soliver
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What is you wife's "kite"
Ok, so in the last year, I've pretty much gone crazy crack addict style over kiting, I'm sure you can relate.
You know, ...spent a lot of money, joined a forum, on the computer when I'm not at the field flying, ... it consumes all the free thought... as I
said, I'm sure you can relate.
So amidst my own blossoming addiction, my dear sweet wife was honing her own. She has gotten into scrapbooking,... no not just stickers and fancy
paper, we're talking all out paper craft insanity,... with machines, apparatus, paint, glue, pens, etc. etc. etc. and a majority of a room in the
house devoted to it,... and what's more, she BLOGS about it ( http://purplemailbox.blogspot.com/ if you're interested), and has gained some notoriety in the scapbooking world,... man, she's even been
PUBLISHED in an e-book,... we are talking online class taking, chatting, blogging, twittering, picture posting insanity. (I must say I'm proud of her
for the book though).
It's borderline epic.
So we ALL know what your addiction is,... what about your wife (or significant other),... what kind of "kiting" does she (or maybe he) do?
ps. she also blogs about gardening and knitting, but she's not as bonkers over that stuff.
HQ -- 2.1m symphony beach
-- The Quiver of Green:
PL-- 2.6m Viper S
PL-- 4m Core
PL-- 5.1m Core
PL-- 5.5m Reactor II (not green though)
and a bag full of single and double line stuff.
VTT Stinger-XR HYBRID BUGGY: Comp XR front fork, home brew downtube, stinger rails, black widow seat, etc etc etc...
BMK FRANKENBUGGY: now converted to the FRANKEN-TANDEM
Current PB,... 22.8 mph,... MAN THAT'S FAST!!!
Allow yourself to be moved by that which cannot be seen.
She blogs about scrapbooking,... what a nerd.
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mougl
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Location: Naples, FL
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Mood: Changing gears, changing direction. Change is good!
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I got lucky, Sheskas kite is a kite  she flies vipers. 2.6, 3.9, 5.3
Corsair Kite Buggies, You'll break before they do.
Dakitez Team Rider
www.Dakitez.com
NAPKA: US357
Quiver: Remodeling! Stay Tuned!
Wind speed does not matter. If you had fun, learned something, and came home safe, it was an epic session.
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heliboy50
Posts: 850
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Location: Vancouver, Wa
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Mood: Unreliable, but full of good intentions
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CeCe has a 1.7 sting and will sometimes fly some bigger stuff. Her biggest thing is is craft stuff especially making all kinds of bead necklaces.
She will spend hours going through thrift stores and clearance racks to find beads she likes.
Aim low. Reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.
Flying--Peter Lynn
Riding--Corsair QAR
NAPKA #US 666
__P1__ and one really big Ozone in the other closet
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WELDNGOD
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Her first was a !.7m sting. Now that I fly PKDs,she has laid claim to my 2.2m Buster soulfly. Handles only, and she can fly it very well too.
PKD
Combat 2.4/4.2
Century 5.5
Century II 2.8/8.0/10.0
Buster Soulfly 1.5/2.2/3.3
Buster Soulfly Pro 4.4
Flexifoil
Sting 1.7
Rage 2.5/3.5/4.7
Revolution 1.5 SLE
17 ply Custom TRAMPA w/ verTIGo trucks & titanium kingpins
2 homebrew buggies,1 homebrew KYTBYK,1 homebrew tandem trailer
LET YOUR SOULFLY!
PKD
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thanson2001ok
Posts: 812
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Location: Appleton, WI
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Mood: Mud season. Yeah, baby!
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All my kites are my wife's. I bought them for her. 
She is very generous and lets me use them anytime I want.
Yup.
