Everything IS big in Texas!

We had a good sleep and a good breakfast in Childress, then we left sooner than usual to get to Ron & Cindy's earlier in the day. We wanted have time to visit and did have a great dinner and coversation with them. On the way we experienced still more variation in the landscape. They know how to get and use the available water down here. I hear that it changes as summer comes on, but it is so green and lush in north -central Texas right now. The terrain has become long rolling hills and shallow valleys and what comes to mind is a 500,000 acre golf course. There are some large herds of cattland horses. There are also, as you might expect, large feed lots for the cattle going to market. We passed sections of low green trees, I think they are junipers, that have been trimmed up by the cattle activity and draws full of green, lush bushes. It looks like they use the Juniper trunks for fence posts and there are hundreds of miles of them. Seems like there are plenty left too; Junipers that is. It's been the high 80's and low 90's the whole way today, but you don't get the feeling that it's that hot. It's getting more humid though. I think because of the clouds moving in and the threat of rain has been forcasted. It's been a very pleasant day and aside from the couple times we had to drive the "big freeway" we have stayed on the 'two lanes' and enjoyed the drive the whole way. Tomorrow, we are going to take it easy and just stay still. We don't want to wear out our welcome, but the day of rest will do us good. The big Cabella's store is just a few miles away, so we might veture out for a short time. I know we have one at Hawk's Prarie, but this one is maybe 4 or 5 times that size. Then we can say we've been there. Time is short, so I'll say adue and bring this up to date Wednesday night. Sleep well, we will I'm sure. P.S. This did not get posted until 4/23 in the morning, thus the seemingly wrong date. More tonight...