THE YEARN TO RETURN

919 days.....1284 days.......until we stick the HOME FOR SALE sign in the front yard....919 represents when Austin graduates high school and 1284 Cameron graduating from college...we have yet to decide which one it will be, but do know both seem like such a long time away.

Teri and I can't wait to return to the simple life of our Texas motherland. We agree we have no regret living the Colorado lifestyle the past 18 years, but it is one we dont want to continue when we become empty nesters. As funny as it may sound, it seems as our lonliness for Texas really surfaces annually when Fall is in the Texas air, the County Music Awards have just been televised and whitetail deer hunting is just getting underway. Well, at least for me.


Personally, what I miss and what I want most, in no particular order...
* Real family, real friends
* Whataburger
* Fall drizzly days
* 65MPH speed limit on the back roads
* A Republican governor
* Migas on the breakfast menu
* A back porch where I can see the deer feeder
* A friendly hand wave on the Farm to Market road
* An easy drive to the Fredericksburg cemetery
* A guaranteed Longhorn broadcast on Saturday
* REAL fajitas on the grill
* Multiple choices for Country Music on the radio dial
* School closings due to icy overpasses, not shootings
* Opening day of Whitewing season
* Friday night football
* Breakfast tacos with REAL tortillas
* Affordable auto labor
* The Death Penalty
* Wearing a straw cowboy hat and fitting in
* 2 months to hunt deer
* The Texaco and Dairy Queen only a rock throw away
* Two pickups in the driveway
* A small church
* CMT as a cable channel option
* Drivers who yield by pulling over on the shoulder
* A front porch
* Simple courtesy
* The 'Boys on the tube Sunday afternoon
* Ya'll


It's a bit curious, our best Colorado friends hail from Texas. Our other best friends for years that we met in Colorado now live in Texas. My best friend work peer went to Jr High in Texas. Our Senior Pastor who just retired is returning to Texas. There is something to be said about the Lone Star state. Only a current or former Texan would understand. Or perhaps more simply, once a Texan, always a Texan.

Anxiously waiting to sign the one-way U-haul rental agreement......