Wednesday, November 6, 2013

You Know You Live in Texas When…

A property is worth $1 million because of it’s barns.

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You find a cricket on your pillow, a possum on your back porch, an armadillo as roadkill, and this spider in your kitchen. All in the same day.Texas Blog2

Yikes!

The grocery stores sell Dallas Cowboys grocery bags.

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I had to find someway to include a picture of the Baby… ;-)

The local Christian radio station has commercials for hair therapy, spa treatments, & weight loss supplements. They have sponsors like the Texas Department of Transportation, the whole City of Grapevine, & “Heaven’s Best Carpet Cleaning.”

Your hair won’t stay flat regardless of how much straightening or hairspray you use. And that’s on a “low humidity” day. Curly is the way to go here!Texas Blog3

There’s at least 1 fried chicken restaurant per mile of highway.

There are 2 Anchormen on the local news station named Bud & Babe.

Houses don’t come with refrigerators. When people sell their houses they seriously pack up their fridge & take it with them. Seems irrational to me.

It’s also not typical to find a house with gutters. Which is weird because…

It seriously rains here. I mean, rains. Like, lots of water coming out of the sky. Lots. And, for more than 5 minutes at a time. It’s foreign to me.

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Gas is $2.82/gallon.

Kids wear just their Halloween costumes Trick-or-Treating. Like, without the winter gear covering it all up. You can actually tell what the kid is trying to be for Halloween.

You can wear a tank top & flip flops in November. I can’t wait to see what happens when it “snows!” :-)Texas Blog4                                                                   November 1st!

And finally, a big reason we moved here: Your new house, which is a bit larger, more updated, & otherwise very similar, cost $85,000 less than your old house in Colorado.

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