weird things you might not know about my state
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Wow, that was a bundle of
Wow, that was a bundle of information that I didn't know. Well, I knew about the alligators but the vultures.
Okay, here is what I know about the area where I live in California. Alameda must have the market cornered on squirrels, San Francisco is the only other city that I have seen so many. We have rac coons, which I have seen, skunks, which I have smelled, possums and lots and lots of spiders. Funny thing is that I lived in Suisun before and it was and is much more rural and I never saw the quantity of these animals that I have here. We did have lots of water birds and one crane in particular would steal the koi and gold fish from my mom's pond. I remember buying her two replacement koi which I named Sushi and Teriyaki. Well named, they didn't last a week, before becoming dinner for the crane. At one of our big family parties, when there had been no fish in the pond for months, we all saw a big new koi. No one would own up to having brought it and putting it in the pond. I was always thought to be the culprit but it wasn't me. Whoever did it certainly caused a forever mystery in the family. I wished I had thought of it, but I think that the crane brought one back. LOL Suisun also had coyotes, foxes, and lots of other critters and I did see those on occasion. There was even a bear that long ago appeared in downtown Vacaville and there have been sightings of mountain lions.
So everyone, what type of wildlife do you have in your area? Animal, not night clubs. That will be a topic for another day.
Thanks for this thread, shy.
Stef0 -
Texasfauxma said:Wow, that was a bundle of
Wow, that was a bundle of information that I didn't know. Well, I knew about the alligators but the vultures.
Okay, here is what I know about the area where I live in California. Alameda must have the market cornered on squirrels, San Francisco is the only other city that I have seen so many. We have rac coons, which I have seen, skunks, which I have smelled, possums and lots and lots of spiders. Funny thing is that I lived in Suisun before and it was and is much more rural and I never saw the quantity of these animals that I have here. We did have lots of water birds and one crane in particular would steal the koi and gold fish from my mom's pond. I remember buying her two replacement koi which I named Sushi and Teriyaki. Well named, they didn't last a week, before becoming dinner for the crane. At one of our big family parties, when there had been no fish in the pond for months, we all saw a big new koi. No one would own up to having brought it and putting it in the pond. I was always thought to be the culprit but it wasn't me. Whoever did it certainly caused a forever mystery in the family. I wished I had thought of it, but I think that the crane brought one back. LOL Suisun also had coyotes, foxes, and lots of other critters and I did see those on occasion. There was even a bear that long ago appeared in downtown Vacaville and there have been sightings of mountain lions.
So everyone, what type of wildlife do you have in your area? Animal, not night clubs. That will be a topic for another day.
Thanks for this thread, shy.
Stef
You know you're from Texas if....
1. You measure distance in minutes. -- I do
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. -- I have
3. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks. -- true
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it,
no matter what time of the year. -- not sure of this one....
5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store. -- true true
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable,
grain, insect or animal. -- true
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked. -- lol true
8. You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car. -- ???
9. You know what "cow tipping" is. -- true
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco. -- a few others
11. The local paper covers national and international news on one page but
requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports. -- true
12. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. -- not me
13. You find 100 degrees F "a little warm." -- true
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and
Christmas. -- true
15. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin wal-martin" or
off to "Wally World." -- true
16. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili
weather. -- and wear jackets
17. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop. it's a Coke
regardless of brand or flavor. Ex: "What kinda coke you want?" -- trueeee
18. High school football is a way of life. -- its not?0 -
stef...what I love bestfauxma said:Wow, that was a bundle of
Wow, that was a bundle of information that I didn't know. Well, I knew about the alligators but the vultures.
Okay, here is what I know about the area where I live in California. Alameda must have the market cornered on squirrels, San Francisco is the only other city that I have seen so many. We have rac coons, which I have seen, skunks, which I have smelled, possums and lots and lots of spiders. Funny thing is that I lived in Suisun before and it was and is much more rural and I never saw the quantity of these animals that I have here. We did have lots of water birds and one crane in particular would steal the koi and gold fish from my mom's pond. I remember buying her two replacement koi which I named Sushi and Teriyaki. Well named, they didn't last a week, before becoming dinner for the crane. At one of our big family parties, when there had been no fish in the pond for months, we all saw a big new koi. No one would own up to having brought it and putting it in the pond. I was always thought to be the culprit but it wasn't me. Whoever did it certainly caused a forever mystery in the family. I wished I had thought of it, but I think that the crane brought one back. LOL Suisun also had coyotes, foxes, and lots of other critters and I did see those on occasion. There was even a bear that long ago appeared in downtown Vacaville and there have been sightings of mountain lions.
