Help requested

On Sunday afternoon Sir and i went for a walk with some friends. Along the way we passed by a woman doing some yard work.. and wouldn't you know it she had trimmed her willow tree and had put some branches out for the garbage. Truthfully i haven't a clue what got into me...... honest i don't !!! But i stopped and picked up a handful of branches and brought them home.

Now i have these branches sitting in my secret garden........ every time i go outside to work in the gardens i see them. i swear they are calling to me!!! whispering to me!!! Last evening i picked them up and ran my hands down them.. rubbing all the dead leaves off. i played with them .. waving them around - more like a fairy wand rather than a switch. i kept wondering what one needed to do to make them into willow switches... or are they already willow switches - by virtue of the fact they are cut and willow branches??

i am probably gonna hate myself for asking this......... BUT ....... has anyone ever used a switch?? had a switch used on them??? Can you just use them cut straight from the tree like the ones i have??? or do i need to do something to them to make them switches???

i even googled "willow switches" and got everything BUT what i was looking for......... Sir bought a book entitled The Better Built Bondage Book- a great resource for building your own toys and equipment....... so i went and pulled it out hoping that there would be instructions in it for willow switches....... BUT...... nothing!

i thought maybe i could just tape the bottom bits together and make a handle of sorts for Sir.... i thought maybe i should just toss them out in the garbage (tomorrow is garbage day) and maybe my ass would thank me ......... but somehow or other i didn't...... like i said above...... they keep whispering my name.............

So folks .........anyone got any suggestions what i do now?? (besides throw them out quick before Sir arrives)

Inquiring Minds

i received a comment on this weekend's blog......... and i don't know why but i really thought it deserved an answer here in the public eye..
BloodyCorpse said...
Don't you think that using "Who links to me?" is a bit of an invasion of privacy? I mean if I were to link to someone I don't know if I'd really want it advertised to everyone right at that very second.

i discovered quite by accident one day that someone had put a link on their blog to The Journey. At first i was startled...... then i was pleased.. then i was curious. i couldn't understand why someone would put up a link without a "by your leave". It seemed to me a little bit of an invasion of MY privacy.

Then i discovered the "who links to me" link... and put it up on my blog. This link allows me to see who else has linked to The Journey. Is that an invasion of their privacy??? Maybe....... truthfully i hadn't thought about that. BUT then if they were concerned about their privacy they wouldn't have linked to my blog would they have?? At least not without asking me first.

Now please!! if you have linked to my blog and haven't asked me if you could...... don't fuss and bother about it.... i have long since forgotten about my initial shock at finding myself linked on various blogs. (actually i now find it quite an ego booster)......... This blog post is just to answer Bloodycorpse's comment about invasion of privacy.

Seems to me turn about is fair play.

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on a happier note........ i have been working out in my gardens.. digging them .. fertilizing them and totally enjoying the feel of the earth under my feet. (ughhhhhh has anyone else noticed the size of the juicy worms this spring??!!!)
And with my thoughts turning to all things spring and flowers.. i decided to post some pictures on my photojournal......... enjoy!!!

Rambling Road

On April 28th 2005 i started this journal........ i had no idea where it would go.... or if - like so many others - i would take it down by the first anniversary.......... Last weekend the journey got a little bumpy.. a little rough.. and i needed to take some time to back away from both the public and private sides of my life .. to take a deep long look at who i was.. where i was going and the biggest question .. WHY.

i was intensely sad last weekend and part of this week - not depressed! - but sad.......life does not always give us what we want........ and strange as this may sound coming from someone who is posting about their life .. i am an intensely private person... what i share here in The Journey .. is a portion of a portion of my life. So i guess at times when one tries to view my life .. it is a bit like looking a jigsaw puzzle with patches missing.......

i believe Sir and i have found O/our way back to journey we set out on together nearly 5 years ago. It was just a speed bump in the road of life... ok i'll admit.. it was a little bigger speed bump than most.. but nevertheless still just a speed bump.

And now i am ready to start blogging for the second year....... i only ask that you - dear readers - keep in mind this is my "public journey" (as i said in the first blog of The Journey) ... small peeks into the private life of a collared submissive.

(just for fun .. i have posted some pics to my photojournal)

thank you

i just wanted to thank everyone for your thoughts and kind words of encouragement.........

i haven't been reading the blogs.. or answering the comments here on my own blog and i apologise........ but i really do need time to find the woman i was and lost.......... an email i received pointed out my better traits.. traits i think i had lost for a brief time..... i will be that woman again........ i will !

Mea Culpa

For now i am trying to find my center... my focus..

If you are interested in more details please read Sir’s Place