Goodness I love spring! The snow and ice finally melts and the sun starts shining again to a degree that you don’t mind actually being outdoors. I admit that I do have a really hard time waiting for the bees and pollinators to “wake up” before raking and cleaning my gardens though. I get too excited, and I know that if I wait much longer all my fresh crocuses, daffys and tulips sprouts will get destroyed when I clean the garden beds. And I can definitely go a bit overboard when I decide it’s THAT time. I spent 6 hours yesterday raking & thatching the grass, then raking and blowing the leaves out of most of the back yard gardens and at a bit more than half the front yard ones. I filled 10 bags of leaves and today, if I am honest. I feel a little bit like I’ve been hit by a truck today. My back is sore and my hamstrings are singing to me but I have a great sense of satisfaction looking out there in anticipation. Of course, I now need to go buy about 25 or 30 bags of mulch. That can wait until the weekend though when I have recovered a bit. <wink>

In the meantime, our dungeon cat Miss Torie was granted at will in-out access and SHE is also feeling a bit of spring fever! My apologies to anyone that isn’t fond of cats, but she is definitely a kindred spirit and have no doubt that if she were human, she would be a dominant. Although, I think that may be true of cats in general, which may be why I love them so much.

In REALLY HAPPY NEWS – a lot of you were aware that I have been dealing with a year long ordeal of personal drama that involved my ex husband (who is really more like my annoying but much loved kid brother) and the Department of Homeland Security / Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I am delighted and ridiculously relieved to say he is back home as of last week and I cannot begin to tell you what a freaking relief it was to see him walk out of that gate! And although there is still an appeal on the books I am fairly confident that this particular issue is over. So – HOO FUCKING RAY! Huge Smileys!!

Hmm what else, oh yeah so the breath coaching course and upcoming Tantra course have me inspired in new directions so I am also in the progress of building and launching a new website that is geared towards people that may be curious about BDSM but a bit apprehensive, as well as folks that may be more interested in the Tantra, energy and breathwork side of things than some of the deeper more advanced BDSM techniques. It is mostly built but I am still tweaking a bit here and there and am considering this a “soft opening”. I would welcome feedback from folks as to what would make it more appealing, interesting, sexy etc. Check it out – TheKinkSalon

And finally I just had a REALLY greatly therapeutic session for me and my victim errr client that involved some intense paddling caning and other impact play. I do not see him often but dang this boy can take a licking and keep on ticking. He told me that he once told a Domina that she was not paddling him as hard as he can paddle himself and I am delighted to say that he told me that that comment does NOT apply to me. I would be severely disappointed in myself if that were the case. I made sure he went home with some souvenirs but is amazes me how badly my phone does not capture the true essence of the colors that I was seeing. Like seriously, he was soooo colorful – like an artists palette! Thank you Ed – I REALLY NEEDED that!