Perhaps we scared Meredith off of her own blog by going too far off topic, which seemed to be gardens and outer space and so forth. Smokey and the Foomobile were too suddenly quotidian? Well, on the topic of gardens, I have gotten some work done out there this weekend, but never as much as I plan to do. Yesterday, instead of gardening, we went hiking near Orinda in a park I'd never been to. There, on an open hilltop, we flew kites. Two weekends in a row, now, this new hobby - stunt kite flying! it is very fun and more energetic than you might think... the kite comes down a lot (since we are beginners) and there is a lot of running to and fro to realign the double strings and launch it again.