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Idaho Kite Festival and other kiting happenings - Kiter's Blog - TheJHub.com http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter Mostly, I'll share information about what's going on with kiters in Idaho and in the kite world. Also, I'll share personal activities, progress on the annual Idaho Kite Festival (www.myspace.com/iskf), and announcements of other cultural, entertainment and educational events in my life; and discuss any of the above with readers. Mostly, I'll share information about what's going on with kiters in Idaho and in the kite world. Also, I'll share personal activities, progress on the annual Idaho Kite Festival (www.myspace.com/iskf), and announcements of other cultural, entertainment and educational events in my life; and discuss any of the above with readers. en-us oops http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/648 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/648 OK, I'm so lame I can't figure out how to make the error 2009 into 2008, so let this be a heads up that all of the next entry applies to <strong>2008!</strong> Idaho Kite Festival 2008 update http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/647 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/647 <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">IDAHO KITE FESTIVAL 2009 UPDATE</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Kite Festival plans continue to grow, and all events are free thanks to a grant from the Japanese American Citizens League legacy fund!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Here are some additions:</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><u>Cancer Support Group Kitemaking</u></strong> – September 15, 5 pm, PMC Oncology </font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Portneuf Medical Center cancer support group will make kites to celebrate survivors and memorialize friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Last year the group made beautiful breast cancer and war kites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This year kites from both years will be flown at the Festival in a special memorial fly. </font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Fall Children’s Festival</strong> – September 23, 4-6 pm, College of Southern Idaho</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Already on the schedule is kitemaking at the Asian Students Organization cultural arts festival in Twin Falls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Marshall Library Kitemaking</strong> – Oct 1, 113 South Garfield</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Already on the schedule is a workshop at Marshall – register at the library or call 232-1263.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <h1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><u><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">New Location for Flies</font></u></h1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The flying field on Thursday <strong><u>Oct 2 will be the church park</u></strong> adjacent to the Portneuf Library, who hosts kitemaking at 2 pm (register at the library or call 208.241.3215).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>After the workshop we’ll parade to the park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If you already have a kite please join us and fly!</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The flying field <strong><u>Oct 3-5 will be Tyhee School</u></strong> each day until 2:30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Soccer will take over the field at 3 pm, and we’ll move to afternoon workshop sites except for Sunday when the Festival will end at 2:30.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><em>Kitemaking with Tyhee students TBA.</em></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>Kitemaking With the Veterans</strong> - October 3, 7 pm, Memorial Building, 300 S. Johnson</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Come one, come all to make a kite with vets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Celebrate your favorite vets or memorialize a war, then fly them at the Festival in a special fly.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Flying field schedule:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This will include the veterans’ and cancer memorial flies, the teddy bear parachute jump, the fighter kite battle and other demonstrations, the 100 kite train flying over the Festival, and some prize contests for kids and kids at heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Because weather will be the biggest factor, we’ll have several days to put on events rather than the one shot we had last year (when it snowed two inches).</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The schedule will be loose so we can hold flying events as wind and weather allow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This gives us more opportunities to offer all events, so come out and be surprised and amazed!</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">FUN FLIES THIS YEAR, or THE TRAIN IS COMING….</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The JACL Picnic Fathers Day Fly in Blackfoot</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The first flight for our IKF 2008 kite train:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>30-some kites flew easily over Veterans Park</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Auntie Ruth’s Birthday Party in Ontario OR</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Second flight for kite train:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>55 kites were prepared to fly, but the wind was so strong we brought the train down after putting 40-some up!