So everyone, what type of wildlife do you have in your area? Animal, not night clubs. That will be a topic for another day.
Thanks for this thread, shy.
Stef
stef...what I love best about your neck o the woods is to say swee-sun instead of suisun and really irritate people, lol usually because they just called san francisco as frisco...slowly I turn, step by step, lol...here they just pronounce everything wrong...you can tell newbies because they say kississimmee as kiss-a-me instead of kiss-sim-me...the one that still irritates me is if you spell it oviedo it is o vee ay doh...no it is o vee doh here...oh and you have to be careful about stopping to pick the big turtles out of the road...some of them are the snapping turtles and will turn that neck around and snap your lil ol fingers right off...gratitude?0 -
I now know so much aboutpinkflutterby said:Texas
You know you're from Texas if....
1. You measure distance in minutes. -- I do
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. -- I have
3. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks. -- true
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it,
no matter what time of the year. -- not sure of this one....
5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store. -- true true
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable,
grain, insect or animal. -- true
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked. -- lol true
8. You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car. -- ???
9. You know what "cow tipping" is. -- true
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco. -- a few others
11. The local paper covers national and international news on one page but
requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports. -- true
12. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. -- not me
13. You find 100 degrees F "a little warm." -- true
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and
Christmas. -- true
15. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin wal-martin" or
off to "Wally World." -- true
16. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili
weather. -- and wear jackets
17. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop. it's a Coke
regardless of brand or flavor. Ex: "What kinda coke you want?" -- trueeee
18. High school football is a way of life. -- its not?
I now know so much about Texas and before I only knew that there was big fight at some place called the Alamo. Just Kidding. I think I like 17 the best. What kinda Coke you want?
LOL totally.
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FLA in the 'early' days was
FLA in the 'early' days was as 'wild' as the 'West'. There were Indian Wars, Range Wars, and just generally pretty wild. My Great Grandfather was a lawman in Milton, Santa Rosa County and he was gunned down in town after a bank robbery. Pensacola was the first city founded in America in 1559 but it was later abandoned for some years so St. Augustine founded in 1565 gets to claim being the oldest continually inhabited city in the States. For many years, FL produced more head of cattle than any other state (not true any more).
The only thing I can think of for SD (the State - not the town) is that highest point between the Rocky Mountains and the Swiss Alps is Harney Peak in the Black Hills.0 -
eeehh hawww...i love goingpinkflutterby said:Texas
You know you're from Texas if....
1. You measure distance in minutes. -- I do
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. -- I have
3. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks. -- true
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it,
no matter what time of the year. -- not sure of this one....
5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store. -- true true
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable,
grain, insect or animal. -- true
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked. -- lol true
8. You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car. -- ???
9. You know what "cow tipping" is. -- true
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco. -- a few others
11. The local paper covers national and international news on one page but
requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports. -- true
12. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. -- not me
13. You find 100 degrees F "a little warm." -- true
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and
Christmas. -- true
15. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin wal-martin" or
off to "Wally World." -- true
16. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili
weather. -- and wear jackets
17. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop. it's a Coke
regardless of brand or flavor. Ex: "What kinda coke you want?" -- trueeee
18. High school football is a way of life. -- its not?
eeehh hawww...i love going through texas, I love the huge flags and things really are bigger there...to texas pride and long horns...ps just got back from wally world, got me some pop and bimbo bread...but where does this puttin 5 packets of mayo on the sausage biscuit sandwich at burger king come from??? Gaaggg... Oh and we have zaxbys that serves fried pickles!0 -
More on the great State of TexasRague said:FLA in the 'early' days was
FLA in the 'early' days was as 'wild' as the 'West'. There were Indian Wars, Range Wars, and just generally pretty wild. My Great Grandfather was a lawman in Milton, Santa Rosa County and he was gunned down in town after a bank robbery. Pensacola was the first city founded in America in 1559 but it was later abandoned for some years so St. Augustine founded in 1565 gets to claim being the oldest continually inhabited city in the States. For many years, FL produced more head of cattle than any other state (not true any more).
