Ashe

Fantastic Ethiopian dinner then more .…

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Aug 252010
 
Muzita Abyssinian Bistro in San Diego

Won­der­ful din­ner at the Muzi­ta Abyssin­ian Bistro in San Diego

Here I am with Bob and Michele, my broth­er-in-law and sis­ter, shar­ing a fan­tas­tic Ethiopi­an din­ner treat in San Diego. Note the lack of table­ware and the lim­it­ed num­ber of plates, i.e. ONE! Its all shared and done with the hands, very fun.

After our leisure­ly feast we went on to see “The Last Romance” play in the Sheryl and Har­vey White The­atre of the Old Globe Com­plex. Anoth­er great evening brought to me by Bob and Michele, thank you.

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Live Maine Canary

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Aug 192010
 


Anoth­er great out­ing with Phyl­lis as we accom­pa­nied Car­ol to the Beach­side Cafe at Hendry’s Beach to watch her move from image one to image four in just 56 min­utes. Still cel­e­brat­ing the won­der vis­it to UCLA last week she want­ed an entire lob­ster to help keep the ball rolling. As we see in image four the cat def­i­nite­ly got the canary and fin­ished it!

 Posted by at 12:30 pm

AsheCoutts.Info moves to GoDaddy.Com

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Aug 182010
 
I have just this week changed host­ing ser­vices from Net­work Solu­tions to GoDad­dy. I main­ly did this for the reduced fees but have been very hap­py with the 8 or 10 tech­ni­cians I have talked to in get­ting things transferred.

Then, just a few min­utes ago I attempt­ed to post a com­ment to my recent­ly moved blog to GoDad­dy via email and found it worked flaw­less­ly. Over the last sev­er­al months I have talked with the Net­work Solu­tions folks sev­er­al times and had sim­ply giv­en up that this would ever work. I’m a hap­py camper now.
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Lunch parking in our future (best case scenario)

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Aug 092010
 

I was over at Vista del Monte today dur­ing lunch time, roam­ing my way back to Phyl­lis’ room. I saw this shot and found it quite inter­est­ing, so cap­tured it with my cell phone.

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Horses and Carriages and Floats, Oh My!

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Aug 062010
 

August 6, 2010: A fun and unexpected ride thru some Fiesta Parade Artifacts


It was around 12:45 p.m. and I was play­ing around on my com­put­er here in the cap­sule when I real­ized that I was hun­gry. So I decid­ed to jump on my trusty bicy­cle and head off on one of my two reg­u­lar lunch rides, to Stack­y’s in Summerland.

I had for­got­ten that it was Fies­ta Parade time so was hap­pi­ly sur­prised to find my ride down Castil­lo to be a fun filled adven­ture pass­ing parade entries return­ing to Per­sh­ing Park via Castil­lo. Click on the above image to see more of it, cour­tesy of the cam­era in my iPhone. When I final­ly got to Stack­y’s I ordered a Fies­ta Wrap. Could I have got­ten any­thing else?

Inter­est­ing fac­toid over­heard as I biked past the parade announc­ers down on Cabril­lo: Mex­i­co held rights to Alta Cal­i­for­nia for only 25 years. Back to you, Chet.

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((The Usual Suspects)+1) adventure to Mt. Pinos

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Aug 022010
 

Mt. Pinos hike August 2, 2010


Car­ol, Mar­garet, Ralph, and Ashe (TUS) along with Vir­ginia spent the day on Mount Pinos find­ing flow­ers, chat­ting, lunch­ing, and hiking.

Vir­ginia and Ralph arrived at Ashe’s at 9:00 a.m. where we piled into the Vol­vo and drove down the hill to pick up Car­ol then on to Carpin­te­ria to get Mar­garet on board. We decid­ed to dri­ve south on Hwy. 101, in on Hwy. 126 to Inter­state 5, then up to the Mount Pinos exit. A short stop at a Sub­way for Ashe to grab a turkey sand­wich and tank up then it was on task, i.e. off chas­ing flowers.

We end­ed up at the 8,300 foot park­ing lot where we had a nice hike into an adjoin­ing mead­ow then stopped for a shared lunch before hik­ing on up to the 8,800′ sum­mit of the moun­tain with lots of botan­i­cal stops and vis­it­ing along the way.

