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Texas my Texas, one more time.

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Texas Ranger

Have you ever looked at a map of the world?

Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it, they know what it is.

It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt, and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?

In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a
real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is a little bit of Texas in everyone.

Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting
for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom.

We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Davy Crockett, and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes.

John Wayne paid to do the movie The Alamo himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.

Texas is Sam Houston capturing Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana at San Jacinto.

Texas has huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett and Sam Houston National Forests.

Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend .

Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.

Texas is floating the rivers of the Hill Country on a hot summer day.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas .
Texas is beaches you can drive on and have many memorable bonfires with close friends.
Texas is that warm feeling you get when someone asks where you're from.
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.

Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork .
Texas is Mexican foods like nowhere else, not even Mexico .
Texas is chicken fried steak and world famous Bar-B-Q.

Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Mort Myerson in Dallas, The Ballpark in Arlington, the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, the American Airlines Center in Dallas, and the Astrodome (the Reliant Stadium now) in Houston.

Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey,  Ann Richards, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Gene Autry, Audie Murphy, Tommy Lee Jones, Waylon Jennings, Farrah Fawcett, Janis Joplin, Sandra Bullock, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Eva Longoria Parker, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Roger Staubach Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, Howard Hughes, George H. W. Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, George W . Bush, and let's not forget GEORGE STRAIT, the Big Bopper, Tex Ritter, George Jones, Clay Walker, Mark Chestnut, and Tracy Byrd to name ONLY a few.

Texas has great companies like Valero, Dell Computer, Texas Instruments, EDS and Compaq, Whataburger, Southwest Airlines, Bell Helicopter, and LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16Jet Fighter and the SF Fighter.

And Texas is NASA.

Texas is huge herds of cattle, beautiful horses and miles of crops. Texas is home to the world famous King Ranch.

Texas is home to the most amazing sunsets of gold over an empty field.

Texas is skies blackened with doves and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where towns and cities shut down to watch the local high school football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football at the new Cowboy Stadium, and for the Night
In Old San Antonio River Parade in San Antonio.

To drive across Texas is to drive 1/3 the way across the United States.  Texas has ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities.

If it isn't already in Texas, we probably don't need it.

No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas.

By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. That can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. Flag.
Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland , California , or Maine , and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Klein Oak High or anyplace else at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. You know why? Because its the only state that was a Republic before it became a state.

Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the
country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, DC. And we can divide our state into
five states at any time if we wanted to! We can become a republic again at any time the voters of
Texas choose, and we included these things as part of the deal when we came on.

That's the best part, right there.

Texas even has its own power grid!!
And don't even lie to yourself.
Did I mention the LIVE music capitol of the world?
If you are a REAL TEXAN, you won't even need to be told to pass this on..!

GOD BLESS TEXAS
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

timberking

Ranger, Texas has been good to me for the last 34 years since I moved from Arkansas.  I also want to think any success I have enjoyed has been a product of my hard work.  Retirement is not looking like part of the process but my heart still pines for the Diamond State.

Jeff

I was going to start merging all the texas my texas topic you started into one but decided it would take me all day to do it.  :-\
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Texas Ranger

Texas is a big state, Jeff, it do take time.  TimberKing, I am a Missouri boy, but Texas has my heart, body and soul.
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

Herb Brooks


Jeff

Quote from: Texas Ranger on January 12, 2015, 11:58:33 AM
Texas is a big state, Jeff, it do take time.  TimberKing, I am a Missouri boy, but Texas has my heart, body and soul.

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Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

WV Sawmiller

Ranger,

   If you really dislike the place that much you can always move to Boston or Connecticut or maybe even to the left coast to California.

   Actually, all states (and countries I have visited and worked in) have some real beauty and some areas that need work. We had 7 different foreign exchange students from overseas and I used to tell all of them to take the good things about America back with them and leave our problems here to us to fix.