Todd... NAPKA US59 \"Have you taught a kid to fly lately?\"
Ozone 4m, 10m AccessXC
PL 19m, 16m Venom | 10m, 13m Venom II | 17m Vortex | 3.8, 6.4 Reactors | 2.6m Viper | 2.3m Vapor | 6m, 9m, 15m Phantom | 22m Guerilla | 19m Charger
Flysurfer 8m, 12m DLX Unity |8m Outlaw| 19m Speed 2.5 SA
Action Vortex 6.6m Foil (FOR SALE) | Mac Bego 600
Flexifoil 1.2m, 2.4m Sting | 6.6m Blade III
The Original Flexifoil and Hawaiian Team Kite
Snow: Volant Alpine Skis | SnowBlades | PL Ice Buggy | PL KiteSled Land: Coyote Skates | Ivanpah Buggy
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soliver
Posts: 932
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Location: Marietta, GA
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Mood: Flexing my mad metacognitive skills...
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Just to be sure we're all on the same page,... aside from you lucky guys whose wives are into ACTUAL kites,... I'm using "kites" as a metaphor for
addiction, so...
What is your wife's addiction...
and no, not booze or crack,... you know what I mean,...
HQ -- 2.1m symphony beach
-- The Quiver of Green:
PL-- 2.6m Viper S
PL-- 4m Core
PL-- 5.1m Core
PL-- 5.5m Reactor II (not green though)
and a bag full of single and double line stuff.
VTT Stinger-XR HYBRID BUGGY: Comp XR front fork, home brew downtube, stinger rails, black widow seat, etc etc etc...
BMK FRANKENBUGGY: now converted to the FRANKEN-TANDEM
Current PB,... 22.8 mph,... MAN THAT'S FAST!!!
Allow yourself to be moved by that which cannot be seen.
She blogs about scrapbooking,... what a nerd.
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pokitetrash
Posts: 820
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Location: Aiken, SC
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Mood: Starting an old exercise program I used to do: 3 push-ups and a fart...oh yea. I'm an animal..
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Shopping. Actually its "....you bought a kite! " shopping. Grudge shopping.
Flexifoil Sting 2 1.7
Flexifoil Rage 2.5
Ozone Cult 2.5
Flexifoil 7m Blurr,5m Blurr, 3.5m Blurr,
Flexifoil/Bigfoot hybrid
BloKart with 4m, 5.5m sails
Kite Fort
NAPKA #41
SOFKA Member
"OOBE Field" dirt diver
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Cheddarhead
Posts: 662
Registered: 12-4-2009
Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin
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Mood: "If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over"....John Wooden
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| Quote: | Originally posted by thanson2001ok
All my kites are my wife's. I bought them for her.
She is very generous and lets me use them anytime I want.
Yup. |
I'm with you Todd..."Just bought you a kite hunny, can I borrow it"?
But seriously, my wife is REALLY into the DJ/Karaoke thing. Has her own business with all the equipment, been doin it for 14 years. She is such a
people person and really enjoys it for a hobby. Just wish I had 5 dollars for every piece of equipment I hauled over the years, I could have a quiver
of FlySurfers!
PL Viper S 6.8m
HQ beamer 4m
Reactor II 2.8m
Rev 1.5 SLE
What I ride:
Home brew buggy
Volkl race tiger DH 210
Volkl race carvers 198
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Drewculous
Posts: 3232
Registered: 4-14-2009
Location: Scottsbluff, Ne
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Mood: Official Tough Mudder 
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Reading... My wife reads! Got her a kindle a few years ago and its pretty well attatched... She also loves to travel, but travel is spendy, so she
has way more books ("e" and traditional)
I dig the travel too, but I like kites more... So we travel to jibe lol! She gets her fix, I get mine!
PL: Twister II 5.6m, Phantom 15m / 12m, 10m Synergy, JIBE Viper 5.3m, Charger 19m
HQ: Montana 4 12.5m, Apex 3 5m
Flexi: Blade ViP, Rage 1.8m \"lil Pepi!\"
FlexiFoot Bug / FlexDeck / MBS Core 95 / Custom Carbon Fiber MTH \"Monster Door\"
Corsair Crash Test Dummy (QC Suervisor  )
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Scudley
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Location: Vancouver
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Dusty's kite is pretty much one size smaller than what I'm flying. She also blogs about knitting.
S
Kite companies seem to be moving in opposite directions: Peter Lynn is making 24m kites, while Sky Country is making 8m speed wings.
Ozone Samurai 3m
Sky Country Reflex 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10m new 6m!
