A cold but sunny morning...

Good morning! The sun is shining and it look beautiful outside -- only 37 deg (F) however, so the sweats are on our bodies and the furnace is on at the house!

I just looked at my visitor location map -- I find it so interesting that people visit my blog from all around the world. Sometimes I try to picture where they live but it is difficult. That is why House Hunters International is one of my favorite shows. It is great to see how and where people live in other countries.

I remember many years ago when we were visiting in Mexico, at a lodge on the edge of the Canon del Cobre (Copper Canyon.) We met a family from the interior of Mexico and the young daughter, after hearing that we were from Texas, wanted me to tell her about our horses. You see, her vision of the US was a product of grade B western movies and she thought we all rode horses in Texas. She had also seen some of the OLD zombie movies (Grade C or D) and said she would be afraid to visit the US because she was afraid the zombies would get her.

I tried to tell her that we didn't all have horses in Texas -- that we drove cars to work just as her father (a doctor) did in Mexico. Nope, she had it firmly fixed in her mind that we all rode horses in Texas! (Hummm, this seems familiar -- perhaps I've blogged about this before. Oh, well.)
(Yep, I looked back and I blog-talked about House Hunters Int. in Jan of 09.)

After we visited Alaska we saw a town that is so buried in snow during the winter that the people live in large apartment buildings where the stores and schools are located inside the same building and the residents can travel from building to building via underground tunnels. Interesting.

How do you picture Texas, USA? How does your home differ from what you think about ours?