Fw: Texas Facts

[Anne]

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> These were fun. I have inserted commentary.
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> --Amanda
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> Subject: Fwd: Fw: Texas Facts
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> 
> > Facts you know in Texas:
>> > All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, 
vegetable,
> grain, insect or animal.
> 
> Let's see. Poteet Strawberry Festival. Noonday Sweet Onion Festival.
> Floresville Peanut Festival. Hah! Wait! The Czilispiel is none of 
the above!
> Hah! But mostly, this is true.
 
Amanda, this post of yours popped up when I searched the archives 
for "owl species" (not sure why)...just wanted to tell you that you 
forgot the Mud Dauber Festival in Luckenbach on March 22 (yes, next 
Saturday :-) The mud dauber is a type of wasp that returns to the 
Texas hill country every spring, sort of the insect version of those 
swallows that return to Capistrano. I actually know people who are 
planning to attend the Mud Dauber Festival next weekend and catch 
some great music at the same time (see http://www.luckenbachtexas.com 
for more MDF details).

> > 15. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, Summer, Still 
summer, and
> Christmas.
>
I've spent a little bit of time in Texas, mostly in San Antonio, at 
times ranging from early February (when the low was about 40 degrees) 
through April (85 degrees) to late August (when it didn't go below 90 
any of the 10 days I was there). I never saw "Christmas" in Texas, 
but it did kind of seem like summer or almost summer every time I was 
there.

  > 
> > 23. You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends 
from
> Texas.
> 
> Or to your friends all over everywhere. If you read this far, you 
are
> friends indeed, or you have Texan relatives and understand.
> 
>

I have tons of friends in Texas (being a fan of lots of different 
Texas musicians). And my daughter was born there! So I love Texas 
jokes, and people, and food, and music, and ....

Anne U
(mostly still living in Wisconsin because I don't like Texas weather!)