I find them delicious. Eat them NOW. And let a few make spores. They are delicious.... Or I think so. I saw a field of them by college-Station in texas that were 9" across. Oh Man did I have great eating I brought some home and ran around my Back 40 and clapped them and let the spores fly in on a breezy day and the spores must have blown of my land.

OH Sharon!!! How the heck did you score those? What radio station are you listening to? I like Jewel...but not enuf to re-arrange my schedule tomorrow. Hope someone takes you up on the offer!!! Now if it was Beiber tickets, I'd have to fight someone. My grand-daughter would DIE if I could score those. Paula

Sharon, I just hope when they rebuild him, they don't do it the "usual" Dallas way....i.e. forming a committee to get input from all parts of the community, having an international competition to select a famous designer or architect, fighting and bickering over the design concept and wasting lots of time and money, etc. before soliciting donations from some rich Dallasite whose name will be plastered on Big Tex. You know what I mean.....sometimes Dallas can make something more complicated than it has to be. Big Tex doesn't need no stinkin' neon lights and he doesn't need to be standing on a big slab of stone in a reflecting pool either. I want them to build a traditional Big Tex all Texans will be proud of and that still will look like the Big Tex we all know and remember. I don't want a 21st-Century artist's concept of an updated metrosexual Big Tex with a manicure, tattoes and an earring or something similar. I just want good ol' traditional and iconic Big Tex. If they change his look too much, I will be so disappointed! And, on a silly side note, someone sent Tim a recording of the comments from firefighters arriving on the scene. The first fire unit on-scene always gives a "scene size-up" to other inbound units so everyone understands what is going on and what they'll see when they arrive. Dallas FD 777 said, upon arrival, "We have a large cowboy, clothing burned off". Despite the sadness of seeing Big Tex burning, I had to giggle when I heard that scene size-up. It was direct and to the point, and certainly an accurate description of what they were facing. I don't know if you noticed, but people brought cards, flowers and other items and laid them on the ground near Big Tex after the fire was over and the firemen had cleared the scene. I also noticed the landscaping around his feet was relatively unscathed, all things considered. Dawn

G'mornin' - nice to meet y'all - Nope - I'm not photogenic, so the only pic you'll get of me was the one on the Cleo bench - in work clothes. I look worse than a homeless person when I'm working - no sense in dirtying up good clothes. Nice looking garden you have LORI, and I DO believe I see a naked birdbath just begging for some tiles.