Posted: 12/15/2002 1:20:14 AM EDT
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Wow!! Judging by that drawing of Texas...it really is as flat as I've been told.  ...just tryin' to get a good, old-fashioned feud started in the new Hometown section. 
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Just having some fun with y'all. We love you Texans. You spend a bunch of money here in Colorado when you get tired of the same old flat views out of your windows and need a change.
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Hey, don't be upset with us because you were born with one leg 2" shorter then the other, and the only way you can stand up straight is on the side of a hill....
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Who's upset? I'll get rich from selling you flatlanders oxygen and tire chains at Loveland Pass this ski season.
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Hey Yankee.... We just moved from overcrowded, air-polluted, still-snows-in-June, Kalifornia-refugee-infested, nothing-grows-unless-you-say-Buddhist-prayers-over-it, rocky, barren, drought-ridden, on-fire-every-summer, liberal-overrun, no-goddamned-CCW-in-the-cities-where-you-need-it Colorado to the insanely pretty Eastern border of Texas. Here we can get a CCW without an eyebrow raised, we have gorgeous flora and fauna, you can actually *live* off the land, if you need to. Things grow here. There are brilliantly colored birds, and huge butterflies and hummingbirds. Everywhere. Flowers too. No slaving over them....they just friggin GROW. We don't need mountains.....we have *alligators* and cyprus filled prehistoric lakes, dripping in Spanish Moss. Looks like a Disney nature movie down here. Real estate prices are astoundingly cheap, cost of living is reasonable, folks are *friendly, and incredibly polite*. Crime is low, there are guns everywhere, (did I mention this is a Gun Friendly state?). I can get to Real Ocean Salt Water in just a few hours drive time, yet we are out of the hurricane zone. I have hot pink camellias blooming in December outside. Right now. It should get to 65 degrees today, they say. Texas is the finest place I have ever seen. *Friendly* people, gorgeous exotic Nature, history that makes your head spin, and FREEDOM. No one here messes with you over your personal freedoms. And that, is why we moved from Colorado to East Texas. Come on down. Check it out. |
Hannah......shhhhhhsh, don't be blabbin to the world how wonderful it is here in Texas, they'll be packin up and movin here in droves.  Where 'bouts in E. Texas did ya move to, sounds like your up around Caddo Lake, our farm is East of Nacogdoches. Heres' a pic off Dad's back porch  Mike |
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Good guess! Yes, we are but a few miles from Caddo Lake. We are 15 miles from the Louisiana border, in Marshall, Texas. This is our home here: www.threeoaks-marshall.com/index.html I have never lived so well, or been anywhere more beautiful than where we are now. |
Hannah. I'm glad that you enjoy Texas. 
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Since I graduated from college, I've lived in Texas longer than any other state (also lived in Illinois (home state), Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Wisconsin). I love it. Drawbacks? If you live in Houston or the DFW area (my current locale), the air quality is the sh*ts. Given my druthers, I'd rather be in the Hill Country or East Texas. Lots of VFR flying days, lots of places to shoot, CHL, sweet tea, 2 days drive from nearly everywhere (except across Texas itself...that takes a week heh)...love it. |
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Thanks for the invite, Hannah. I'd come on down there, but I think at this point, they'd beat the hell out of me at the border. Seriously, I haven't met a Texan yet that I didn't like. Good people. But, I still have hope for Colorado. Maybe not for the I-25 corridor, but the rest of the state. I'm soon to move out of the Denver-metro area and up to the western slope (Gypsum), where the sight of a gun doesn't warrant a spot on the evening news. I hope my post here isn't taken the wrong way. Just having a little fun with y'all. 
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Good to hear, 82ndAbn. Texas citizenship? That does sound kind of tempting.... Let's see...Texas or the western slope... I know I must have a coin around here somewhere... ... .. Aww the hell with it. If you can promise me safe passage across the border, I'll be down there ASAP!! Save me a good seat.
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You ask me what I like about Texas? I tell you it's the wide open spaces! It's everything between the Sabine and the Rio Grande. It's the Llano Estacado, It's the Brazos and the Colorado; It’s the Spirit of the people down here who share this land! It's another burrito, It's a cold Lone Star in my hand It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys, Play some Sons of the Mother Lovin’ Bunkhouse Band! You ask me what I like about Texas It's the big timber round Nacadoches It's driving El Camino Real into San Antone It's the Riverwalk and Mi Tierra Dancing to the Cotton-eyed Joe It's stories of the Menger Hotel and the Alamo! Hey, you ask me what I like about Texas It's Blue Bonnets and Indian paint brushes Swimming in the sacred waters of Barton Springs It's body surfing on the Frio It's Saturday night in Del Rio! Driving across the border for some cultural exchange! It's another burrito, It's a cold Lone Star in my hand! It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys, Play some Sons of the Mother Lovin’ Bunkhouse Band! ...The Geezinslaw Brothers' Band |
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...or maybe Cooder Graw "Llano Estacado" sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?r=20.asx&link=zo252obxk1p49xyuv9qhn18 "I was born on the Llano Estacado I was raised here in this land They tell me it's a loud country I'm gonna stay here and make it as loud as I can. I'd never say I'm a brand new kind of outlaw, but I'm doing the same old kind of crime. I've been playing behind all the bars in Texas that's the only place I care to do my time." |
See, even a Texan can't get through a post about his own state without mentioning the great state of Colorado. Mountains? Yep, we got 'em Plains? Yep, we got 'em Oxygen? Hell, we've got plenty to suit us just fine, thank you. How're you doing up here? Hello? HELLO? ...crap...We've got another flatlander code blue. Repeat, we've got another flatlander code blue. Cleanup on aisle 3. ..just trying to keep this little friendly feud alive.
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We're really not much into golf, that's an oat patch there just to the left of the Cox feeder (setting right in pines) and our 800 yard range. Some evenings deer feed at the feeder while we're shooting on the range, BTW that's the viewing feeder, anyone taking a deer from there answers to my Dad, not a position ya'd want to be in. We spend a bit to keep the deer population up and have taken a few very nice bucks over the last few years from this place which has been in the family since the mid-1800s. Mike |
My house on the Rio Grande is at 9000 feet. How's yours? |
9000 feet from what? Just having a little fun, Arock. I'm not trying to get anybody pissed off On a serious note, I thought that the highest point in Texas is Guadalupe Peak at nearly 9000 feet (8800 feet ASL, or so). Am I mistaken? edit: But to answer your question, my current residence is approximately 5600' ASL. When I move up to the western slope, I'll be about 700 feet further up (6300' ASL, approx.) |
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by Yankee: 9000 feet from what? Just having a little fun, Arock. I'm not trying to get anybody pissed off On a serious note, I thought that the highest point in Texas is Guadalupe Peak at nearly 9000 feet (8800 feet ASL, or so). Am I mistaken? FWIW, (and since we're havin fun here) when my ancestors came to Texas the highest peak in the state was this one:  It's Mt. Elbert now residing in Leadville, CO. formerly .............. drum roll please.... TEXAS. Mike PS - forgot to say it's 14,433 feet. |
Maybe I should have added the winky smilie instead. Around here, western slope-semi desert, if you got that much green and open space and trees you got a golf course. |
9000 ft ASL. Mineral County. Creede. Colorado. You know, that place Texas owns. |
No offence taken. You have to remember our national sport here is braggin' about Texas You just livewn up our nites like this. Keep fireing... fullclip |
Thanks fullclip. But I think for the time being I'll just bow out not-so-gracefully. |
