Tag: kites
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September 29, 2007 08:55 AM EDT --
...You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground.
You run with them until you are both breathless.
They crash ~ you add a longer tail.
Finally they are airborne, but they need more . . .
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August 02, 2009 02:18 PM EDT --
I finished reading The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini on Saturday. I absolutely loved this book. I definitely rank this book in my top ten favorite books of all time.
I know . . .
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June 24, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
Brenton Point in Newport is where Narragansett Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. There's a state park there, with a memorial to the Potuguese explorers (there's a large Portuguese population in the . . .
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March 22, 2009 03:44 PM EDT --
I have a bunch of the grandkids for the weekend so yesterday afternoon we went out to fly kites. The day was perfect. A little chill but not uncomfortable and the wind was perfect. . . .
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April 02, 2009 09:09 PM EDT --
Looks like Nippy is really having quite a "high" time.
This 'frog sighting' was captured by the camera of a mysterious silver-maned snoop (who shall remain nameless for . . .
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March 23, 2007 07:51 PM EDT --
A late offering for the unofficial Gatherers Appreciation Day.
Freed Verses
So I’ve liberated four from the drawer.
They’re happy to be out and about.
Andrea had asked, . . .
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October 01, 2007 11:50 AM EDT --
This is problematic. I say leave the comments and let people know who the "rude crew" is. This is a group of Gatherers who enjoy posting mean and negative remarks. They editorialize . . .
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July 05, 2009 08:43 PM EDT --
I went out to Brenton Point State Park today to watch people fly kites. Brenton Point is the perfect place for this, being where Narragansett Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, so there's always a breeze out . . .
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September 13, 2008 02:07 AM EDT --
This is a little light reading if you want to take a break from the intensity of all the political posts. I actually wrote this last summer, after their visit. This summer has not been quite . . .
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July 10, 2007 05:16 PM EDT --
I have just finished reading The Kite Runner and I must say I really enjoyed this book. I was not all that familiar with events that have happened in Afghanistan and this book, . . .
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October 27, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
(Excerpt from "The Sting Of The Gadfly," Gregory Allen Doyle, LifeVest Publishing, Centennial, Colorado, 2005, pp. 166-171.)
for Carra
I have mentioned it elsewhere, but this bears . . .
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September 01, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Every year we would go on vacation. Even if we went camping or somewhere else for a week, summer vacation just didn't seem like a vacation unless we went down the ocean. Ocean City, Maryland, that . . .
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August 06, 2006 01:04 PM EDT --
{14 photos, for those gathering on dial-up}
we went to lake michigan on friday night, to grand haven. the waves were large, and everyone had a wonderful time. we had a picnic with delicious subs from . . .
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March 02, 2008 05:02 AM EST --
Well here I am still on my granddaughter's computer. Hubby is working on getting mine up and running again. Hoping by tomorrow it will be up and going. He said things are looking . . .
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September 04, 2008 11:05 AM EDT --
Again, these are all beach photos. I think I was just too busy anywhere else to take out the camera! lol!
My daughter Loralei playing in the sand:
Kite flying was popular this day!
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July 29, 2007 03:02 PM EDT --
It was a time when a newspaper page, some flour and water became paste, and a cross made from dead goldenrods became a kite that quite never flew right.
www.ronnierayjenkins.com
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December 06, 2005 07:42 PM EST --
Three Kites in the April Sky
To support myself while I worked on my program in graduate school I got a job as a "freshman adviser" for the Collegeof Liberal Arts. My job was to help freshmen . . .
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March 08, 2007 11:35 PM EST --
I love kite day.
Sorry. Wish I could think of something snarky, or clever or ironic to say about kite day, but I can’t. My bad. Revoke my blogger’s license.
Kite day at . . .
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March 26, 2008 03:13 AM EDT --
"The Kite Runner" is based on the bestseller by the same title, authored by Khaled Hosseini. Marc Forster is the German-born, Swiss director of the film. The movie stayed true . . .
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January 10, 2009 05:52 PM EST --
Dream:
We were all in the park at the end of my street, flying kites, late in the afternoon (note: in real life, this park is not all that great a place to fly kites; there are too many trees, . . .
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