GO FLY A KITE!

This past weekend, even though I was quite ill, I did not want to miss the "Kite Fest" at South Padre Island. 

We had seen it a couple of years ago, and now that I heard it was back, I was not going to miss it. 

It certainly did not disappoint.  

These are some of the large stationary kites on display.

 You really can't tell from my photos, but they are huge.  

And sometimes difficult to control.  

But, when the wind is right, they are quite impressive.  

At some points, you don't quite know where to look next.  

Some really weird ones.

 And some quite artistic ones. 

 Then, there are the competitive kite fliers, that fly their kites in beautifully planned  routines choreographed to music. 

Each one very different, showing off their talents.  

Then we move into the really breath taking part of the kite show, with the team flying. 

This is made up of teams of four fliers synchronizing the movement of their kites with each other. 

In a planned out routine all to a specific piece of music.

 These routines are breath taking. 

My pictures certainly can not do it justice, 

I watch this and I keep saying, "How do they not get their kites tangled up together?"

They fly around each other like birds. 

And of course they use clear almost invisible kite strings, you can hardly see them. 

Still photos don't really capture it, very well, but I didn't really know how to use the video on my camera very well. 

I did manage to get one small video clip of this breath taking action.  This is something I have to work on.

 I got another much longer one but it is full of starts and stops and shots of the ground and my crotch then more kites then Dan's crotch as we both put the camera in our laps not realizing it was still recording.  So now I have to take a DAMNED course in video editing.  WENDY! HELP! 

LET'S GO FLY A KITE!

I'VE BEEN SICK

Well, if anyone is wondering why I have not been blogging.  It is because I have been ill.  I am finally starting to get back to normal.  I have had what us winter Texans call "The Texas Crud".  Which hits very suddenly with fever and aches and when those subside you are left with extreme cold symptoms.    

Fortunately, I had some "C-packs" left here from last year.  These are the Cure, which we buy down in Mexico.  It works for me every time.  From the first sign of fever on Friday night, to being up and about by Tuesday.  

So now it's catch-up time.  We went to the "Kite Fest" on South Padre Island on the weekend, so next I will sort out the pictures and do a blog about it.  Stay tuned.  

 

IT'S A SCORCHER TODAY!

I was planning on cooking a roast for Sunday Dinner today, but it is already 81 degrees and I didn't think putting the oven on today was a good idea.I thought Salad and Pasta or something similar would keep the trailer cooler and allow us to sit out for most of the day and enjoy the outdoors. 

This is the weather we came here for so I'm certainly not complaining.  Then Dan had the brilliant idea of opening up Dwight's trailer and putting my roast on in there.  We could still have our roast and keep our trailer nice and cool without having to live with A/C which I hate.  

So, that was what we did.  

 

We sat out all afternoon with the pot roast cooking in Dwight's trailer.  It was a gorgeous day the high reached 89 or 90 degrees.  

Sea-Enna loves it when she gets to spend the whole day outside.  

AND THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT TEXAS

 

IT'S AN INDOOR RAINY KINDA DAY TODAY

Well, I've finished producing and printing my Park newspaper, so I can relax again until the third week in February.  

It's raining outside and the temperature is only going to go up to the mid to high 60s.  

This is a good day to use up my leftover beef and veggies from my Sunday's pot roast Dinner and make a big pot of home made soup.  

 Then curl up and watch a movie.

COMFORT FOOD FOR A RAINY INDOOR DAY 

 

AND NOW IT'S ON TO A LONG WARM SPRING

I certainly have been lax about keeping up my blog this past week.  Time just seems to fly by. We certainly haven't been busy doing really exciting things.  Just busy.

Since last I blogged, I had my 74th Birthday.

Then we went out Dancing at Siesta Village on Saturday night.

I helped Dan make some Brownies (which I almost ruined) for his Burger night.  

Plus I have been busy working on our Park Newspaper.  

Meanwhile the temperatures are creeping up a little higher every week from the lows around new years.  Today's high is going to be 78, which is just the way I like it.   So, I will try to tear myself away from my computer and get some outdoor chores done.  

TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN AND EVEN WHEN YOU'RE NOT.

IT'S COOL AND RAINY THIS WEEK

Here we are the second week in January and it's a little cool and rainy here in Paradise this week.  Today we got a break in the clouds, so Dan is busy with little projects.  

He has decided it's a good day to pick a bunch of grapefruit from our trees. 

It's not exactly a sitting out on the patio day, for me, but Sea-Enna loves it anyway.  And Dan did manage to get us enough grapefruit to do us for a couple of weeks. 

When I say cool and rainy, that's by Texas standards, not by Manitoba standards. The highs this week are only getting up to the mid sixties, but the sun is supposed to come out and be in the 70s by this weekend.  

SO, THIS TOO WILL PASS

HUMMINGBIRDS

I have hung a hummingbird feeder outside my dinette window. 

I have had a constant array of the green/blue iridescent humming birds visiting.  

 And on rare  occasions this beautiful little copper and white hummingbird visits.  

Now I even have a golden finch deciding to dine at my feeder as well.  But I think I am going to have to scare him off, as he seems to be bullying the hummingbirds.  We can't have that.  




AFTER ALL, IT IS A HUMMINGBIRD FEEDER