Let’s Go Fly a Kite

Posted on Monday 13 March 2006

When the wind blows, the kite comes out.

Music: David Tomlinson & Dick Van Dyke – Let’s Go Fly a Kite

22 Comments for 'Let’s Go Fly a Kite'

  1.  
    March 14, 2006 | 12:53 am
     

    The wind was blowing so hard someone could have probably put you on a string and flew you all over the sky!

    I was scared to death Spiderman was going to go into the power lines!

    Great video Josh. Keep up the GREAT work!

  2.  
    March 14, 2006 | 3:53 am
     

    I was feeling so blue today, but your video made me feel happy again.

    Please take care!

    http://beccavlog.blogspot.com

  3.  
    March 14, 2006 | 9:13 am
     

    It was CRAZY windy!!

  4.  
    March 14, 2006 | 1:26 pm
     

    I had real tumblin’ tumbleweeds in my office parking lot!

    http://www.bubbaraylove.com/revue.html

  5.  
    March 14, 2006 | 4:32 pm
     

    Generally, I scorn the little teenybopper saying:”LOL”. I don’t know why it makes my skin crawl. But you actually did make me laugh out loud…when it looked like the kite attacked you. And by the way, you need a haircut!

  6.  
    Anonymous
    March 14, 2006 | 5:31 pm
     

    I like your hairstyle. You remind me of the guy from that 70’s show.

  7.  
    March 14, 2006 | 7:32 pm
     

    I’m glad Spidey made it into the air, finally! For a minute it seemed more like you were being attacked by a kite.

  8.  
    March 14, 2006 | 10:50 pm
     

    kites are fun. i like how they fly and stuff!

  9.  
    March 15, 2006 | 12:43 am
     

    When you said it was really windy I had visions of a gentle breeze me living in one of the windiest states and all(mostely because of lack of tree) but holy that wind was strong. I wouldn’t have even ventured out of my door. Wonderful post as all of your post usually are. Watching kites flying really brings back childhood. I usually wasn’t so successful to say the least but that’s a different story.

    Wonderful post,
    Evan (http://e-vlog.blogspot.com)

    P.S. Thanks for signing up for my site Josh. I am planning to take a different direction with it. Maybe new PHP code or a new host. I’ll keep you posted.

  10.  
    March 15, 2006 | 11:17 am
     

    I love your outdoor adventures – this was great from start to finish. It’s been ages since I’ve flown a kite, you’ve inspired me.

  11.  
    Jen
    March 15, 2006 | 11:47 am
     

    Josh Leo your the coolest!

  12.  
    March 15, 2006 | 4:23 pm
     

    You ought to make your own power wind turbine down there.

  13.  
    March 15, 2006 | 11:33 pm
     

    Good thing you didn’t buy a bigger kite, I’m sure it would have taken you away with it!

  14.  
    March 16, 2006 | 1:35 am
     

    I’ll love it when veer you get a ‘vlogging-partner’ that will help you make the shots. I mean, if being alone you makes this good shots, I can’t imagine what you’ll eventually do with a second person.

    At least it flew a few seconds. And yeah, THAT was a lot of wind…

  15.  
    March 16, 2006 | 1:34 pm
     

    Such a Charlie Brown moment . . . Rachel and I gave up on cheap kites a long time ago! It’s all about the two-handled stunt kites now–but I don’t think we’d ever try them in winds like that!!

  16.  
    March 17, 2006 | 5:35 pm
     

    It’s too windy I kept thinking to myself. Way too windy. Its never gonna fly, I thought. You gave it a fighting try though and what kind of fun would it have been in a gentle breeze anyway. None. No carnage. No breaking braces. No plastic flapping violently in the hurricane force winds. Thanks for sharing. Always fun to watch.

  17.  
    March 18, 2006 | 5:06 am
     

    I think if you would’ve tied a crunched beer can to the tail, it might’ve flown a little better, and with the way that wind was blowing, maybe two beers cans…certainly brings back memories, of paper kites, launched and left about a mile up.

  18.  
    March 18, 2006 | 6:10 pm
     

    Oh NO Josh! We got those same winds a day later and they were wickedly wild. I had to stay the night at a friends in town because it was too dangerous to drive home with all the blowing snow and the like.

    I liked how I could hear the wind howling in the background when you were introducing the post.

    I totally knew the kite wasn’t going to fly, and was pleasently entertained when it began to attack you.

  19.  
    March 22, 2006 | 1:29 am
     

    I think I’ve got a solution to Josh’s problem:
    http://www.puppetkites.net/?p=120

  20.  
    March 26, 2006 | 7:57 pm
     

    If you would have had a “Batman” kite it would have held up and flown as beatiful as a rose on a summer morning…………. Hey I call myself Batman Geek what did you expect……….. :)

  21.  
    March 28, 2006 | 10:41 am
     

    You know, after watching this, we were in wal-mart, and I bought both the kids kites… ;)
    Hey, can you tell me how you get the commenting to look so neat–is it a plugin or something? Send me an email. :)

  22.  
    April 4, 2006 | 11:15 pm
     

    [...] I can’t believe this kite even flies in this light of wind. It’s full of holes . This video shows my first test flight from today. The story of this kite is Josh tried to fly this same kite in strong gusty winds, then I offered a solution. As the story usually goes, as soon as you make a kite for strong winds, you don’t get strong winds for months… but I was still curious to see if it would even fly at all . [...]

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