Living in Texas
My Trip to Monster Island
Living in Texas was very different from every other place I have ever lived. There is nothing like the aroma of new fertilizer that has just been layed during planting season. You can drive for miles and miles and the very distinctive scent only gets stronger and stronger. But, have you ever been driving through a peanut field, got hungry, stopped the car, got out and picked some fresh peanuts to munch on? It's great! However, let me give some advice to those of you who like to be a little reclusive. If this is your pleasure, buy a mobile home in Texas where you have to drive through a peanut field, over a gravel and dirt road, go around the horse stables and drive straight through to the center of the cow pasture to get to your home. You will have plenty of ALONE TIME! Every time I gave someone directions to my house, the response was always the same "You've got to be kidding me!" Let me tell you, this gives you a lot of time for reflection, reading, writing and studying because nobody comes to visit except the cows.
In fact, I even had one cow, Bessy, who was my alarm clock. Every morning at percisely 7am, Bessy would come to my bedroom window, start moooooing like crazy and kept mooooooing until I had one foot on the ground and yelled " OK Bessy, I'm up! I'm up!" TRUE STORY!
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My Vegetable Garden
I tended to my vegetable garden daily. After Bessy woke me up, I got dressed in old ratty clothes and went out with my handy dandy old time shovel that rested next to the front door. Some people have fancy ornaments. I have a rustic shovel. It was time to shovel the droppings of fertilizer from the cows into the compost bin. Bless their little hearts! All my vegitative scraps went into this bin. Some people have disposals..I had my bin! Planting, feeding, watering, weeding.........ahhhhhhh, I was in ecstasy!
A planting I will go, a planting I will go, high ho the derrio a planting I will go!
Although I may not have had too many visitors,... come harvest season, I had plenty of friends....which was a good thing because I can only eat so much. Lord knows, I HATE WASTE!
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Night Life (and I mean LIFE)
Now you would think that after all the hard work from the morning (and then going to work), I would be ready to go out at night and enjoy the sweet serenity of my home and the stillness of the evening calm ..........WRONG!
In Texas there are caves, which house bats. I always thought that bats stay with the stalactites....again I was wrong! Bats come out of the caves and hover around streetlights. At least that's what they did where I lived. Now if it wasn't enough to wonder if you would have some bat swoop down on you as you're walking along a dirt secluded pitch black road,...and for some reason the street light was so dim and high that the road really was pitch black,...in a distance you could hear the squealing of the wild boars, the wild turkeys and the coyotes fighting. Now the last loudest squeal lets you know who won the battle. I always thought this was a cool tidbit of information. It's nice to know which animal species will kill you if you happen to walk in the wrong area and come face to face with it. Of course, this is if the rattlesnake, the black widow spider or the scorpion doesn't meet up with you first.
No! I stayed in my handy dandy trusty home only having to fight off the fire ants that decided to make MY home their domicile.
I'm not in Texas anymore!!!!
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