Summer and I kited yesterday, finding enough wind on the ENE side to get our kites in the air over the cornfield. The dogs walked over our strings a couple of time and we did have some nosedives, but finally, they were up. It was a marginal day and once my unicorn kites zoomed for the corn only to pull up at the last minute.

THEN, Summer’s kite string crossed mine and her kite started to come down, and eventually it did. My kite was left flying from the spot on the grass where its string had come down. I should have run up and grabbed the string where it came out from under Summer’s string, but I thought I could wind my way to it quickly. Wrong. Almost there and the kite started down and I couldn’t jerk the string to send it back up. One of the reasons I didn’t drop the spool and run to the crossed point is because I saw a dog staring at me, thinking. “She’ll drop that spool and I will run and get all tangled in it.”

So we hauled it in through a sea of corn tassels and went in and watched a couple of VHS movies. Then we picked up and came home.

Today is overcast and dark and still. Perhaps the atmosphere is influenced by the kids’ knowledge that tomorrow is the first day of school.

And I must get all spiffed up – well, a minor spiffing. Oh, and I need to measure my neck circumference because I could not resist coughing up 36 dollars for this necklace.