    Glad you are proud of Texas. Just remember the rest of us are just as proud of our states too and justifiably so.
Howard Green
WM LT35HDG25(2015) , 2011 4WD F150 Ford Lariat PU, Kawasaki 650 ATV, Stihl 440 Chainsaw, homemade logging arch (w/custom built rear log dolly), JD 750 w/4' wide Bushhog brand FEL

Dad always said "You can shear a sheep a bunch of times but you can only skin him once

Qweaver

We lived for 30 years in Texas and loved it.  (except for the Hurricanes)  We will spend the rest of our lives in West Virginia and we will love that just as much.  We spent five years in Australia and loved that too.  Might have stayed there but missed our families too much.
So Many Toys...So Little Time  WM LT28 , 15 trailers, Case 450 Dozer, John Deere 110 TLB, Peterson WPF 10",  AIM Grapple, Kubota 2501 :D

47sawdust

I kinda like Michigan myself,never met anyone from Michigan I didn't like.
Mick
1997 WM Lt30 1999 WM twin blade edger Kubota L3750 Tajfun winchGood Health Work is my hobby.

Texas Ranger

Met some nice folks in Michigan, and all over.

Jeff, if it is worth doing once, it's worth doing twice  8)
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

Jeff

Quote from: Texas Ranger on January 12, 2015, 03:34:50 PM
Met some nice folks in Michigan, and all over.

Jeff, if it is worth doing once, it's worth doing twice  8)

or thirty times... ;)

I'll have to take on that creed for deletions. ;D
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

beenthere

Careful TR, or Jeff'll wave the magic Yooper wand at 'ye.   ;D
south central Wisconsin
It may be that my sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others

redprospector

I grew up in Texas, still have a lot of family there.
Yep, Texas is a good place to be from...currently about 300 miles from.  :D
1996 Timber King B-20 with 14' extension, Morgan Mini Scragg Mill, Fastline Band Scragg Mill (project), 1973 JD 440-b skidder, 2008 Bobcat T-320 with buckets, grapple, auger, Tushogg mulching head, etc., 2006 Fecon FTX-90L with Bull Hog 74SS head, 1994 Vermeer 1250 BC Chipper. A bunch of chainsaws.

Texas Ranger

The Texas Quote of the Day:

""There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing and prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place."

------ John Steinbeck
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

POSTON WIDEHEAD

Quote from: beenthere on January 12, 2015, 03:48:20 PM
Careful TR, or Jeff'll wave the magic Yooper wand at 'ye.   ;D

smiley_curtain_peek
The older I get I wish my body could Re-Gen.

Texas Ranger

He is snowed in with a stick up his nose, it will  be awhile. 8)
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

WDH

Quote from WDH, "There are an awful lot of goats in Texas". 
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POSTON WIDEHEAD

The older I get I wish my body could Re-Gen.

WDH

If the shoe fits........(old saying). 
Woodmizer LT40HDD35, John Deere 2155, Kubota M5-111, Kubota L2501, Nyle L53 Dehumidification Kiln, and a passion for all things with leafs, twigs, and bark.  hamsleyhardwood.com

POSTON WIDEHEAD

The older I get I wish my body could Re-Gen.

sandhills

They shoe goats these days?  I always thought it was just horses?  ;D

Texas Ranger

Most of the goats in Texas never get old enough for shoes, hit the pit young.   8)
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

POSTON WIDEHEAD

Quote from: Texas Ranger on February 10, 2015, 09:35:48 AM
Most of the goats in Texas never get old enough for shoes........

What about the Hosses ?  :D :D :D



 
The older I get I wish my body could Re-Gen.

ashlet925

TR, I see you are from Livingston. I am looking to be moving there or Trinity over the summer and have looked at a few lots already. Who is a good Forester in the area if I do go with a wooded lot I want to clear? Are you still an active Forester?

Texas Ranger

Yep, a slow, aging forester, but still working.  On clearing a lot, the probability is that a forester would cost to much to work with a land owner on a lot.  A matter of economics,  but some can provide recommendations for you with folks that do this kind of work, most of the time there is not enough timber on the ground to cover the costs of clearing.  Most forester will not work on 10  acres acres or so, back when I had a logger I trusted I could work on smaller tracts, he retired and I have found no replacement.

I can help (talk) if you come into the Livingston area, and welcome to the board..
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

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