God Bless Texas

I have been known to tease my Texas neighbors. 

 

Being a native New Mexican, I was raised to dislike Texas. 

 

I recall in Las Cruces recently when the restuaruant Texas Roadhouse was built.  They flew a Texas flag, the newspaper was filled with complaints.  "How dare they fly a Texas flag in New Mexico?  We haven't been part of them for over a 100 years!"  The manager then flew a NM flag, and the all the newcomers said "you New Mexicans are crazy, every other Texas Roadhouse flies a texas flag, bring it back."  The manager gave up and flew a plain white flag.  (Now I think it proudly displays both.)  I had overheard a newcomeer talking about it, and they seemed really concerned, instead of realizing that for most of us, it is a friendly rivalry, nothing more.  We tease them about their big hair, big belt buckles and big trucks, they tease us about being poor and eating beans.  I don't really dislike Texans, I just have to pretend I do for state pride, do you understand?

 

Although I still wish my NMSU Aggies would have kicked Texas butt but Friday night, but I am not bitter, okay? I was hoping we could have some taco meat, or shoot an insane deer, understand?   We kept up with them until the last few minutes, and that made me proud.

 

Friday afternoon I was listening to the local country station while I was busy painting.  (Which is taking forever by the way, who knew painting in a trailer house would be so much damn work.  You have to sand, prime, paint, blah, blah to that stupid wallboard they use after I got the bedrooms done I started throwing joint compound mixed with paint on the walls, less prep and it doesn't take two  damn coats to cover the walls!)  But I digress, I heard several Texas oriented songs including God Bless Texas.  Then when I went to Walmart to get more supplies, I noticed quite a few Texans, loading up their Suburbans and Tahoes with supplies before heading to Cloudcroft for Spring Break.  I paid attention to the heavier traffic on my way home and noticed the cars mostly had white (TX) plates.  This is common during hunting season, school holidays, and the summer.  While God did bless Texas, he did not bless them with mountains.  He planted them firmly in New Mexico, but gave them visitation rights.

 

In any case I got back to slathering painted mud on my walls, or more importantly, prepping them for that.  I let the boys help me rip out some of the moulding and put some mud on the cracks.  When that started to get out of hand, I decided to clean up and head back to moms.

Z said he wanted to walk home.  I told him No, and to wait, he went out the door to play.  I swear it couldn' t  have been more than minute while I finished rinsing the putty knife, but he was no where to be seen when I walked outside.  I got frantic.  I couldn't see him in the pasture or on the path we usually walk by the watertower.  I threw Max in the car and was started  looking for him.  Did he head for the pasture? the highway?  How could he got of sight so fast?  I found him on the next road by my mom's house.  Two trucks were stopped on the shoulder and a saw Z and a lady walking with him.  Of course I was excited and she told me that she had seen him walking along the highway and thought he looked to little to do that and stopped.  He told her I was busy working and he was walking to Nonies house.  She said she didn't know where Nonie lived but she was going to walk with him.  I was trying to explain how we walk back and forth all the time but not near the highway and she laughed and said she had 4 kids, she understood.  I explained to my son very excitedly about how he was never ever to go near that highway again.  (Which by the way would be the longest route between houses.)  Talked to my dad about this gate he was going to get so the kids could transvers the pasture eaiser which is far away from the highway!  Then I colored my hair, strangely it had a big shock of gray after that!

 

Did I mention those trucks had Texas plates.  See it's a friendly rivalry, we still help neighbors in need.

 

God Bless Texas.