</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">AARP Summer Picnic in Pocatello</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Winds were a faint breeze but we managed to fly kites specially decorated for AARP!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The train was grounded that day.</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Nisei Club Picnic in Twin Falls</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The breeze barely lifted a single kite, so though 80-some kites made up the train in progress, none were flown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Nisei Club kites flew briefly!</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong>The complete 100+ kite train will be flown at IKF 2008 every opportunity the wind gives us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Come out and see the amazing sight of this many kites flying on one line!</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Dean Turnblom of Sunrise Kites in Idaho Falls and I have assembled this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>You can help make the 2009 kite train – just let us know you are willing and we’ll show you how!</font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">STILL TO COME</span></strong><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Yet to be scheduled are kitemaking workshops in the Boise and Ontario area, so stay tuned for these!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>If you’d like to suggest a public workshop in your area, feel free to contact The Sky’s The Limit! community volunteers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We work on the Festival all year long by holding kitemaking workshops around Idaho!</span> new website coming: www.IdahoKiteFestival.com http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/591 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/591 <p>Coming soon the Idaho Kite Festival information can be found at <a href="http://www.idahokitefestival.com">www.idahokitefestival.com</a>.  We're excited about this move and hope you'll check us out.  I understand parents' concerns of our website on MySpace.  This new site should be better on many levels!</p> <p>Happy Independence Day!  </p> <p>NEWS FLASH:  We're starting SKY - Sunday afternoon, Kites, and You - every breezy Sunday in a park near you!  Bring your kites and fly with us!</p> FOLLOW THAT (KITE) TRAIN! http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/581 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/581 <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">I learned how to build a kite train at the last WA State International Kite Festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The train consists of small Malay kites hooked together to trail across the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Once you get a good number (100 is my goal) you can also make a kite arch, tacking down both ends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It’s breathtaking to see the arches on the beach, and I want Idahoans to see that sight in Pocatello this fall.</span></p> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">My train was up to 40 kites, so last Sunday we flew it at a Fathers Day picnic in Blackfoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It went up easily, and excited and amazed everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Just seeing all those kites dancing and soaring lifted spirits and brought smiles to our faces.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">So my plan is to keep adding to the train with the help of fellow kiters and The Sky's The Limit volunteers till I reach 100 kites by October 2, when the second annual Idaho Kite Festival begins – and to fly however many I have every chance I get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I’ll be in Ontario and Nampa this weekend for family and friends, and you might see the train over our gatherings! </span></p> </span>

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library kites 011.jpg Kiter Kiter goes postal http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/562 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/562 <p>Okay, not really.  More like postal employee bitten by kiting bug.  But I thought I'd chat about interesting Post Office stuff, since in real life I'm a city carrier at USPS.</p> <p>First, do you know you need never pay more than current rates for your letters?  Since the Forever (liberty bell) stamp was issued when rates were 41 cents, stocking up on them has been one of the best bargains at the post office.  They will be good FOREVER as a first-class stamp for a one-ounce letter (approx 4 pages).</p> <p>And did you know that semi-postal stamps such as the Breast Cancer Research stamp are also good for current rates even if purchased prior, and need no additional postage to use?  LOVE that - I'm not only making a donation to breast cancer research but won't need to add a cent to use them.</p> <p>Now, as a carrier I can offer some self-serving tips to make both our lives easier:</p> <p>- Check your mailbox with clean hands.  When food gets on your mailbox, birds, spiders and wasps are not far behind.  True fact.  If you wonder why your mailbox has these pests and your neighbors don't - hel-lo.</p> <p>- Pick up your mail regularly or put it on hold.  It concerns us carriers to see mail in the boxes day after day...week after week (really).  We wonder if you are okay, or have moved.  