About With a Texas Twist

With A Texas Twist was established in April, 2005 by native Texans, Barbara and Larry Shepherd. Created with the goal of providing quality and affordable products for our customers, With A Texas Twist offers “western” themed items, for the home and personal use that reflect the spirit of Texas and the American west.

Following Texas tradition, is the heart and soul of the creation of With A Texas Twist. The selections for the products offered have been based on suggestions and needs of our friends, fellow Texans and those that long to share the comfort and designs of western style.

As native Texans, we have been blessed with the opportunity of experiencing the true meaning of Texas pride. Each trip around our great state offers reminders of where we’ve been and what we’ve become through out history.

Old missions and forts still standing, serve as markers to remind us of the battles fought and the lives lost by our ancestors. Reminders of the sacrifices made to build the way, for us, the descendants of legends.

Sites of old homesteads still nestled in the shadows of great oaks set the foreground at many farms and ranches. Surrounded by the latest equipment and fancy barns, the plows and tools left by our grandparents and theirs, still rest where they were left behind. Huge rocks placed along roads teach us the efforts and hardship involved in clearing these lands for pastures and farms. What was once trees and brush are now replaced by fields of corn and cotton for as far as one can see.

Thousands of acres of green pastures continue to provide a place for cattle to graze and produce their young. The deer and the antelope still claim their place among the herds of bigger and better breeds of cattle; and raise their heads to watch us as we pass. The sight of majestic longhorns still dot the countryside bringing with them a vision of the many cattle drives that wove there way across this wonderful state. And, on a good day, eagles and hawks can still be spotted; soaring above the fields in search of field mice to sustain them and insure their preservation.

Even Spring in Texas can be humbling. With it brings a rainbow of colors across pastures filled with wildflowers and native grasses. Wild roses, honeysuckle and morning glory still wrap themselves around the old fences left to remind us of our heritage.

Maybe these are the reasons why, after spending much of their life achieving their professional goals, whether it was practicing law, managing large corporations or simply working towards retirement, that so many are now choosing to return to life on family farms or building new ranches to call their own. Stemmed by the desire to live a simpler life, their briefcases are now abandoned in the closet and those memberships at the golf clubs left to expire.

They now take more pride in those trucks and new tractors than they ever did with those fancy little sports cars. Suits and ties have been replaced with boots, jeans and straw hats to protect them from the sun. Their legal pads no longer display notes for the next days hearing but lists of feed and materials to mend that fence the bull went through. Instead of busy freeways, their trip to work is a ride across a green pasture in the early morning light. Crowded streets have become a distant memory. A deer darting from the trees as they travel a back road is what those brakes are good for now. The horns of irritated motorists are lost to the sound of a mockingbird or the call of a cow that has lost her calf.

Bigger, better and more of it don’t seem as important as it once did. Evenings spent sitting on the porch, drinking sweet tea and sharing stories, both new and passed down, have taken the place of fancy restaurants and theaters. Besides, that old chair grandma left them always was the best seat in the house.

The days of hustle and bustle are finally behind them. But, what the heck! All they ever really wanted to be was a cowboy anyway!

So, if you’ve had cause to wonder, when ask where they’re from, that Texans put their shoulders back, stand taller and announce “I’m from Texas”, now you know. It isn’t really because they think they’re bigger or better. It’s simply because of where they’re from and what they’ve become that makes them so proud to say “I’m from Texas”!

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