Saturday at the home of the XIT

Saturday and we have a great breakfast across the street at the Sands Restaurant. Real ham so tender it almost melted, home made sausage and the usual. Ought to keep us going till barbecue time.

We walked around the old part of downtown Dalhart, pop. a little over 7,000. Found the XIT museum across from the 75 year old courthouse. Spent a easy 1 1/2 hours looking at all the exhibits of the old ranch and the area.

Time to get to the rodeo grounds - more tractor pulls - amazing what these old tractors can do. The John Deere's with the slow pop-pop-pop of their 2 cylinder diesel engine as the lug down. One was from the 30's but most from the 50's.

It's about 4:30 so we head over to the serving lines - 12 lines to feed all the people - we find a short one and get out plates loaded up.

The area is becoming big in the dairy industry lately, so one of the companies set up a tent with tables you could sit at and gave away milk, cheese and ice cream bars.

We sat around a while listening to music then head back to town - going to get a soft ice cream cone for Teina but Dairy Queen's machine broken down so scratch that. Decide to go to the melodrama at the old theater, but had mis-read the sign - no evening performance today, so back to the motel and the computers. Then World Series of Poker comes on and we're set for the night.

Tomorrow - ? - somewhere else.