The only thing I can think of for SD (the State - not the town) is that highest point between the Rocky Mountains and the Swiss Alps is Harney Peak in the Black Hills.
The capitol in Austin opened May 16, 1888. The dome of the building stands seven feet higher than that of the nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was Houston.
Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. The Dublin Dr Pepper, 85 miles west of Waco, still uses pure imperial cane sugar in its product. There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper.
When Texas was annexed in 1845 it retained the right to fly its flag at the same height as the national flag.
The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation.
Texas possesses three of the top ten most populous cities in the United States. These towns are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.
El Paso is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas.
Texas includes 267,339 square miles, or 7.4% of the nation's total area.
The state's cattle population is estimated to be near 16 million.
More land is farmed in Texas than in any other state.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area has more residents - 6,145,037 - than 31 U.S. states.
For example, Colorado has about 4.9 million residents. ( I live in Fort Worth)
There is a town in Texas named Ding Dong.
In Waxahatchie there is a replica of the 1960's TV Show 'Munster's' haunted mansion.
Dallas has more restuarants per captia than New York City; 7,000 plus and counting.
Dallas' corner of Elm and Houston streets has a sordid history. The building completed there in November 1898 was struck by lightning and burned to the ground in May 1901. By the fall of 1901 it was rebuilt. In that same building 62 years later, Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy from the sixth floor.0 -
Oh and we have a town called
Oh and we have a town called Celebration and one called Christmas...we have a town where psychics live and a town where retired carnival folk came to live, sadly it's being made into a regular town and the carnival folk are somewhat forced to move on...0 -
There is also Two Egg,shy violet said:Oh and we have a town called
Oh and we have a town called Celebration and one called Christmas...we have a town where psychics live and a town where retired carnival folk came to live, sadly it's being made into a regular town and the carnival folk are somewhat forced to move on...
There is also Two Egg, Yeehaw Junction, ElJobean, FL.
I bought my first Appaloosa stallion in Christmas.
Most of the 'carneys' I knew/know lived in or around Gibtown (Gibsonton)when not on the road. I spent a couple of summers 'way back when' traveling selling junk jewelery at fairs pretty much all over east of the Missippi. It was a great time in my life and I met some of the greatest people anyone could ever want to know or call them friend or be called a friend by them.0 -
I lived in Suisun forshy violet said:stef...what I love best
stef...what I love best about your neck o the woods is to say swee-sun instead of suisun and really irritate people, lol usually because they just called san francisco as frisco...slowly I turn, step by step, lol...here they just pronounce everything wrong...you can tell newbies because they say kississimmee as kiss-a-me instead of kiss-sim-me...the one that still irritates me is if you spell it oviedo it is o vee ay doh...no it is o vee doh here...oh and you have to be careful about stopping to pick the big turtles out of the road...some of them are the snapping turtles and will turn that neck around and snap your lil ol fingers right off...gratitude?
I lived in Suisun for probably two years before I said it correctly. And funny you should mention San Francisco cause that's where I was born and lived until I was ten, then moved to South San Francisco and yes, natives hate the Frisco label. My aunt used to say it to annoy my grandmother. Frankly I never cared what people called them, I called them home.
I will remember not to rescue turtles with my hands in Florida. I'll just slide them out of the way with a big stick.
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omg I am so pm ing you...youfauxma said:I lived in Suisun for
I lived in Suisun for probably two years before I said it correctly. And funny you should mention San Francisco cause that's where I was born and lived until I was ten, then moved to South San Francisco and yes, natives hate the Frisco label. My aunt used to say it to annoy my grandmother. Frankly I never cared what people called them, I called them home.
I will remember not to rescue turtles with my hands in Florida. I'll just slide them out of the way with a big stick.
