I'm a home maker, full-time mom, and my son's home school teacher. (For more on this subject, go to Isle of Skye Academy.) I call my husband DH (Dear Husband) and our son Triple.
We recently bought a new computer. I wanted to hook the old computer up in Trip's room and teach him on-line this year. ;~) I would never have to leave the computer at all that way. DH thinks this is a really bad idea. He is a very intelligent person.
Now that I am working on my own home page I have finally been removed
from my cyber-friend's "Home-pageless Page" that she set up for people
who have not, as yet, set up their own home pages. I think I was becoming
the oldest resident there and it was getting rather embarrassing.
I was beginning to look like the town's home-pageless bum! The female
cyber-Otis of the internet.
Although I know I will never have a page as fabulous as Sas (see
SGT MOM'S SITE ), I hope that
I will finally have something better than just a box to live in. :~)
All three of us are native Texans. All our parents, most of our grandparents and a few of our great grandparents were born in Texas. Except for the year my family lived in Colorado, all of us have always lived in Texas. My dh and I have lived in a number of small Texas towns, and for the last 11 years we have lived in Midland where Triple was born.
Midland is in West Texas and is a medium size city with a population of about 112,000. We have an average annual rainfall of approx. 15" so our part of the state is very desert like.
Our summer temperatures go above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 C) everyday for 2-3 weeks at a time. It is not unusual for the temp to reach 110 degrees F (43C). When the wind blows in the fall and spring, we have huge tumbleweeds (some as tall as 3 feet) blow into our yard. They can stack up against a wooden fence and actually push it over!
We live on the edge of tornado alley, but I am more afraid of the straight line winds we can get. At least with tornados, "You can see 'em comin'!"
Texas is the second largest state in the U.S. (275,416 square miles). The word "Texas" is from the native American word meaning, "Friends". This is one reason we are known as the "Friendship State."
Most of the trees we have around here are Mesquites and pump jacks .... Well, pump jacks aren't really trees. Then again, in West Texas neither are mesquites! The mesquites that grow around here are large thorny shrubs that grow strange looking beans. ( Bean recipes.) In Central and East Texas, they actually grow to tree size (because they get more rain there.) By the way, pump jacks are the funny looking things that pump oil out of the ground.
The wildlife we have include rattlesnakes (rattlers), which are very poisonous and occasionally come in our yard. We also have jackrabbits (they have huge ears that can stand straight up), roadrunners [or click here] (a bird that can run 15 miles per hour), armadillos, coyotes and skunks.
I'm sure I have told you more than you really want to hear about Texas, but I can't help but brag about my home state. You see, there is a state law that says you must be friendly, brag about Texas, and tell one Texas size tale every chance you get or they take away you Texas Birth Certificate and give you one from Magrathea, and no self respecting Texan would want that!
Hey, look what they gave me!!
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