Whoo!
Beach. Lincoln City beach, to be precise. Flew kites.
I've got access to about 12 kites now - a dual-line Trlby (and an add-on, to fly in train!) a cheap little stand-off dual-line stunter, a floppy blue/purple dual-line delta, a 45' dragon (with a dragon on it! ^^) a large diamond kite, two box kites (one standard, one that rotates as it flies - Mom's, /very/ impressive), a DC (delta-conye - the delta kite with the triangle keel), a paper fighter kite (too pretty to fly - but maybe someday..) .. Mom has an 'indoor' kite - a tiny dragonfly, and .. oh! I have a skate-board kite. *grins* Never flown it.
What was flown today, before the wind started blowing too hard, was the trlby (and later the pair, after I bought the add-on) and the roto-box. Got complements on the roto - /should have/ gotten pics! Ah well, we'll go again, and take Mom with. ^.~
I also discovered that the guy who runs Flying Things (one of the kite shops in Lincoln City) has light wind kites! The Beetle - a good light wind stunter, and what looked like a Wren. Might actually have been the Pro Wren, but I'm not sure - I'd need to take the catalogue and ask /lots/ of questions next I go. ^_~
(Anyone who's curious can go to Into the Wind and poke around - there's some beautiful wind art and yard decorations too.)
Anyway, good day. Tired, a bit - and sandy. I managed to hit myself in the face with the winders when I was launching the Trlby - it's a bitch to launch them all by yourself when you can't get the kite to stay down long enough for you to run back and grab the other end... that's what kept me getting the blue and purple delta airborne....... Single line - easy. Hold it up - wind grabs it - you're in business. Dual-line? ... Get a helper. I did get it flying, finally. Not too long after that, my 'Helper' got it's lines untangled! (I was using the lines for the cheap stand-off - I should wind 80' or so of dacron onto those winders - I dunno /what/ that stuff is that's on them now)
There was a guy there - he turned up a little after we did - who had a matched PAIR of dual-line kites he was flying. I think he had one in each hand, but I could be wrong - he was using a pair of quad-line handles, and I was too busy fighting with the blue and purple kite to either take pictures or go and ask him about it. Now, of course - I wish I'd done /both/! ^^
Oh oh oh! My fish came. *smirk* I now have a gold and black (with pale markings) betta. He's /gorgeous/. The tank of course, is still in the works. *shrugs* My Dad is working on the shelf - he forgot about it. Heh. Now all I have to do is rearrange everything. Again. *chuckles* Nothin' permanent, in here.. Nothing.
Beach. Lincoln City beach, to be precise. Flew kites.
I've got access to about 12 kites now - a dual-line Trlby (and an add-on, to fly in train!) a cheap little stand-off dual-line stunter, a floppy blue/purple dual-line delta, a 45' dragon (with a dragon on it! ^^) a large diamond kite, two box kites (one standard, one that rotates as it flies - Mom's, /very/ impressive), a DC (delta-conye - the delta kite with the triangle keel), a paper fighter kite (too pretty to fly - but maybe someday..) .. Mom has an 'indoor' kite - a tiny dragonfly, and .. oh! I have a skate-board kite. *grins* Never flown it.
What was flown today, before the wind started blowing too hard, was the trlby (and later the pair, after I bought the add-on) and the roto-box. Got complements on the roto - /should have/ gotten pics! Ah well, we'll go again, and take Mom with. ^.~
I also discovered that the guy who runs Flying Things (one of the kite shops in Lincoln City) has light wind kites! The Beetle - a good light wind stunter, and what looked like a Wren. Might actually have been the Pro Wren, but I'm not sure - I'd need to take the catalogue and ask /lots/ of questions next I go. ^_~
(Anyone who's curious can go to Into the Wind and poke around - there's some beautiful wind art and yard decorations too.)
Anyway, good day. Tired, a bit - and sandy. I managed to hit myself in the face with the winders when I was launching the Trlby - it's a bitch to launch them all by yourself when you can't get the kite to stay down long enough for you to run back and grab the other end... that's what kept me getting the blue and purple delta airborne....... Single line - easy. Hold it up - wind grabs it - you're in business. Dual-line? ... Get a helper. I did get it flying, finally. Not too long after that, my 'Helper' got it's lines untangled! (I was using the lines for the cheap stand-off - I should wind 80' or so of dacron onto those winders - I dunno /what/ that stuff is that's on them now)
There was a guy there - he turned up a little after we did - who had a matched PAIR of dual-line kites he was flying. I think he had one in each hand, but I could be wrong - he was using a pair of quad-line handles, and I was too busy fighting with the blue and purple kite to either take pictures or go and ask him about it. Now, of course - I wish I'd done /both/! ^^
Oh oh oh! My fish came. *smirk* I now have a gold and black (with pale markings) betta. He's /gorgeous/. The tank of course, is still in the works. *shrugs* My Dad is working on the shelf - he forgot about it. Heh. Now all I have to do is rearrange everything. Again. *chuckles* Nothin' permanent, in here.. Nothing.
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