Maggie's Farm

LOL--i saw that one coming when i got to 'skip Austin'. Except for the Rio Grande Valley, the only blue spot on the map. Well, with 254 counties, a half-dozen gone to rot ain't too too bad. But we're working on those. Anyhoo, Austin actually has plenty of smart people, but they're terribly diluted by the vast numbers working -- oops i mean 'on the payroll' -- in the state capitol building and on the University of Texas campus.

and Dimebox, and Cut n Shoot! yes'm i saw that copper-colored horse comment -- i loved it -- it reminded me of Laska! here's the front end of it (the rest is around by search):


I want free life and I want fresh air;
And I long for the gallop after the cattle,
In their frantic flight, like the roar of battle,
The mêlée of horns, and hoofs, and heads
That wars and wrangles and scatters and spreads--
The green beneath and the blue above,
And dash and danger, and life and love --
And Lasca!
Lasca used to ride
On a mouse-gray mustang close to my side,
With blue serapé and bright-belled spur;
I laughed with joy as I looked at her!
Little knew she of books or of creeds;
An Avé Maria sufficed her needs;
Little she cared, save to be by my side,
To ride with me, and ever to ride....