Shed Building Plans

The other day we were told that Kevin had been behaving very bad towards another girl in school and even towards a teacher.  We were not happy and a long family meeting followed that night as we want to understand whats on Kevins mind as we dont recognize the side of him they explain when hes around home.  But he cant explain and claim he doesnt even remember.  Black out??
As same kind of incidents happened more than ones last year as well we were told there would be meetings about Kevin and an action plan. We welcomed this and was very eager to talk about it and make some common plans and actions together with his teachers. But we never heard of any meetings and when reminding them about it we got avoiding answers and nothing further happened. Easy to complain and tell the parents how much a student is a negative factor in the class but so very hard to do something about it.
Yesterday we booked a meeting with a mentor at his school with copy to the manager of the school saying we wont accept complain after complain about our son without anyone willing to act!!
And funny enough his teacher called last night saying she was worried about Kevin. GOOD!! FINALLY!! I think were getting somewhere..... fingers crossed that this will be the breakthrough for us and Kevin to get on top of his behavior in school.

Interacting with the natural world around me is something I have always been drawn to and found interesting and fun.  The past few years Ive had a blast creating electromagnetic waves with my ham radio equipment and sending them off skipping along the atmosphere and all around the Earth.  Another way Ive been harnessing the forces of nature for amusement has been kite flying.  

Some of my earliest memories are kite flying with my dad on a warm and breezy spring afternoons long ago.  Many of my kites were inexpensive tradition shaped versions and I even built my own as young boy using newspaper and a couple crossed sticks.  These paper kites flew great but never lasted long.  On very windy days my sister and I would attach empty bread bags to a spool of kite string and surprisingly if you could get it to fill with air the bag would fly as well as any kite.  Fascination with the sky and flight is just one of those cool things that are ingrained in us as humans.  I think the birds are pretty much responsible for that.  For ages man has stood grounded to Mother Earth and marveled at the sparrow who so easily takes flight or a group vultures lazily riding the air currents high above barely flapping their wings for minutes on end.  I know I have.

One day I was browsing around the hobby store and I noticed a rack of kites.  All my life Ive only flown simple single string kites.  With traditional kites the learning curve is pretty easy; hold it up, let it go and let out more string. Thats about it.  What caught my eye was this delta wing shaped kite known as a sport kite or stunt kite made by Premier Kites of Hyattsville, Maryland.  On trips to the ocean Ive seen these double string wonders in action above the beach were steady breezes are plentiful.  Having always wanted to try one out I bought that kite on the spot and waited for the windy days of spring to arrive. 

A few weeks ago that day finally came and after work I headed out to my favorite flying spot to give the new kite a try.  My first two attempts lasted about two seconds with the kite shooting up like a rocket then looping around violently and plummeting back to the ground.  The instructions state: "The most common problem a beginner has is over controlling their kite" And that is indeed the truth.  Just the slightest pull on one of the control lines will turn the kite and instantly send it into a dive.  In a fit of panic its very easy to jerk the other cord overcompensating and send the kite equally out of control in the other direction.