Go Fly A Kite!

With so many devices on which humans can now take pictures, it's no surprise that some get by me. 

These pictures were on G'ma's phone and I loaded them to our computer last month when we took family pics.  Didn't look thru them other than the family photos... until tonight.

This was back in late Spring or early Summer when we were up at G'ma and G'pa's house.  We went over to G'mas sister Karen's house to visit and Marlen had a little surprise for the boys. His kites.

One is the standard run of the mill kite that you would get kids knowing that they would likely soon after have it ruined.  The other was a big daddy of a kite complete with the long tails n' such.

Very cool.

Not as cool was the fact that the wind was very intermittent so while getting the kite up off of the ground was not a huge challenge, keeping it there or elevating it higher, was.

One of the better runs!

Marlin doing the old between the leg flying the kite trick... or something.  That's me in the background with Caleb trying to get the other kite launched.  The big kite fared much better.

And so it went for a while until we all got damp (it was sprinkling on and off too) and tired.