Usually the best place I have found to fly a kite is at the beach, but yesterday it was blustery all day long and the temperature outside was great (in the low 70's) and the sky was all blue here in my corner of of East Tennessee! I had a bought a simple 3' kite at Walmart back in January and a line reel that was easy to let out line and roll it back in. I had tried this kite only one other time in March at Founders s park near downtown but the winds were low and my running too slow to get the kite up and going. I was thinking, "One day I am going to get this kite up in the air...One day!"
Prior to yesterday my most successful kite flying time was at the beach in December. But on Tuesday, May the 2nd, I headed over to Willow Spring Park with my muti-colored kite with a 15 ' long tail and my kite string all rolled up on the red circular reel because it was windy and it was five thirty in the evening; Bill was home from work and out the door to go running with the trail gang.
So I decided to go and try and fly my kite in this one sport what seemed to be the perfect space.
I got to the park in just a few minutes and of course, when I got out of my car, the wind died down, and I thought to myself "if I can't get this kite up in 3 tries then I am going back home, so 'come on win'd!" I put the kite down, rolled out about 10 yards of line and made a couple of pulls on it while I took a couple of steps and it was up, and it kept going up!
I was elated. I needed a picture, because Bill would not believe how high it was going! So I put the line reel under my left arm while I dug for my cell phone in my right pocket with my right hand. The line was almost at the end, i would say 300 ft up in the beautiful sky, for sure. Finally, I had my phone and I tried to find the kite in the camera frame but there was too much light and i was just taking pics and video ..like in the dark. And then, the wind took the kite and the reel out from my grasp and the red 12 in diameter circular reel went bouncing and hopping away through the grass and butterups at a speed faster than this 54 year old woman could go!
I was thinking "I am running after this reel and kite like it is a twenty dollar bill (and, YES< I would even run after a ten or five dollar bill, but not as long. I was looking for someone walking whose path might intersect my speeding kite reel but saw none, so I put my head down to make one, last push toward the reel, and when I looked up it was gone!!!
OH, but my kite was still flying high over the adjacent property, and then I saw the reel. It was lodged about thirty feet up in a cedar tree in the tree line separating the properties. OH well, I was sad but happy as well. My kite was flying high but not under my care any more. I hope all the people at the park the other evening got to wonder .."Whose kite is that way up in the sky?" HUMMMMMM.....
read on to the next blog about what I found after I lost my kite..
Judy
May 3, 2017
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