Let's go fly a kite! (105/365a)

Some people from Tara's airbnb had left gigantic "marshmallow skewers" behind, so I begged her for them, and the kids used them to make kites yesterday. There wasn't much wind, yesterday, and it was super hot and we were hiking most of the day.

Today was cool, and there was a soft breeze, and then a storm picked up so suddenly you couldn't believe it, and we started trying to fly our homemade kites - Benjamin Franklin style - in a gale of a thunderstorm. We could barely open the house door the winds picked up so quickly. Henry abandoned his kite for an umbrella. We all got soaked. There was really way too much wind for any kite, and I got tasked with untangling a few meters of kite string that had gotten super tangled when Theodore had flown the kite for about one and a half minutes.

Making the kites yesterday:

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Flying the kites today.

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We also finished watching Bedtime for Bonzo today, at Bedtime for Grandma time. Kids were fighting and difficult, so they went to sleep "early" at 9pm.

I finished transcribing Grandma's diary today. 37 pages of....... "worked. nice day." and "did not work. programs swell. cold."

It was so interesting to get a perspective on everyday life from then. I loved the little interesting pops of anecdote, with wry sarcastic humor that you only see if you read a lot of entries. It really really really makes me want to make any record keeping as transparent and accessible as possible. I would love to know who "joe" was, or what "the pains" were that mother had, but there's no one to ask. She also loved yodeling! Who knew? We asked her today about yodeling, and she just laughed and said "No, I don't do that." She loved Georgia Mae, who was known as Yodeling Cowgirl. You should listen!