Texas

[jockeyeba]

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Now I know I have gone over to the chicken side.  My husband and I were walking around our property this morning when the sun was coming up.  It was a deep orange/red color.  Within a few minutes it became a light yellow.  I told dh that the deep orange/red is like a country chicken's egg and the light yellow is the store egg color.  He just looked at me and shook his head. 

Lisa

 Now THAT is funny!

X2

 

[jockeyeba]

Here is a pic I took about 2 weeks ago, it was much prettier in real life. I am not as good of a picture taker as Jungleexplorer

Cool

 

[jockeyeba]

If you are tired of all the chicken talk. Here is a little something to take your mind off of it. My blond lab Shelby Oh and here are some Texas sunsets from a few days ago.

those sunsets

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Very pretty & can you give us the smoothie recipe

It is really easy. It's just some ripe prickly pears, vanilla ice cream and ice cubes. Blend it all up and you have a delicious smoothie. Adjust the ingredients to your taste. But be careful, those pears have a lot of color in them and will stain everything they touch. Oh and don't worry when they come out. You are not bleeding to death.

 

[kkidsmom]

Just 13 miles out of Texarkana. I lurk in the Arkansas group as well.

 

[galanie]

You're reminding me of my childhood in Corpus Christi with all the talk of mustang jelly, prickly pears, and so forth. As a kid we used to pick them off whatever cactus we saw and basically got thorns in our hands everywhere but they were delicious enough to risk it hahaha. We had mesquite and huisache trees in the front yard. Mesquite is neat looking and huisache has the prettiest flowers but thorns everywhere.

 

[Jungleexplorer]

Yeah. Not to mention those delicious wild Dewberries. My mom makes a Dewberries pie that will make you cry. Never found them anywhere else but around the Corpus area

 

[mandaleigh1981]

You're reminding me of my childhood in Corpus Christi with all the talk of mustang jelly, prickly pears, and so forth. As a kid we used to pick them off whatever cactus we saw and basically got thorns in our hands everywhere but they were delicious enough to risk it hahaha. We had mesquite and huisache trees in the front yard. Mesquite is neat looking and huisache has the prettiest flowers but thorns everywhere.

We live in between Corpus and San Antonio on IH37. I live South of a small town called Pleasanton (They do actually have an exit off the highway). My husband grew up here, and did the same thing; when he was horseback riding he would drag a long vine of mustang grapes and just eat them as he rode. If we didn't have huisache and mesquite, we wouldn't have trees, or barbecue for that matter!

 

[mandaleigh1981]

Yeah. Not to mention those delicious wild Dewberries. My mom makes a Dewberries pie that will make you cry. Never found them anywhere else but around the Corpus area

I have looked around here for dewberries, and you can find em, but in patches too small to really do anything with exceopt eat em straight off the plant.

 

[RachaelS]

When I was a kid, there were dewberries EVERYWHERE in Austin, now I can't remember the last time I saw some.