~ Toy's Texas ~

 

 



Howdy Friends!

    I know everyone thinks where they're born is the only place in the world.

    I'm no different, and I thank God everyday for the privlege of being a 100% Texan!
    You may have heard many things about Texas.

    Some true and some not quite so true. It's true, we do love to brag about our state.
    Some Texans do believe it is a country unto itself!

    We consider ourselves to be right friendly folks. We welcome every opportunity to tell
    you the virtues of being a Texan, and invite you to come for a visit any chance you get!

    Texas has much to offer.

       When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, "Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?" They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.

       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 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'll get it maybe after a second, but who else would? Even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?

       In every man, woman and child on this little rock the Good Lord put us on, here is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride in a pickup. There is some bit of Texas in everyone. Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.

       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 Bowie 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 himself.That is the Spirit of Texas.

       Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto. Texas is Juneteenth and Texas Independence Day. Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest. Texas is breathtaking mountains in Big Bend. Texas is shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas. Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork. Texas is Mexican food like nowhere in the world, even Mexico. Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards and the Bass Hall. Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson and Buddy Holly, Earl Campbell and Nolan Ryan, Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey, Sam Rayburn and George Bush and President George W. Bush.

       Texas is great companies like Dell Computer and Compaq. Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops. Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer and our state flower, the Bluebonnet. Texas is a place where cities shut down for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and NIOSA River Parade in San Antonio. Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and, prairies, and modern cities. If it isn't in Texas, you 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, or California, or Maine, and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height--20 feet. Do you know why? Because we place being a Texan 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, D.C.We included these things in as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part right there. WHEN WE CAME ON. Texas was its own country. The Republic of Texas. Every time I think of that I tear up. It makes you proud to be a Texan.

       Author Unknown

    Most of us have great sense of humors, too.
    To prove this point, let me share how to tell if you're a true 100% Texan or at least fortunate enough to meet one of us! :-)

You Are 100% Texan if . . . .


 You could eat a Chicken Fried Steak 3 times a day - 7 days a week! Nummy!!

 You get a feeling your day's not complete if you haven't said,
"God Bless Texas" at least 5 times in your day!

 You don't want your babies to grow up to be Cowboys . . .
unless they look like George Strait, of course.

 You can recall hot summers by the year they happened
easier than you can remember your mother's birthday.

 A bad traffic jam involves two cars staring each other down at a four-way stop, each determined to be the most polite and let the other one go first.

 You know that the true value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to the door, but by the availability of shade.

 When you hear a tornado siren, you go out and look for a funnel.

 A Mercedes Benz is not a status symbol. A Ford F350 4x4 is!

 You know that "y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural.

We're mighty proud of our state and don't take kindly to anybody who litters it.
That's why you'll see this sign in lots of places.

Most of all, we are proud to be "God Loving" folks, who put Him first!

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Thank you kindly for the visit!
Please come back anytime.


We will never forget.
God Bless America