And we have to clean out the box when it fills, hold it ten days and return it to sender.  Not good, if you are still there and want your mail eventually.</p> <p>- Give us easy access to your box.  This includes cars, garbage, dogs - the whole gamut of stuff that tells us you don't care if you get mail!</p> <p>- Thank you for all your kindnesses, compliments, patience, and friendships.  I love my job and it's all because of you, the public.</p> <p>Micki Mommy Mailcarrier </p> Kitemaking in Pocatello - CEF fair and upcoming Portneuf Library workshop http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/558 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/558 <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">For the annual Community Environmental Fair (CEF) on April 26, the challenge for The Sky’s The Limit! volunteers was to create kites from recycled and reusable materials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Of necessity and curiosity, since I started making kites 4 years ago I’ve grabbed any plastic or paper around the house to fashion a kite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>So the practice isn’t foreign to me, but refining it has been more a trip than a journey!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Fair and kitebuilding lasted more than 4 hours and the kites were flown in a park surrounded by large buildings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This calls for simply constructed, easily flown, lightweight kites, so I adapted some of my favorite newspaper and shopping bag kites to lighten them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>We made nearly 200 – Old News(papers) – New Kites, Go Green with the Red White and Blue (former tablecloths) for the VFW, and My Kite’s My (shopping) Bag were this year’s choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Please come again next year for more ingenious kites!</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The City of Pocatello is the main CEF sponsor, and local businesses, offices, and organizations such as the Greenway, recycling centers, and kids’ crafters all volunteer to help put on the Fair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>This year’s theme, GO GREEN, emphasized hands-on demonstrations, green exhibitors, live music, free green activities for kids, and entertainment throughout the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The rest of the participants hope for a sunny, calm day – I hoped for and got a light breeze to fly the kites!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>And we all hope for lots and lots of folks to attend every year, learn how to implement green practices into your everyday life, and have fun!</font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">A big thanks to our volunteers Joan, Chelsea, Marie in Pocatello; JoEtta from Paul; and RJ from Boise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Your tireless kitemaking with The Sky’s The Limit! was impressive and over the top!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Thanks also to the VFW for partnering with us again – see you in the fall at the Memorial Building for another workshop, Come Fly a Kite With a Veteran.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Registration is now being taken at the Portneuf Library for our next workshop June 5!</span></p> <p><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" stroked="f" filled="f" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f"></v:path><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:shapetype><v:shape id="_x0000_i1025" style="WIDTH: 204pt; HEIGHT: 153pt" type="#_x0000_t75"><v:imagedata o:title="IMG_0215" src="file:///C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/msoclip1/03/clip_image001.jpg"></v:imagedata></v:shape><span style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" stroked="f" filled="f" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" coordsize="21600,21600"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f"></v:path><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:shapetype><v:shape id="slideshowPicture" style="WIDTH: 201.75pt; HEIGHT: 151.5pt" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="" o:spid="_x0000_i1025"><v:imagedata src="file:///C:/WINDOWS/TEMP/msoclip1/04/clip_image001.jpg" o:href="http://render1.snapfish.com/render2/is=Yup6aQQ%7C%3Dup6RKKt%3Axxr%3D0-qpDofRt7Pf7mrPfrj7t%3DzrRfDUX%3AeQaQxg%3Dr%3F87KR6xqpxQQnaxaQnxnJoxv8uOc5xQQQGaa0n0PJ0nqpfVtB%3F*KUp7BHSHqqy7XH6gX0QPnJ%7CRup6lQQ%7C/of=50,590,442"></v:imagedata></v:shape></span></span></span></p> Kudos to all the volunteers at the Community Environmental Fair http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/536 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/536 <div>From the standpoint of my The Sky's The Limit! volunteers, who made kites for more than 4 hours, we think the Community Environmental Fair organizers and volunteers should receive Journal Roses for providing this enlightening, fun, and practical event to educate and ease the public into earth-friendly living.</div> <div></div> <div>The Fair went great!  The volunteer cooks intended to cook and give away 400 burgers and 300 hotdogs...and ran out way early and doubled that number before the Fair ended.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>The weather was outrageously gorgeous.  Even the kites had a breeze to fly most of the afternoon.  I'd prepped about 180 kite kits from newspaper, shopping bags, stuff like that - recycling, you know.  We ran out and were making kites from scratch nearly an hour after the official end of the Fair at 3:00!  So we came close to 200, if not over.  