if I could snap my fingers and make this happen, I would live where we do for half of the year (the farm season half) and then spend the second half of the year in Perugia, Italy.I lived there as a child, and love it there! As I said earlier, we are unlikely to ever move, and I have always envied people who do get to move. The fun of exploring a new location! Setting up a new home! Meeting new people!
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
SusanJ
Forum All-Star
Joined: May 25 2007
Location: New Jersey
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1347
|
| Posted: Jan 15 2010 at 7:57am | IP Logged
|
|
|
I find it very interesting that all you PNW ladies seem the most satisfied with where you live right now. Makes me want to come visit even more!
__________________
Mom to Joseph-8, Margaret-6, William-4, Gregory-2, and new little one due 11/1
Life Together
[URL=http://thejohnstonkids.blogspot.com]The Kids' Blog[/UR
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
|
|
Forum Locked) 
4Real Forums : Tea and Conversation
Topic: If you could pick where you lived..
