2 Texans Down Under

I’d call it déjà vu shock except that the stimulus has never before been quite like this.

I’m talking about the sheer size of some things I’m seeing here in Texas as we near the end of our holiday return “home.”

It hit me yesterday afternoon in a big-box store in a new shopping center development off Interstate 20 west of Fort Worth. I’d got off the highway and gone first to a home improvement store (Lowes, huge) and then to an adjacent Target store in search of a simple item I’ve been unable to find in Brisbane, Houston, or here in North Texas, Read the rest of this entry »