Sky Country Alasca 10m - sold
Rhombus Firebee 3m
Libre Vampir Race Pro 2.6m
Jojo Rage 8m
www.skycountry.ca |
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BeamerBob
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Scrapbooking is her yin to my yang.
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soliver
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Bob, you're originally from TN right,... is it a southern girl thing or what???
Additional info to the original post,... Ashli would like for me to let you all know that yes, I have gotten her to fly a kite,... I strapped her onto
the beamer and she gave it a go,... I'll get her more into it on the beach in a couple of weeks,... then maybe she'll REALLY get it. SCRAPPING BE
D@MNED!!!! ... and yes she is very supportive of kiting
and also, she is a little OCD about watching google thing that tells you who is on your site and how long and where they're from,... she's already
told me about how many hits she's gotten via PKF HAHAHA
nerd.
HQ -- 2.1m symphony beach
-- The Quiver of Green:
PL-- 2.6m Viper S
PL-- 4m Core
PL-- 5.1m Core
PL-- 5.5m Reactor II (not green though)
and a bag full of single and double line stuff.
VTT Stinger-XR HYBRID BUGGY: Comp XR front fork, home brew downtube, stinger rails, black widow seat, etc etc etc...
BMK FRANKENBUGGY: now converted to the FRANKEN-TANDEM
Current PB,... 22.8 mph,... MAN THAT'S FAST!!!
Allow yourself to be moved by that which cannot be seen.
She blogs about scrapbooking,... what a nerd.
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shaggs2riches
Posts: 1627
Registered: 10-4-2009
Location: Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Mood: low winds here I come
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My wife reads a lot. The past year or better she's been big about this fan fiction phenom. Writers taking characters from movies (big one is twilight)
and writti g short stories with those characters. I can't really think of Nything else she does.
what I fly/ride:
19m Flysurfer Speed 2 SA
12m Flysurfer Speed2
6m Ozone access xt
1.5m Ozone imp trainer
144cm Airush Switch
152cm lib tech skate banana
MBS Pro 90
Jereme Leafe Pro 95
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stetson05
Posts: 1492
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Location: Pasco, Washington
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Mood: wanted: wind please
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My wife's is crafts too. Embroidery, painting, some scrapbooking, and lots of paper type crafts. She will buy a $20 dollar book of paper and just
tears the pages out for the patterns. When she lets me buy a kite it is because she wants to get something comparable. It works out though cause I
get a kite and basicly she makes all the gifts she would ever give out and has even sold stuff to stores for them to sell.
Team Rider, 
US40
HQ 1.4m which my 8 and 10 year old fly
Pansh Flux 2m, Legend 3m,
HQ Hydra 300 PZ depower, Neo 8m, 11m
Flysurfer S2.5 19m
Flexboardz Haize
Radbuggy
SIMS snowboard
Crazy Fly 145
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BeamerBob
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Yes Soliver. She grew up in NC, got into scrapbooking in TN. It's great because it makes us better about taking pictures whenever we do something.
"If it's not in the scrapbook, it didn't happen".
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soliver
Posts: 932
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Location: Marietta, GA
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BeamerBob
Yes Soliver. She grew up in NC, got into scrapbooking in TN. It's great because it makes us better about taking pictures whenever we do something.
"If it's not in the scrapbook, it didn't happen". |
AHA! i knew it!!!
Well, Ashli and I met in art school, so we have both always been artsy fartsy people,... for her its more about the process than the pic,... she could
probably make a scrapbook page with a picture of fish heads look cool.
lord knows she's done a few about my kites,... those just HAD to be cool.
but she's still a nerd.
HQ -- 2.1m symphony beach
-- The Quiver of Green:
PL-- 2.6m Viper S
PL-- 4m Core
PL-- 5.1m Core
PL-- 5.5m Reactor II (not green though)
and a bag full of single and double line stuff.
VTT Stinger-XR HYBRID BUGGY: Comp XR front fork, home brew downtube, stinger rails, black widow seat, etc etc etc...
BMK FRANKENBUGGY: now converted to the FRANKEN-TANDEM
Current PB,... 22.8 mph,... MAN THAT'S FAST!!!
Allow yourself to be moved by that which cannot be seen.
She blogs about scrapbooking,... what a nerd.
