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  • So Many Kites, So Little Time

    I just  read a post by a fellow kite junkie who was  lamenting the fact that there are so many facets of the kite hobby, he is torn to do them all.  This can be a most disturbing conundrum for some of us.  Apparently the lure of the adrenaline pumping power kites is taking a…

  • Audreys Day Turns 12

    Every summer the families with Down Syndrome children come and spend a wonderful day enjoying the sea, wind, sun, food, and fun at Rockport’s Beach Park. Kite fliers come from surrounding clubs and entertain the families with displays and demos for the entire day, the joy in those little faces make the hearts of the…

  • Air Traffic Controllers Needed!!

    It has been some months since the latest of the events that brought this subject to mind, but with the 12th Annual Audrey’s Day just weeks away it reminds me that not all events are so well oiled. The scenario is somewhat like this: a city, or other fine, well-meaning civic organization sees media coverage…

  • Art Made in Nylon

    I like to make things out of nylon materials, it all started when my daughter and I owned a “mobile” kite shop in the local beach park and we needed some attention-getting “flags” to draw the public . I had a couple of feather banners from the kite companies, but wanted more “splash”. Being a…

  • Soggy, boggy, and sorry kite weather.

    This past week has been a real drag for a kite flying fanatic.  It has been filled with daily deluges of water from heavy sky’s, most notable with flash flooding through the Coastal Bend, very heavy in places. So what do you do??  Well, you go online and research other folks having fun at kite…

  • The Art of Kite Making

    Originally posted on Clay Center Ed-Ventures: March is a very windy month and to me that means one thing…kite flying! Kites have a long and interesting history. They are thought to have been invented in China. Kites first appeared in the wars of the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC – 476 BC). In the…

  • EMPTY HOLES IN THE SKY

    That is the term we use in the  kiting community when a flier passes away, leaving a hole where his kites used to be.  There have been two such holes in as many weeks, one was a Region 8 flier whom I did have the honor to know, the other I was not acquainted with…

  • Why No Outcry??

    Watched a Netflix today called Attack on Darfur. The thing that struck me so hard was that for all the brutality and genocide that is and has been occurring in that land, we so rarely hear anything about it it here in our news feeds. I will admit that I am not a “media news”…

  • My First Blog Post

    i have been thinking a lot about doing a blog over the past few months, finally I got up the courage to do it, and this will be the first post. I will be writing a lot about my hobby and secondary passion,  namely , kiting and  other things “windy”.  Indeed since a young man…