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| Oct. 26/27 | I went to the Northern California
Kite Club Fall Campout... yeup camped in my new kitbag...
(Vanna). It turns out she is a good sleeper too! We
camped at a place called Woodward Reservoir about an hour from my house, out
near Oakdale. Unfortunately there was little to no wind there this weekend,
and the only things that were flying were the black flies.... Geesus I have
never seen so many flies in my life! We did have a great turnout, over 31
adults and about 6 or 7 kids! We did have enough food for a small army and
our annual Saturday night buffet dinner was awesome... incredible even!
Anyone that missed it really MISSED it! Seems like we spent all weekend
eating and trying to get a kite in the sky! I really enjoyed visiting with
every one and thanks everyone for attending the meeting, that went pretty
well!! I took some photos...
funny they are all of us sitting around and
eating!!
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| Oct. 19/20 | Went to the "Kites Over Pismo"
event! Pismo Beach is a great little town and a perfect setting for a
kite festival! We arrived Friday around 3 pm and got in a few great hours of
sweet wind flying. All the kiter's (well all the invited guests) stayed in
the Dolphin motel right on the beach, this gave us perfect parking and
partying spaces! Saturday was one of those one in a hundred
kiting days! Everything we put up just stayed up and we really packed the
sky! WHAT a day! The demo field was busy all day both days as was the
fighter kite field! Now if a perfect day was not enough the organizers
James and Kendra Warner and their crew provided a 5 or 6 piece kettle drum
band (or pan drums. I'm not sure what to call 55 gallon drums turned into
musical instruments)! At any rate this group really cranked out some great
music... and then the belly dancers showed up and entertained us for an hour
so so... tooo much! All this while we ate barbequed beast, chicken and
sausage... and don't forget the 13 pies and ice cream... geeses I went to
bed hurting!! Sundays wind was a bit disappointing as it never really
developed in to anything good and the fog never lifted till around 3, still
we managed to have plenty fun and fly and fiddle with kites all day. Again
they provides barbequed chicken sandwiches for lunch and kept us hydrated all
weekend with water, sodas beers and wine! The event was a great
success and all that attended are planning for next year!
Here are the event
pictures. Dan Whitney took a zillion pictures for everyone to check out!
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| Oct. 6 | Convention over... A group of us
went to Gettysburg P.A to tour the battlefield...WOW some photos of it here too
soon!
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| Oct. 5 | HOT and sweaty in Saturday,
to Dam hot and way low winds. Suffered out there as long as I could and headed in for a shower and clean clothes and headed to the awards
banquet and members choice kite voting. Man there was some great stuff
showed tonight and I took photos
of most of em. HEY, guess who
won the masters Precision event!!! Yeup, that would be me!!! 1st place out of
14 of the Nations best. Here is the
picture of my trophy!
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| Oct. 4 | Friday was loooong day
for the Masters pairs and teams competitors. It was a warm day and the winds
were perfect.... around 11 to 14 and way smooth. There were some great
routines ours as well. We never flew our ballet better than ever, man
we were on ...till I made the wrong turn right into Miguel and down went the
kites, we recovered ok but it was bad enough to knock us down to 4th out of
11... BUT we did get a third in the precision...We all got off the beach and
cleaned up in time to get to the auction Banquet. I took a bunch of photos
of the stuff up for auction and other stuff like my favorite
Newbies, first
time convention goers, Jim and Kim Kloenkner (I think). I had a good time
playing with them as I teased them as I got to know my new kite friends! Here
are today's pictures.
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| Oct. 3 | Today was HOT and sweaty. I didn't
like it much here today! Miguel and I tried to practice but found it less
than enjoyable in the humidity and loooow wind! However the evening
was great, we went to the fly mart, which was full of great stuff and
people. The highlight of the day was for sure the indoor competitions.
Before the event they presented an indoor show similar to the one they
presented at kites on ice... but without all the production stuff... it was
quite nice and the place had standing room only. The indoor competition was
fantastic.... I tried to get a photo of everyone (there was 11), but alas if
they weren't moving I was and some photos were BAD!!! Sorry if you didn't
make it into the gallery. Tonight is the auction Banquet, should be fun
with 500 kiter's in the same room!
Here are today's pictures. HAPPY POST BIRTHDAY SHARON!!
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| Oct. 2 | Well nirvana it may not
be!!! It was damn hot here today, specially when the wind was so light. It
eventually picked up around 1 ish this afternoon... and it never did get to the speed it did the last few
days.... BUT it was sweet and smooth as could be ~ I spent most ... well
ok all day on the sportkite fields... no chairs no shade! BUT I did
manage a 4th out of 14 in the masters Ballet and I am top three in the
masters precision!!!! It was an awesome field of fliers and surprised even
myself with that result!! there was lots of other stuff going on today but I
only managed some photos of the competitions and some shots of only a few of
the kitemaking kites being judged.
Here are today's pictures.
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| Oct. 1 | Hey it's Sharon Musto's
birthday today, if ya read this send her a
e-mail hello and happy b-day thought!!! HAPPY
BIRTHDAY SHARON, wish you were here! Today was fantastic! even the meeting I had to go to early this morning was not bad at all. The soooo sweet winds picked up around noon and everyone was HAPPY! The beach here are not all that wide but they are plenty looooong specially if you are walking down to field 1 geeesh! great kites in the sky all day, great competition And Aaron, my son did really great, he is top three in both his events... I think he firsted them both, but hey I'm partial! I'll try my hand at it tomorrow with two events. There was a party at one of the hotels, put on by "Go Fly A Kite". Which had a great live band, free food, and drinks... The place was packed, we are nearing 500 registered kiters!!! One word "FUN". Here are some of the photos I took today. Sorry I don't know who made all the kites.
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