You go out to fly. There's great wind, so you get out your gear, run the lines, assemble and attach your kite...
You get back and pick up the handles...
...and the wind dies.
Does this ever happen to you? It happens almost every day to me. It is the Anch-Morpork wind on average. I've often considered simply camping out and catching that 6am wind that always happens. In the Summer here that's not so bad, because we have the 24-hour sunlight ... but the Winter isn't quite the same.
I still ha
Forecast: "Northeast wind 10 to 15 mph except east 40 to 55 mph along Turnagain Arm and higher elevations"
I added that because they haven't been right for weeks. They get the wind right everywhere except in Anch-Morpork. Last night's forecast said "variable 5 to 15" ... Right now the wind is swapping North to South every few minutes, making it pretty well impossible for me to do much. I haven't been able to for quite awhile, which, for me, is actually a bad thing as I use the kiting to replace
Days worthy of blog entries...
There are some days that are just run of the mill... some you want to cuss at the wind more than anything else.... and others you can't stop thinking about.
Wednesday the 10th found us out in Palmer shopping around the typical places to fly, which there are a multitude of out there, but it is a matter of what is accessible. Made one trip around the fairgrounds and the prime location hadn't even had a path plowed through it. Revert to selection #2 where there is
