BACK IN THE SADDLE!

I'm thrilled to report that I'm typing this entry with two hands once again!  Finally, I can get my readers up to date on the first 8 months of this very strange year.  Medical issues have dominated for much of the 6 months, and the related miseries, both physical and mental, have taken their toll.  Both Karl and I had very nasty bouts of the flu, and my friend Pete in his assisted living home had it much worse with a bout of pneumonia that had me worried that he wouldn't recover.  He did, thankfully, and is his feisty old self once again.  I was sick much of the time that he was, and that limited my visits to see him, but we kept up each other's spirits via good old fashioned phone calls.


Then, of course, came my ill fated dip in the ocean, and I've already written about that.  I'm still feeling the effects in my shoulder and wrist, but to a much lesser extent, and I'm ready for a comeback in the last quarter of this year.  I can type again, and I can drive again, Karl is healthy as well, and life can hopefully get back to normal.  At least as "normal" as a FLM, D/s, and s/M relationship can be said to be:)


Speaking of that lovely relationship, I do have a few updates on matters of the proverbial "kink" to report.  First, I must mention Vanessa and David.  After David's ordeal by fire at the hands of Vanessa earlier this year, he's settled in as a strong contender for Vanessa's affections.  Of course, Vanessa's affections include a heavy dose of slave driving and hard core dominance, but David seems to have thrived under her "tutelage" and the two of them are getting along famously.  Vanessa orders, David obeys.  Sounds like some other couple, hmm?


Actually, I did get a bit of time with David on my own.  While Karl was over in England for 10 days, and I was still sick with the flu, Vanessa got tired of hearing my complaints about the unkempt condition of my house without Karl around to do his usual cleaning chores, feeding chores, etc., etc., and "volunteered" David to spend as long as necessary to help me out.  She dropped him off early one morning with instructions to follow my orders and work at whatever I told him to work at, for as long as it took, even if it took days.


How strange it felt to be dominating someone else's submissive!   Well, it didn't take me long to get into the swing of things, as the saying goes, and I had a lovely time ordering a totally compliant David around all day and half the night.  Being the kind hearted person that I am, and realizing that his body was going to be sweating profusely before it was all over, I had him remove all of his clothes from the start.  So, naked but for his chastity device (evidently Vanessa didn't quite trust me completely), off he went on the first of many rounds of chores that I had planned for him. 


Oh yes, I must admit that I did place some heavy chains on him in the form of ankle and hand restraints that kept his feet about a foot apart and about half that for his hands  Just enough to make the day a bit more memorable for him and to allow me to enjoy the sounds that chains make when being dragged and banged against furniture and floors as he "hobbled" around the house.  After all, in all fairness that was a typical situation for Karl when he did his chores, so why should David have any less of a challenge?


David was very well trained.  He dutifully vacuumed, cleaned floors, dusted woodwork, scrubbed the bathrooms and more, and I rarely had to use my crop to move him along, though it was fun to see the expression on his face the few times that I did.  If I had felt better physically, I surely would have been a bit harsher, but I so appreciated his efforts that I was not my usual sadistic self.  At noontime, Vanessa arrived with cold cuts and sandwich fixings, and David prepared lunch for the two of us, serving it up on platters while we fed him from a dish on the floor.  I'm sure he was used to that, and he performed his waiter duties so flawlessly that we allowed him a bit of foot worship under the table as we ate.


After Vanessa departed, I had David doing a week's worth of washing, drying, ironing and putting clothes away.  I rarely spoke to him other than giving orders, but I was curious to hear his side of his relationship with Vanessa, so I quizzed him a bit in the late afternoon and found that he was absolutely dedicated to his new Mistress and her happiness.   His somewhat frail body belied his enthusiasm for doing her bidding, and his energy at the tasks I set for him showed that he was "doing it for his mistress" and wanted to please me as her representative on this day.  All in all, having him help me out was a pleasure, and I gave Vanessa (when out of David's earshot)  a glowing report of his time with me when she picked him up that evening.


Next, there is a matter to report on concerning Karl and his trip to England.  I'll save that for the next posting.