Texas................

[Kelley (Texas)]

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
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
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

Like to read about History?
Santa Anna , Texas
Goliad , Texas
Alamo , Texas
Gun Barrel City , Texas
Robert Lee , Texas

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 city 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 n Shoot, Texas
Gun Barrell City , Texas
Hoop And Holler, Texas
Ding Dong, Texas and, of course,
Muleshoe , Texas

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 : 742 miles
2. Beaumont to Chicago : 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 US. 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. (Still is)
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 between Friendswood and 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'.
( 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?

 

[Royal]

Interesting facts buddy

 

[WillyP]

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[Micheal_R]

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[George-CT]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

how green and thick the vegetation appears, and how tall your trees grow. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Cupajo]

Hi Fred,

I don't know about today, but when I was a teen living IN Texas my Uncle hunted wolves from an airplane not far from Houston and my Dad saw a large timber wolf not far from where we lived near the coast.

Best to Ya Friend,

CJ

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

It is possible some of the wolves were what we call coydogs....the result of breeding between a coyote and dog. They are much larger than a coyote and some have the appearances of a wolf. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Cupajo]

Hi Fred,

Thats true.

Both of these men however were men who were pretty knowledgeable about the land and its critters.

Both these events happened in the fifties and there was a lot of wolf "baiting" going on (cost me two fine dogs!) in some areas along the coast then.

Perhaps that finished off the wolf for good.

As the Dad and my uncle are long gone now I have no way to check on the stories.

Regards,

CJ

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

as there are too many reports by other folks also seeing wolves back in those long gone days. Same with Black Bears...there are reports of one killed in Gonzales County in the 1920's. Unfortunately, I have never seen any of them...born too late. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Wayne in BC]

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[George-CT]

I'm sure with all the riding you do, that you have been to many of these.
You have some great places down there and plenty of land to do it in.

George-CT

Texas Song of I've been everywhere.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

There are still lots of places that I want to visit. I guess in a few months your riding season will be over due to winter weather, correct? Kelley (Texas)

 

[George-CT]

the sun sets, it drops fast. The last to nights I've come home from the club it was in the low 50's. Thats not real cold but you need to dress for it with leathers and gloves for sure. We will still get some nice days this month and some next for enjoyable day time riding.
After that, you will have to gear up for it. Nights will be freezing, and that to 50 or 60 mph wind chill and its cold. Yet, come Jan or Feb, if he pops above freezing, upper 40's, and the roads are snow free, folks will sneak out for and hour or so. All in what you get used to I guess. Just like your heat. That would not be enjoyable to me.

We only had 4 days here this summer that it made 90 or better. We pretty much lost June due to all the rain. I think 25 days of it were rain. In this senior age thing, I'm a little more picky about what type of weather I ride in. I've got all the leather gear in the saddle bags now when I go out. We were going up to Massachusetts tomorrow to a swap meet, but they are still forecasting off and on rain so I might pass on it. But Monday is looking good so far, and it might hit 70. I likes that warm sun beating on me when its like that.

The leaves are dropping now and I like that smell this time of year. This really is my favorite time of year. All the animals are nice and fat. Plenty of feed still around for all of them. Brooks are crystal clear. Night skys are really nice. Its dark where we are and the wife and I like to sit out on the porch and listen to the barn owls calling. They hunt the fields all around us and do a lot of calling out. I'm spitting wood now also. Not a lot each day but enough to get the job done before it gets real cold. They slit better in the cold but I like to quarter them all now and split again later with the electric splitter I have in the basement next to the wood stove. Thats a useful tool. I like small hot fires in the day time. Use less wood, no build up in the chimney. If I load it heavy, it just smolders as we build this for electric heat, with 6 inch walls, double insulating in all the rafters etc. Pretty easy to heat.

I bet your weather is getting close to perfect riding now. I could handle of winter of that....

George-CT

 

[TexasCharley]

Fred, you missed Los Angeles, Texas--& Tilden, the only town in the US to have been deliberately named for a presidential loser after he lost the race.

Incidentally, there are 3 natural lakes in Texas, but none of them is Caddo Lake. Lost Lake in the Big Bend country is only about 200 yds long by 50 yds wide, but it used to be famed for black bass. It's part of an underground river. The portion of the cavern in which it flowed collapsed aeons ago, exposing the lake. Espantosa Lake near Crystal City is a spring-fed resaca in an ancient bed of the Nueces River. It has an evil rep. 'Espantosa' means 'horribly haunted.' Sabine Lake is a landlocked fresh-water bay.

Caddo Lake was formed originally by the 1811 earthquake, when trees knocked down by the quake formed a logjam against a beaver dam over in Louisiana. It was about 6 or 7 times as big as the current Caddo Lake. It actually backed up all the way to Jefferson & there were shipping wharves in Jefferson. Shallow-draft steamboats--the lake was only about 5 or 6 feet deep in most places--hauled cotton from Jefferson to the logjam where it was picked up by a short line railroad & carried to Shreveport, where it was loaded on more steamboats, shipped down the Red to the Mississippi & on to New Orleans to be shipped overseas. At one time Jefferson was one of the largest & richest towns in Texas. Caddo Lake was drained in the 1870s, probably at the demand of Jay Gould. It was reformed as an artifical impoundment in the dam-building frenzy that followed the drought of the '50s, but the present Caddo Lake--New Caddo Lake--is a pale imitation of the original. .

Yes, there are black bears in Texas. I've personally seen 2, both in Palo Pinto County. I saw 1 from old US 80 just west of Palo Pinto 1 Saturday morning as I was in route to Breckinridge for a National Guard weekend, & the 2nd--about half-grown--on a slough leading into Palo Pinto Lake when I was deer hunting up there. There are also wolves, in particular red wolves, in the Big Thicket country--& apparently quite a lot of 'em. They were believed to be extinct in the state for at least half a century when a large number of them were found in the Big Thicket. As thick as that thing is, God only knows what else might be hiding out in there. I wouldn't want to bet there aren't any bears & timber wolves in the Big Thicket or the Big Bend country--or, for that matter, on the King Ranch. As big as that place is, you can ride it out for a lifetime & still never see it all. It's roughly 750,000 acres & much of it is brush country. A hunter parked his car in what he believed to be a fairly accessible spot about 1948. The car was finally found, purely by accident, in the 1960s.