This is proof for all of you smartasses with your smartassery who mock our lack of foliage. We do too have a tree in the Panhandle, and here it is! Na-na-na-na-naaaaaa-na!
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I hate to snicker out loud but that's just a big weed where I come from.
I have real trees twenty feet away in my back yard. A twenty minute drive East from here will put you in a forest that pretty much stretches over a hundred miles wide. A forty minute drive East will put you on the edge of that forest that stretches North clear to the Arctic circle.
I have driven through the Panhandle and it is almost like driving through a desert. If you saw a tree it was a sure sign there used to be a homestead there.
It's no wonder some pioneer women were driven mad by the wind at night.
Bois D' Arc-Wood of the Bow Or also known as Osage Orange or just hedge tree. Thousands were planted during the dirty thirties and used as wind breaks. Very tough and drought resistant.
Robert, most of the good grazing land was fairly mesquite-free, and what was there was cleared. There's still plenty of mesquite around, though. I've got a good 2 acres of nothing but.
That tree lasted nearly 100 years in the Texas Panhandle? Dang. That's...impressive, actually.
ReplyDeleteI hate to snicker out loud but that's just a big weed where I come from.
ReplyDeleteI have real trees twenty feet away in my back yard.
A twenty minute drive East from here will put you in a forest that pretty much stretches over a hundred miles wide.
A forty minute drive East will put you on the edge of that forest that stretches North clear to the Arctic circle.
I have driven through the Panhandle and it is almost like driving through a desert. If you saw a tree it was a sure sign there used to be a homestead there.
It's no wonder some pioneer women were driven mad by the wind at night.
Phil, it's not the wind that drives us mad, it's all the goddamn smartasses...
ReplyDeleteLMAO!
ReplyDeleteI'm still chuckling over that one.
Guilty as charged Maam.
LOL @ Phil.
ReplyDeleteBig weed!!!
Bwahahaha
So, it's not just me.
Terry
Smartass from Fla.
Bwahahaha
And all smartasses from Fla. can BITE ME. :-)
ReplyDeleteWhere's all the Mesquite trees?
ReplyDelete...golf clap...
ReplyDelete;)
Bois D' Arc-Wood of the Bow
ReplyDeleteOr also known as Osage Orange or just hedge tree. Thousands were planted during the dirty thirties
and used as wind breaks. Very tough and drought resistant.
Anon O'Moose
Robert, most of the good grazing land was fairly mesquite-free, and what was there was cleared. There's still plenty of mesquite around, though. I've got a good 2 acres of nothing but.
ReplyDeleteAngel eyes, you, too, may BITE ME. ;-)
Nom nom!
ReplyDeleteOh, Oh! Me next, me NEXT!!!!
ReplyDeleteOnly in Texas would they make such a big deal over,
ONE.
FREAKIN'.
TREE!
I think that my mother has Rhubarb that big, and definitely older!
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
( so what part can I claim as mine, to nibble on, Darlin'?)
One tree?
ReplyDeleteOMYGOSH!
Bob
III
Of course, being on the roadside in Texas, it spontaneously generates a bullet hole or two.
ReplyDeleteThat's a TX tree! Well I guess NOT everything is bigger in TX! We have dandelions bigger than that up in here in Cheeseland! You poor, poor Texans.
ReplyDeleteThat's not a tree, thats a small bush.
ReplyDeleteIt's a tree, dammit! Don't make me get all redheaded on your ass!
ReplyDelete"...Get all redheaded on your ass!".
ReplyDeleteSounds more like a good time, than a threat! ;)
Leigh
Whitehall, NY