| I have no idea what this picture is, but it happens to look
exactly like sunrise to this owl ... lots of bright and glare.
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| Jeff seems pretty awake. Dawn is, of course, radiant.
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| Bill's as cheery as usual.
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| So we find a field upwind, unload the trailer and set up.
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| Check the burners.
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| Then wait until the first wave clears the field.
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| The first clue that the wind was coming up was that
the early-birds started tipping.
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| Pretty soon a lot of balloons were dragging.
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| Touch and go on launch.
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| Special shapes are specially hard to launch in wind.
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| Scorched a hole in the collar ...
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| ... but getting aloft after all.
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| Jeff's ready to fly ...
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| ... but having fun just being there.
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| Watching others scorch and drag, Bill calls off the launch.
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| We watch those who got aloft.
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| Natually the wind dies down after we've packed up.
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| Some big special shapes made it up, Yah-hoo!
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