re: Shop tour

My son lives a couple hours from you. Until I visited him, about five years back, the only experience I had with Texas was via Fort Sill, Oklahoma.  I was amazed to learn how beautiful and green it was, elsewhere in Texas. 

I was all in for the live oak, mesquite and pecan all but free for the taking.  

If I was going to move from the Evergreen State, it'd be there, on a hill, above the water lines, and it would have a daylight basement (for free heating and cooling).

All that aside, your posts indicate you've carved out a nice spot for yourself there.