{"id":475,"date":"2012-04-24T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/04\/3-12-time-outs-tuesday-12-the-texas-edition.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:49:00","slug":"3-12-time-outs-tuesday-12-the-texas-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/04\/3-12-time-outs-tuesday-12-the-texas-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"3 1\/2 Time Outs Tuesday #12 – The Texas Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>\n\n\n\n
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Doing my best to help LarryD <\/a>take over the internet one meme at a time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It\u2019s been almost a year since we returned to my beloved Texas. There really is no place on Earth which sits so softly on the heart.\u00a0 Oh, Texas, how I love thee.\u00a0 Let me begin to count the ways:<\/p>\n

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March burst into color this year and my heart filled with joy.\u00a0 It was time for bluebonnets. I can\u2019t tell you how much I love these flowers or how the tiny hats lined up on each stem can make me smile.<\/p>\n

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For a few weeks ever spring, they burst into bloom and whole fields are buried under a beauteous blanket of blue.<\/p>\n

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Bluebonnets and their cheerful friend Indian Paintbrush will always be Springtime to me.<\/p>\n

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They line the highways and quiet roads and greet us wherever we go.<\/p>\n

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And they bring on the annual pilgrimage of parents to the sides of roads all over the state, where they plunk their babies down amidst the flowers and the road noise to take the traditional pictures which cover every grandmother\u2019s fridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I guarantee you that this baby\u2019s hair is being blown around by a passing 18-wheeler.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Thank goodness for the tortilla lady in the grocery store.\u00a0 I almost clicked my heels with glee the day I walked in to buy a gallon of milk and found the tortilla lady making them by hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Warm, light, and flaky, there is no way to describe the alleluia moment of a fresh hand made tortilla.\u00a0 The fact that I can buy them any time I want and they\u2019re still warm when I get them home?\u00a0\u00a0 As close to a religious experience as I can have outside of church.<\/p>\n

Just wondering, is it wrong to kiss the tortilla lady?\u00a0 She\u2019s all kinds of awesome to me.<\/p>\n

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Horny toads!<\/p>\n

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I love these guys!\u00a0 My older brother and I used to catch them at my grandparents\u2019 farm.\u00a0 We quickly learned their defense mechanism of spitting blood from their eyes. It wasn\u2019t much after that when we learned that if you rub their heads in the right places you can make<\/i> them spit blood from their eyes.\u00a0 Wanna hear your brother squeal like a girl? Have a lizard spit eye blood at him.\u00a0 (It shoots out crazy far.\u00a0 We\u2019re probably the reason these fellas are nearly on the endangered list.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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You\u2019d better watch it or I\u2019ll shoot eye blood on you!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Isn\u2019t he cute?\u00a0 I\u2019d sure love to find one and bring him home with me.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure I could make my own kids squeal, too.<\/p>\n

3 1\/2.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

Cowboys.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Because every now and again you\u2019re lucky enough to get to mosey along behind them\u2026..<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doing my best to help LarryD take over the internet one meme at a time. It\u2019s been almost a year since we returned to my beloved Texas. There really is no place on Earth which sits so softly on the heart.\u00a0 Oh, Texas, how I love thee.\u00a0 Let me begin to count the ways: 1.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n3 1\/2 Time Outs Tuesday #12 - The Texas Edition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Doing my best to help LarryD take over the internet one meme at a time.It's been almost a year since we returned to my beloved Texas. 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