We are now in Dalhart, Texas for the night (where it was still 85F at 6 pm) after a (very long) drive through New Mexico to Clovis and Portales - we wanted to look at the incredible collection of windmills we'd seen in the NM visitor guides - and did!

We also made Jim very happy by coming across a retail arm of one of the huge peanut farms where he was able to buy sacks and sacks of peanuts (you're warned, gift-receivers!) as well as a few jars of chipotle/ginger peanutbutter...I am wondering how that will be in peanut butter cookies??? The fields around Portales/Clovis are green with wheat and irrigated from the looks of it - the farmers are out tilling and there were lots of halfgrown beef calves (Angus) that were already weaned.

It looked like there had been grass fires here in northern Texas and man - o -man are the feedlots full!!! I took some pictures which I'll try to remember to post - it's hard to get the scale of those feedlots on film; they're enormous - acres and acres of feedlot cows.

Tomorrow should find us north of Kansas City somewhere and it looks like smooth sailing all the way north. Thanks to everyone who has kept in touch while we've been in our home away from home this winter -