We were so busy (special thanks to Chelsea, Joan, Marie and JoEtta) we didn't have a chance to check out the Fair, get all the freebies, eat - but it was great fun!  Chelsea took several photos and they are all of us with our heads down, bent over tables and working our buns off!</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>If we ran out of kites before you got to our tables, please come to a workshop on the JHub calendar and make one.  We want everyone to have a kite to fly at the Idaho Kite Festival Oct 2-5 this fall, and will be holding workshops all year long!</div> Bonsai Buddies http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/498 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/498 <p>In these simple workshops we use a geranium to practice bonsai techniques since geraniums are more forgiving and less expensive!  You will learn tips on care and feeding, how to shape it to appear more exotic, how a plant reacts when potted in a tiny bonsai pot.  </p> <p>In the spring workshops, your plant can become a deck display.  </p> <p>In the fall, you will rescue geraniums in your yard or in your hanging pots.  Instead of letting them frost and die, we repot them for elegant indoor winter flowering plants.  Then in the spring, you can take cuttings to make your own outdoor plants!</p> <p>A spring class is scheduled at Portneuf District Library May 28.  Register there, and bring 3 stones the size of a man's thumb.</p> <p>A fall class will be held at Pocatello Coop, TBA.</p>

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Img_0027.jpg Kiter More Kitemaking in Pocatello-Chubbuck http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/497 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/497 <p>Our schedule for workshops leading up to the Idaho Kite Festival Oct 2-5 2008 is growing fast.  See below for free kite workshops.   I',m hoping to hear from libraries throughout Idaho, and will try to fit in a workshop for you on my day off (in real life I'm a city mail carrier).  Our goal at The Sky's The Limit! is that everyone has a kite to fly at the annual IKF!</p> <p>The focus of many of these workshops is making kites from recycled, reusable and household materials, celebrating Earth Day Every Day.</p> <h1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Idaho Kite Festival 2008</font></h1> <h1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Calendar of Workshops and Events</font></h1> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">April 15:<span>  </span><span>         </span>Marshall Library, 3:30 pm</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>            </span><span>            </span>Mini Kimono workshop</font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">April 26: <span>          </span>Community Environmental Fair, 11:00-3:00</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>            </span><span> </span><span>            </span>Kitemaking every half hour; kite flies all day</font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">May 28: <span>          </span><span> </span>Portneuf District Library, 5 pm</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>            </span><span>            </span>Geranium bonsai buddies</font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">June 5:<span>  </span><span>            </span>Portneuf Library, 2 pm</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>            </span><span>            </span>Kitemaking</font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">September:<span>  </span><span>     </span>Pocatello Coop geranium bonsai</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Oct 2:<span>  </span><span></span><span>            </span>Portneuf Library, 2 pm</font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>            </span><span>            </span>Kitemaking</font></font></div> <h2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Oct 2-5: <span>          </span>Idaho Kite Festival 2008 </font></h2> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>            </span><span>            </span>Workshops and kite flies daily</font></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Please call the libraries to register for their workshops</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">NOTE:  explanation for geranium bonsai buddies workshop in next blog</span></div> Kitemaking at the Community Environmental Fair in Pocatello April 26 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/490 http://www.thejhub.com/home/Blog/Kiter/490 <p>This Fair sounds fun and this is the first time I've had the day off work to participate.  My community volunteers, called The Sky's The Limit!, will be in the activity tent.  Look for Maxine with her facepainting table, posters for our Portneuf District Library partner, flags from another partner VFW - we'll be around!  </p> <p>If all goes as planned, we'll have several different kites, so come at the half-hour and join in.  Kites include:</p> <p>Old News - New Kite (a newspaper kite)</p> <p>Our VFW spring workshop:  Go Green with the Red White and Blue - a kite from recycled tablecloths from a cancer survivor event</p> <p>My Kite's My Bag (kite from recycled shopping bags and other reusable plastic- bring your department store bags and we'll make kites of them at future workshops - anything but grocery bags)</p> <p>Come Fly a Fish - more shopping bags, with fins and fused tails</p> <p>We'll make kites till we run out, and fly them if there is a breeze!  </p> <p>ALSO - watch EVENTS postings on TheJHub.com and check <a href="http://www.myspace.com/iskf">www.myspace.com/iskf</a> to stay up to date about kites!</p>