Re: taxes and the best place to vegetable garden?

On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:29:58 -0800, Jan Flora <snowshoe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


>You also have ticks, chiggers, rattles****s, fire ants, tarantulas, 
>scorpions, cactus and the Texas State Legislature. OTOH, you have great 
>food and some of the best musicians in the world. And you had Ann 
>Richards and Molly Ivins, both godesses.

I was gonna add Molly when I started reading, so I'll settle for
another of my favorite *characters* and aTexan.

Kinky Friedman.  I love the irreverant SOB.

>Have you read the poem called "Hell in Texas"? It's about the devil 
>looking for a place for a hell. He visited Texas and said it's too dry 
>for a hell. I think Don Edwards (a Texan) recorded it as a song.
>
>Picking on Texas gives us a great deal of pleasure, because my FIL and 
>most of the other homesteaders out here all came from Texas. All of 
>their kids speak with West Texas accents, even though none of them have 
>ever set foot in that great state.

"The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'"
~~Kinky Friedman   ;-)
 
>
>   Jan

-- 
Charlie

"I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy
childhood is the worst possible preparation for life."
                          ~~Kinky Friedman