March is for Kite Flying Fun!

Mar 1st March is for Kite Flying Fun!

March 1^st, was one of my favorite days as a child, it meant spring was right around the corner with warmer days. Traditionally, March is a windy month, perfect for flying Kites. Cutting the diamond shapes out of colorful construction paper, adding yarn tails was also part of the fun. We taped the kites to the classroom windows making our environment brighter.

Funny how those nostalgic memories stay with you. This morning I woke up with the wind whistling around the house and an urge to cut out kite shapes and adhere them to the windows of my home.

A kite is traditionally a tethered heavier-than-air craft with wing surfaces catch the wind to create life and drag. The flying creation consists of winds, tethers, pulleys, and anchors. In other words, you attach your string to the bridle of your kite and run like the devil until it catches a gust, release it and you watch it bounce, dance and tug on the air currents, higher and higher until it becomes a tiny speck in the bright blue spring sky. Or it takes a nose dive into the ground. Hopefully doesn’t happen to often.

As children we also made kites out of newspapers and tore up rags to make tails those flew pretty good. Nothing compared to the kites now days.

I’m still enamored with kites and own a box kite, dragon kite, a couple stunt kites. March is the month to fly them. Well, mostly. I have to admit that I’ve lost or crashed a couple kites due to strong wind gusts or stronger sustained winds of over 30 mph. No, it wasn’t blowing like that when I started, but the kite was high in the sky, the wind picked up snapping the line, and the kite was never seen again. I’ve also had a baffle kite pick me off my feet and transport me across the field or park I was flying it in. Dangers of flying a kite in Colorado! LOL