Stef
omg I am so pm ing you...you won't believe small world...0 -
Texas is a big State so requires multiple posts.....Rague said:There is also Two Egg,
There is also Two Egg, Yeehaw Junction, ElJobean, FL.
I bought my first Appaloosa stallion in Christmas.
Most of the 'carneys' I knew/know lived in or around Gibtown (Gibsonton)when not on the road. I spent a couple of summers 'way back when' traveling selling junk jewelery at fairs pretty much all over east of the Missippi. It was a great time in my life and I met some of the greatest people anyone could ever want to know or call them friend or be called a friend by them.
there is a Beverly Hills, Texas - China, Texas - Paris, Texas - Colorado City, Denver City, Egypt, Texas - Missouri City, Texas - Moscow, Texas - Naples, Texas - New Boston, Texas - Omaha, Texas - Portland, Texas - Santa Fe, Texas - Turkey, Texas - Texas City, Texas - Utopia, Texas - and Watermelon, Texas. Just some interesting City names in Texas.
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oh miss libby, you arepinkflutterby said:Texas is a big State so requires multiple posts.....
there is a Beverly Hills, Texas - China, Texas - Paris, Texas - Colorado City, Denver City, Egypt, Texas - Missouri City, Texas - Moscow, Texas - Naples, Texas - New Boston, Texas - Omaha, Texas - Portland, Texas - Santa Fe, Texas - Turkey, Texas - Texas City, Texas - Utopia, Texas - and Watermelon, Texas. Just some interesting City names in Texas.
Looks like I've enjoyed this post lol
oh miss libby, you are great...i knew this would be fun...i think this stuff is very cool...lmao about two posts for texas...0 -
Most of the big 'turtles'fauxma said:I lived in Suisun for
I lived in Suisun for probably two years before I said it correctly. And funny you should mention San Francisco cause that's where I was born and lived until I was ten, then moved to South San Francisco and yes, natives hate the Frisco label. My aunt used to say it to annoy my grandmother. Frankly I never cared what people called them, I called them home.
I will remember not to rescue turtles with my hands in Florida. I'll just slide them out of the way with a big stick.
Stef
Most of the big 'turtles' you actually get to see (unless your 'go native') are gopher tortoise which are on the 'Threatened List' so you are to not harass/bother them. Snapper are usually near or in water and very secretive. Softshell turtles make a great stew.
Unfortunately, since in the '60's there are also 'Walking Catfish' there that wreck havoc on native fish. They are air breathing and walk (sometimes quite some distance) using their pectoral fins and tail.0 -
Uh oh...bet we hear from theRague said:Most of the big 'turtles'
Most of the big 'turtles' you actually get to see (unless your 'go native') are gopher tortoise which are on the 'Threatened List' so you are to not harass/bother them. Snapper are usually near or in water and very secretive. Softshell turtles make a great stew.
Unfortunately, since in the '60's there are also 'Walking Catfish' there that wreck havoc on native fish. They are air breathing and walk (sometimes quite some distance) using their pectoral fins and tail.
Uh oh...bet we hear from the California delegation on the softshell turtle soup...lol...yes, ladies it was a real culture shock coming from the west to here...lol0 -
ps gonna have to drag me mapshy violet said:oh miss libby, you are
oh miss libby, you are great...i knew this would be fun...i think this stuff is very cool...lmao about two posts for texas...
ps gonna have to drag me map of the sunshine state out now...love a good challenge...0 -
Miss Rague, this is greatRague said:Most of the big 'turtles'
Most of the big 'turtles' you actually get to see (unless your 'go native') are gopher tortoise which are on the 'Threatened List' so you are to not harass/bother them. Snapper are usually near or in water and very secretive. Softshell turtles make a great stew.
Unfortunately, since in the '60's there are also 'Walking Catfish' there that wreck havoc on native fish. They are air breathing and walk (sometimes quite some distance) using their pectoral fins and tail.
Miss Rague, this is great stuff...we haven't told them about those amazing orb weavers yet...or about the snakes on the ground and in trees...oh my toto, were not in kansas anymore...0 -
Aww Texaspinkflutterby said:Texas
You know you're from Texas if....
