Pretty Bugs

These mountains contain some weird bugs along with some familiar ones.  The top picture has a red and black striped beetle kind of bug.  It has these weird little wings up by his head.  I'm still waiting to hear from a friend what kind of bug it is.  The other bug which is bright green is a praying mantis.  The ones I'm used to seeing are kind of brown.    This year there are a few mosquitoes around with some biting flies.  Many more bugs this year than last.

We are getting spoiled being here close to farms that sell farm fresh eggs.  The yolks are a very rich yellow color and taste amazing.  The little store by us sells fabulous bacon and steak.  So we treat our selves once in awhile to the meat.   The owner of the park has a ranch and raises lots of vegetables as well as cattle.   He even gave us a small elk roast from an elk that the owners wife shot last fall.  It was very tasty cooked on the grill.

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The One and Only Mattress House

Clay Springs, the little town we are staying in for the summer, has some unique features.  One of them being this house made out of mattresses.  The design is kind of like an igloo.  It is not lived in but the guy building and rebuilding this mattress house lives in a house on the property.  He starts to getting it looking pretty good and then the monsoons come.  I don't have a picture of it after the rains but it has pretty much come down.  We just aren't sure why he continues to rebuild it.  This is at least the second year in a row for this project.  Hope he isn't trying to make it into a rental -- renters beware.

We are trying to get out in the forest as much as we can but it gest really muddy after a good rain.  You don't know until you get out there if the roads will be passable or not.  The rain here is very spotty.  It could be a deluge in one spot and fifty feet away no rain at all.   We can have mud and dust both on our 4wheeler after a ride.