Ride to Summerland to poke around the new Rusty’s then back home just as the sun rose

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May 142020
 

I’ve been get­ting up very ear­ly so have been alter­nat­ing days between walk­ing over to and along the beach or going for a 40 minute bike ride. This morn­ing it was off to Sum­mer­land. Tried some­thing new this morn­ing. I put an earplug in my free­way side ear. It was very help­ful in cre­at­ing a more peace­ful ride.

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Walking through the salt marsh over to the shore

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May 052020
 

I love get­ting up ear­ly and walk­ing over to and along the shore. A very spe­cial get­ting out for me dur­ing our Covid-19 quarantine.

I’ve start­ed tak­ing my cam­era along to allow shots the iPhone can­not cap­ture as clear­ly. The heron and egret shots below show this clear­ly. Tap/Click to see larg­er ver­sions and note how the vol­ume of water in the salt marsh can vary from almost zero, as in the shot of the egret, to full, shown with the heron.

 Posted by at 7:00 am

Beach walk to Little Dubai

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Mar 292020
 

When the tide is low I can eas­i­ly walk through the 8′ deep out­let of San­ta Mon­i­ca Creek at Sand Point then on to San­ta Claus Lane pass­ing the near­by and fas­ci­nat­ing mul­ti home mid­dle east­ern com­plex I call Lit­tle Dubai.

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Kate Wolf Music Festival with The Allens

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Jun 302019
 

Sat­ur­day morn­ing sit­ting in our camp look­ing over to the Revival Tent stage and the Love Choir.

 

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Tom’s off for AidsLifeCycle 2019, his Twelfth!!
That’s 6,500 miles if you’re counting

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That’s 6,500 miles if you’re counting
Jun 022019
 

First let’s watch him as he rides by on his way to Los Ange­les, 545 miles, then a few less dynam­ic images. Click on any to see a larg­er size and a cap­tion to go with.

 Posted by at 7:00 am

Jalama Beach for Jalama Burgers (What Else?)

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May 102019
 

I took the #20 bus into Sum­mer­land this morn­ing and then walked up almost to Car­la’s. It had start­ed to rain so she picked me up and saved me a last quar­ter mile in the drizzle.

Off we went to Jala­ma Beach for a deli­cious Jala­ma Burg­er, a beau­ti­ful dri­ve there and back, and a nice walk on the beach. An inter­est­ing part of my day was leav­ing my read­ing glass­es at home. With my new (cataract removed) eyes it was no prob­lem for the eight hours I was away but I could­n’t use my cell phone or read oth­er small type. A bless­ing in dis­guise in ret­ro­spect and a very nice get away/outing. Thanks Carla.

You can see the Jala­ma Store above their insert­ed sign along with Car­la and her
white sleeves way up the beach (click for a nice enlarge­ment then
use the back arrow to return here)

And a few more images from the day:

 Posted by at 2:30 pm

Carol Bornstein’s Birthday hike around the Aliso Loop

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Apr 212019
 

Car­ol was up in San­ta Bar­bara for the week­end near­est her birth­day and asked sev­er­al of us to once again cir­cle the Aliso Loop to cel­e­brate. Here are the lucky eight that made it to the trail­head on a beau­ti­ful East­er Sun­day morn­ing. Don’t miss the fun video at the end.

And final­ly, a birth­day cho­rus by the Aliso Loop Players

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Apr 142019
 

I final­ly decid­ed to upgrade my ten year old com­put­er. But after I pur­chased and received what I thought were all the parts I need­ed; CPU, moth­er­board, RAM, and video card I became aware that I had pur­chased a CPU that required water cool­ing.

Thus began a one week saga of me get­ting said water cool­er, try­ing all day one day to fit it in my old case, decid­ing to buy a new case, dis­cov­er­ing that it would be larg­er than I wished, then, think­ing out­side the box, real­ized that the cool­er itself would work fine out­side the box/case.

Here­with are sev­er­al shots along the way and a video of me with my new rig.

 Posted by at 4:11 pm

Early Morning Bike ride to Ventura

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Mar 272019
 

I got up ear­ly to ride down to break­fast at the Cajun Kitchen and remem­bered to take my cam­era so stopped along the way to take a few shots. I’m always fas­ci­nat­ed by the flare stack just south of the Rin­con and it being ear­ly took a few shots of it from far and near. The last three are pret­ty fun too, a Shas­ta trail­er won by the own­ers on the tele­vi­sion show “Let’s Make a Deal” in 1961!


As I rode by the mouth of the Ven­tu­ra Riv­er I was shocked by how much it has changed since I had seen it over many years as a peace­ful sandy lagoon with very few rocks. Click on the images below to see how things used to be then watch my short YouTube for what has hap­pened recently.


Union Pacif­ic was doing a lot of track main­te­nance and upgrad­ing as I rode by. One of the more inter­est­ing units was this track tam­per, I think quite fas­ci­nat­ing. I found the YouTube below show­ing how the machine works. Here is the descrip­tion that with the orig­i­nal YouTube: “The mech­a­nism on the front lets the rest of machine know how much a cer­tain sec­tion of track needs to be raised. Then, a claw picks up the rail and ties and spikes poke down into the bal­last, push­ing it under the track. Once the tam­per com­plet­ed its job, a bal­last reg­u­la­tor came through to smooth out the rocks.”

 Posted by at 11:16 am

Joshua Tree during a very special Spring

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Mar 082019
 
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