Our return dri­ve was quite spec­tac­u­lar, through Lock­wood Val­ley to Hwy. 33 then down to the edge of Ojai before skirt­ing Lake Casitas on Hwy. 150 and on into Carpin­te­ria to drop Mar­garet off before head­ing to San­ta Bar­bara, arriv­ing home around 7:45 p.m.

To see a slide show of our won­der­ful day click on the image above.

 Posted by at 9:00 am

Wonderful visit with best friends Dave & Marcia

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Aug 012010
 

Bike ride with Dave August 1, 2010

Best friends Dave and Mar­cia came to San­ta Bar­bara from their home in Texas to par­take with class­mates in a 50th anniver­sary reunion of their all grad­u­at­ing from USCB. This pre­sent­ed the oppor­tu­ni­ty for Dave and I to go for a bike ride togeth­er after a 30 year rid­ing gap, Dave on the same bike he had at that time. Mar­cia, Dave, and I had a nice break­fast vis­it at Max’s restau­rant then Dave and I went out for a 35 mile spin thru Hope Ranch, UCSB, Coal Oil Point, and back. When we returned the three of us chat­ted on for anoth­er hour or so talk­ing about old times and present times, includ­ing catch­ing up on what has been hap­pen­ing with their two sons; Mark and Brian.

Dave and I were best friends for the 70’s into the 80’s when I moved to San­ta Bar­bara. The bond remains regard­less of time and place. We lived in La Cana­da at the time and were sep­a­rat­ed by about 4 blocks. We jogged most week­day morn­ings togeth­er for years, rode our bikes in all dif­fer­ent direc­tions and dis­tances, and I spent count­less hours with them in their home along with their two sons. I felt very much like extend­ed family.

Wonderful, warm memories.
 Posted by at 9:00 am

Margaret and Ashe have a nice lunch in Carp

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Jul 292010
 

Ashe and Mar­garet (along with miss dou­ble M) in Gian­n­fran­co’s Trat­to­ria in Carp

I rode my bicy­cle down to Mar­garet’s home in Carpin­te­ria for lunch. On the way, pass­ing through Sum­mer­land, I met Cyn­thia cycling back up from Carp where she had just rid­den her new Sur­ley bike for a tune-up with Den­nis at Rin­con Cycles. She and I had a nice 10 — 15 minute catch up then it was on again to Mar­garet’s. After arriv­ing and stash­ing my bike Mar­garet drove us down­town to the won­der­ful Gian­n­fran­co’s Trat­to­ria on Lin­den where we had a fun, tasty (YUM!!) lunch and a great visit.

The wait­ress offered us the spot shown above. I chose to sit under Mar­i­lyn so I would­n’t have to be star­ing at her from the oth­er side of the table 🙂

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Ralph has Ashe up for a birthday lunch

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Jul 282010
 

A nice birthday lunch with Ralph


Ralph had me up for a nice birth­day lunch today. I decid­ed to ride the Suzu­ki up the 9.2 miles to his house and brought along some san­dals in case we walked down to the creek. As usu­al Ralph had pre­pared a won­der­ful meal. We had a nice long chat while eat­ing then hiked down to the creek for an hour or so before return­ing to the house for my birth­day “cake” com­plete with candle.

When leav­ing I decid­ed to take the long, 70 mile, route home so rode on up the pass and over and down to Hwy. 246 into Solvang. Then out from Solvang on the Alisal Road to Hwy. 101 and on home. A beau­ti­ful ride and a won­der­ful day.

Thanks Ralph!
 Posted by at 12:00 pm

Ashe’s 66th Birthday :-)

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Jul 252010
 
Ashe and Tom outside Starbucks at the Camino Real Marketplace

Ashe and Tom out­side Star­bucks at the Camino Real Marketplace

Tom and I rode out to Gole­ta Beach, by the lagoon at UCSB, and along the Dever­oux Cliffs before stop­ping for break­fast and a nice vis­it. After­ward it was back along Cathe­dral Oaks to San­ta Bar­bara for a good meet­ing with no last names then a fun lunch with friends at the Pala­pa Restau­rant. On home for some doo­dling on the com­put­er then it was 4:30 and Tom road in for the final stage of the Tour de France on Ver­sus HD.  Sev­er­al nice calls from friends made for a very good day.

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