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pbc
Posts: 571
Registered: 5-9-2009
Location: Gainesville, FL
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Mood: Still buzzin\' from my visit to the playa
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At my house the spousal vice is tennis. 5-6 days a week is normal. My son is pretty well hooked as well, but he only has a 2-3 day/week habit.
Scorpion 10 * Scorpion 13 * Phantom II 15
Peel 10UL * Sputnik 3UL * Quadtrac 3
Peter Lynn XR+ * Peter Lynn Comp
Philip Chase * US 352
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Feyd
Posts: 1597
Registered: 1-3-2009
Location: North Conway New Hampshire USA
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Mood: It\'s an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.-Keith Richards
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I'm feelin' pretty lucky. My wife flies everthing I do.
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WELDNGOD
Posts: 4142
Registered: 10-11-2006
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My wife's addiction is..... are ya ready for this? FISHING! I took her offshore fishing ONCE, and she caught a sailfish... Now she's a full blown
fishing nut. She always liked to go fishing, but now she CRAVES it.
PKD
Combat 2.4/4.2
Century 5.5
Century II 2.8/8.0/10.0
Buster Soulfly 1.5/2.2/3.3
Buster Soulfly Pro 4.4
Flexifoil
Sting 1.7
Rage 2.5/3.5/4.7
Revolution 1.5 SLE
17 ply Custom TRAMPA w/ verTIGo trucks & titanium kingpins
2 homebrew buggies,1 homebrew KYTBYK,1 homebrew tandem trailer
LET YOUR SOULFLY!
PKD
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soliver
Posts: 932
Registered: 12-15-2011
Location: Marietta, GA
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Mood: Flexing my mad metacognitive skills...
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WG,... that's pretty freekin' cool
HQ -- 2.1m symphony beach
-- The Quiver of Green:
PL-- 2.6m Viper S
PL-- 4m Core
PL-- 5.1m Core
PL-- 5.5m Reactor II (not green though)
and a bag full of single and double line stuff.
VTT Stinger-XR HYBRID BUGGY: Comp XR front fork, home brew downtube, stinger rails, black widow seat, etc etc etc...
BMK FRANKENBUGGY: now converted to the FRANKEN-TANDEM
Current PB,... 22.8 mph,... MAN THAT'S FAST!!!
Allow yourself to be moved by that which cannot be seen.
She blogs about scrapbooking,... what a nerd.
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bigkid
Posts: 2482
Registered: 4-12-2009
Location: the office with tons of video and pictures
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Mood: Overloaded, but glad to have the Tour over. Thinking about the next one....
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I don't know if I would like a wife that fishes, unless I liked it to. WG, you better not throw that one back.
Renee has a Kindle and the Kindle Fire, she goes through a book every 3 to 4 days. Now that she has a motorhome, we have to GO a couple times a
month. As long as I can drive it on and off the beach at Sunset and others, she is happy to let me go along. I watch the addiction grow as the
upgrades are coming faster and with more expense. Can we put a washer/drier in the RV, or should we buy a newer Coach with one already in it? I wish
she was into scrapbooking
But I wouldn't trade her for nuthin, anything you want my love. hehehe
Jeff,
LIBRE buggies-kites, FLEXBOARDZ atb\'s, PKD kites. and lots and lots of other stuff 
Skype - bigkidkites
NAPKA-US52
NABSA-us20nw
Big kids are nothing more than little kids that know how to act in public...er.. so I have been told.
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WELDNGOD
Posts: 4142
Registered: 10-11-2006
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Mood: PREPARED TO LAUNCH....
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Jeff. I love to fish. just not as much as I like kiting.
PKD
Combat 2.4/4.2
Century 5.5
Century II 2.8/8.0/10.0
Buster Soulfly 1.5/2.2/3.3
Buster Soulfly Pro 4.4
Flexifoil
Sting 1.7
Rage 2.5/3.5/4.7
Revolution 1.5 SLE
17 ply Custom TRAMPA w/ verTIGo trucks & titanium kingpins
2 homebrew buggies,1 homebrew KYTBYK,1 homebrew tandem trailer
LET YOUR SOULFLY!
PKD
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