1. You measure distance in minutes. -- I do
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. -- I have
3. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks. -- true
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it,
no matter what time of the year. -- not sure of this one....
5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store. -- true true
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable,
grain, insect or animal. -- true
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked. -- lol true
8. You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car. -- ???
9. You know what "cow tipping" is. -- true
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco. -- a few others
11. The local paper covers national and international news on one page but
requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports. -- true
12. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. -- not me
13. You find 100 degrees F "a little warm." -- true
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and
Christmas. -- true
15. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin wal-martin" or
off to "Wally World." -- true
16. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili
weather. -- and wear jackets
17. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop. it's a Coke
regardless of brand or flavor. Ex: "What kinda coke you want?" -- trueeee
18. High school football is a way of life. -- its not?
So very true on all of the above! I do not get that excited about deer season either. I live in a very small town population 600 or so. The local high school plays 6 man football, faster and really better than 11 man. I graduated from this school (my kids did not) with 10 in my class, all but 1 of us had been together since 1st grade. The school is still open but was not doing well a few years ago so my kids transferred to another district. We tend to give directions by saying you know it over yonder by where Bill lives or by the Johnson house.
Wildlife is interesting, I have had a rattlesnake killed in my front yard, backyard and a copperhead too. I just found out last week there is a Bobcat family living in a shed at my neighbors across the road. They have had trappers out but no luck yet.Skunks are pretty common too, you smell them more than see them but, yuck.There are also possums& armadillos. Life in small towns.... you just never know!! God Bless
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I am enjoying it too pinkflutterbypinkflutterby said:Texas is a big State so requires multiple posts.....
there is a Beverly Hills, Texas - China, Texas - Paris, Texas - Colorado City, Denver City, Egypt, Texas - Missouri City, Texas - Moscow, Texas - Naples, Texas - New Boston, Texas - Omaha, Texas - Portland, Texas - Santa Fe, Texas - Turkey, Texas - Texas City, Texas - Utopia, Texas - and Watermelon, Texas. Just some interesting City names in Texas.
Looks like I've enjoyed this post lol
There is also Cut and Shoot, Leon Junction, Flat,Mound, Prarie Hill ,Holland The Grove, Pettibone,Florence,Cyclone,Heidenheimer,Tomball,CoryellCity, most of these you will not find on many maps little bitty places.
The DrPepper mueseum in Waco is a good spot to visit if in Waco. Waco is the largest town close to me.
Ft.Hood is also the largest Army base in the US and it is right here in Texas.
Thanks Libby for all the info you provided! God Bless
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In Texas you can stillpinkflutterby said:More on the great State of Texas
The capitol in Austin opened May 16, 1888. The dome of the building stands seven feet higher than that of the nation's Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The first word spoken from the moon on July 20, 1969 was Houston.
Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. The Dublin Dr Pepper, 85 miles west of Waco, still uses pure imperial cane sugar in its product. There is no period after the Dr in Dr Pepper.
When Texas was annexed in 1845 it retained the right to fly its flag at the same height as the national flag.
The King Ranch in Texas is bigger than the state of Rhode Island.
Texas is the only state to enter the United States by treaty instead of territorial annexation.
Texas possesses three of the top ten most populous cities in the United States. These towns are Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.
El Paso is closer to Needles, California than it is to Dallas.
Texas includes 267,339 square miles, or 7.4% of the nation's total area.
The state's cattle population is estimated to be near 16 million.
More land is farmed in Texas than in any other state.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area has more residents - 6,145,037 - than 31 U.S. states.
For example, Colorado has about 4.9 million residents. ( I live in Fort Worth)
There is a town in Texas named Ding Dong.
In Waxahatchie there is a replica of the 1960's TV Show 'Munster's' haunted mansion.
Dallas has more restuarants per captia than New York City; 7,000 plus and counting.
Dallas' corner of Elm and Houston streets has a sordid history. The building completed there in November 1898 was struck by lightning and burned to the ground in May 1901. By the fall of 1901 it was rebuilt. In that same building 62 years later, Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy from the sixth floor.
be "hung by the neck until dead" for horse stealin......and spitting on the sidewalk is a .25 cent fine or day in jail. Texas is also the only state that can separate from the US and form its own union.0
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