Sunday, Aug 5th
We’ve really been enjoying our time here in Hatch. The job
is great, especially at the gas station/store. I get to visit with many foreigners
who are here seeing America. They all seem to be doing long cross-country trips,
many starting in California. Some even from back east! We also had a lot of
bikers through this week on the way to Sturgis. I’ve talked with people from
China, Japan, Czech Republic, France, Spain, Italy and England, just to name a
few. Most I have to show how to work our
gas pumps as they are old school. Put the nozzle in and turn on the tank. No pre
pay, no slot in the gas pump for your credit card. Who out there still knows
how to pump gas the old fashioned way?
We hung up hummingbird feeders around the motor home and we
have had many, many hummers flying around.
I tried to get a picture of one that was very differently colored…he had
a bright orange throat instead of a ruby throat. He was very fast and I think
he has moved on because I haven’t seen him in recent days. We get 6-8 flying
around the feeder all at once. Lots of the time they stay still for several
minutes and perch on the tree branches, which I’ve never seen them do before. Hummingbird pictures
We go for a bike ride with Lucy every morning. She is so
funny. She never barks except when you get on the bike and ride down the street…she
must think we are cows she needs to herd! She gets ride behind your left pedal
and barks and yips. I keep thinking she is going to run into the side of the
bike and Jim or I will crash but she never does. The other morning she flushed
a fawn out from behind a pine tree and went after it like a rocket. I’m hollering
at her to come back but she is paying no attention! Off she and the fawn go……right
across a meadow and on across the highway! Thank goodness there was no traffic
coming at that moment in time……it certainly gave me a fright. She has NO street sense.
We’ve also been sampling a couple of the local beers brewed
in Utah. There are 2 breweries that we’ve seen in the stores so far. Wasatch
Brewing Company (wasatchbeers.com) and Uintah Brewery (uintahbrewing.com) I love
the names for the beers that they come up with. Check out the websites for a total listing but
this one is my all time favorite: Polygamy Porter – Why have just one? I saw a
T-shirt last night that has the label on it along with this statement: “Take
some home to your wives.” Who says Mormon’s don’t
have a sense of humor.
We decided to try some new trails on our off days this week.
As you can see by the picture of one of the Forest Service maps…the roads go
everywhere. The problem is, many of them are not marked. And if they are marked
the Forest Service road numbers are different from the Off Highway Vehicle road numbers that are on the
maps. We got off on some pretty intense
4WD roads west of here and decided we needed some better maps!
We also went to
Pine Lake (we’ll go back there with the kayak now that we’ve scoped it out) Pine Lake pictures and
Bryce Canyon ….awesome and beautiful as always. (www.nps.gov/brca) Bryce Canyon and Red Canyon pictures
