Fourth of July

I don't know..I just read that Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio were all named in the Top Ten Cities in the US.. I think there's more to it than The Cowboys.

As for holiday drinking...I had one drink with dinner and it put me under..it must be my medication or I'm getting old.

I'd like to see that. I guess the closest you can get for now is the Madden 2001 game.

And Dim's right Texas has 4 of the top cities, they also have some of the largest markets outside of NY and LA in the nation.

Alot of dot coms and other siliicon valley co.s are moving to the Austin, DFW and Houston area. Cause no power problems, few days of snow, and the only thing DFW and Austin has for natural disastors is tornados, and those are rare. Even in tornado alley (from Texas to Nebraska)

Yes, Jameous, keep plugging Texas. 🙄 😛

Well, I may have to find a job in Austin or DFW soon.

"There's nothing left for me here."

But unlike Luke I still have family there.

Big place, Texas.

Next stop on the journey?

🙄 🙄 🙄 Jameous, do you really want to move to the big city? It's so nice where you are. Of course, eating is better when you have a better paying job. 😄 😄

If Sam Houston wanted to be part of the States, then who are we to argue with him?

By the end of the century I guess.

I'm sure they do that a little faster than that.

Probably. Well, remember the Alamo, either way.

Why?

As for Sam Houston, they argued with him about that and alot of Texans have regretted it ever sence.

At The Alamo 118 Texans (mostly from other states and from Mexico not alot of actual folks that had lived here before the war) took on one of the largest standing armys (Mexico) and fought off sevevral divisions of that army for 13 days. They ended with a kill ratio of over 20 to one. Before They were rushed from all sides.

That battle was used as a rally cry for the Texans in the rest of the War. But it was unnecessary because the Mexicans had already massacared innocent civilans at Goliad and executed the captured troops at Fannin several months before.

So if Travis and Bowie had listened to Sam Houston and SF Austin and left the Alamo before the Mexicans got there, we would say remember Goliad. Bowie and Travis would have survived and Crockett might have been elected President of the US after the Texas war. If that had happened he would have forgivin Texas' war debt And Texas would be its own Republic.

And Keo, Ive always lived in a town of at least 25,000. The nicest place I ever lived scenery wise was in east Texas at the Stephen F. Austin University in the middle of the Sam Houston national forest. But I like being able to go to other stores than Wal-Mart and Downtown hardware stores. (Quaint as they may be)

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😄 Some towns of 25,000 are small and quaint when measured against places like Dallas itself. When we lived on a farm in south central Missouri, we lived 3 miles from town, a bustling town of 80 people, and that included all the dogs, cats, and deceased in the cemetery. 🙄 now, that's small.

Yep there are several of those kinds of towns in east Texas. They are kinda nice, but theres nothing to do for a night life (Except for cow tipping) and its hard to find anything new. Those towns are always 5-10 years behind the times. There are also those towns all over Texas but thats the way it is with all the States in general.

there is no night life in those tiny towns; you hafta make your own night life, called house parties. They roll up the sidewalks at dusk. 😄

So when is Texas planning to be an independent country again?

This just turned into the Texas Tourist Thread. 🙄

Sorry, I kept getting asked questions.

How about this... Last night we blew up a bunch of fireworks that were left over from the 4th.

It was a blast! (Pun intended) we shot them off for 3-4 hours. My friend had a bunch left over and he treated us to them.

A bunch? For four hours????? Must have been a BIG bunch.

We started to go to the fireworks at the fairgrounds here, but they must have started them early because of bad weather we were having and they were already going up as we were headed in, so we just pulled off the edge of the road and watched from a distance. It was very humid and the smoke hung in the air. After a while you could hardly see them anymore. Rather frustrating.