Just go see it.  over two hours of excellent entertainment.  Love the visuals, love the pace of the action, love the music, Goldblum is marvelous – just go.

Obviously, I have had a terrific time because my finger tips are numb, my bottom is rosy and warm and my mind is rather la-la-la-la-la.  I have one more appointment.  I shall muster myself up and be mindful.

Thank you for all the opportunities.  I took a chance coming here and it paid off.  Thank you to the tipper, you made a great difference.  

Thank you ALL, the pleasure as been all mine.

I stayed at the America’s Best Value Inn on Hallum and Folsom.  Mornings, you will find me at Rocco’s around the corner.  I ate at different places for lunch and dinner.

Saturday I picked up my brother, Mark, and we went to the Northern California Renaissance Faire.  This is always a good time.  I get my hair braided by Brenda the Braider.  (About $60)

Sunday is Folsom Fair and this year Madoc Pope took my reins.

Photo by Jon Bauer, my Pony Speckles

Animal Cavalcade 2017

Photos by Handyman 2017

Photo by Prettyballs

Photo by Tom Hilton

Photography by Trainer Pollux

I was at Folsom Fair with two of my best friends, Tony Bark and Trainer Pollux.  Tony Bark is a new Leather titleholder, Inland Empire Ambassador, so he was up on the Main stage being presented!

Afterwards, Speckles and I gave Tony and Trainer Pollux a cart ride back to the hotel.  We took apart the carts, had a snack and headed back to the maddening crowd.

Ingredients:

• 1 (1 1/2 pound) beef tri tip roast, trimmed
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 teaspoon dried basil
• 1 teaspoon dried marjoram

• 1 teaspoon dry mustard
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1/3 cup red wine or a tad more as needed, and you need to pour yourself a glass of course.
• 1 tablespoon olive oil, or as needed

Add all dry ingredients on the list to a bowl and mix them

• Prep

  10 m

• Cook

  35 m

• Ready In

  8 h 50 minutes or more if you marinate overnight

1. Rub roast all over with thyme, basil, marjoram, mustard, salt, and black pepper. Place meat in a glass baking dish, seal the dish securely with saran wrap, and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight. uncover the dish, carefully drizzle the red wine into the herbs covering all the meat, turn it over and repeat so that the meat is fully covered 4 hours before cooking.  Reseal the dish securely with saran wrap and place back into the refrigerator.
2. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). 
3. Take the meat out of the refrigerator, uncover, drizzle both sides with olive oil sparsely. Place meat in the oven.
4. Roast in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and continue roasting meat until hot and slightly pink in the center, 20 to 25 minutes more. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read 140 degrees F (60 degrees C). Let rest for 5 to 10 minutes before thinly slicing against the grain.

BAM!

Sometimes I get stuck in the mundane and schedule of daily life.  I notice I feel dull, opressed by an unknown thing, and I am constantly thinking about bills.

This is not my life.

So, I grab one of my favorite stories on vcr or dvd and start playing it or I grab a favorite book.  I revisit my friends in their story.  I remember back to how I used to watch tv as a child.  

Somehow when I was a child even if I had been read a story 100 times, when it was read to me, it was interesting, I wanted to know how my friends were, how their story went and how it turned out.  I was attentive, listening, focused.  It was as if the story might change if I didn’t visit them regularly.  Their story might go stepping off in another direction.  I had to make sure.  It was the same for my favorite tv shows.  It never mattered if it was a rerun. (We didn’t have pre-recorded things to play on demand.)

At that time I was excited to wake up, greet the day, experience my new adventure.   A new day was never boring or something I found mundane.

That is my life.  Excited.  Life is a wonder.  You never know what will happen next.  

You play hard.  I play hard. I engage in everything I do with passion.  I’m fully in.  Creating a make-believe in this state is totally real at the time.  I was really looking for the Indians (cowboys) or the Navy (pirates), they were truly coming to get me and I had to escape, survive, catch them, out fox them, etc.

Creating my real life isn’t any different, not when I am engaged, not when I am in this moment with the universe.

I feel light, happy in this state.

That is amusing because Peter and Tink always tell you, you need a happy thought to fly.

Way back May 1st, which was rather late to make a reservation and I was lucky,  I found:

2017 Eclipse RV Camping August 19th-22st

To experience this once in a lifetime event make plans to stay at Butterfly Falls. A dry RV/tent campsite located in the open hay field on the farm. The field is bordered by the beautiful year-a-round Rickreall creek. Check out Monday after viewing the eclipse or stay an extra night at no additional cost and avoid the traffic.

Amenities:
Pond Fishing (bring your own gear)
Creek for wading and rock skipping
Miles of walking trails
Excellent eclipse viewing site
Easy RV access
Generous campsite sizes (25×50)
Pets on leash only
No open flames
3.5 miles outside of Dallas, Oregon
Group Discounts
4 days/3 nights
Friendly camp hosts

which I hopped on immediately and became the 107th person to make a reservation.  There were 350 of us in this huge meadow August 20th.

a journey is more than a destination though.

I rented a standard suv, unlimited miles which I picked up the morning of Friday, August 18th.  I packed my tent, blow-up mattress, bedding, bed roll, propane stove and firepit, camping seat, camping table, canopy with bug net, Cooler with food, Emergency go-bag, Kelly’s stuff, Kelly, Dr. Forbin’ stuff (a friend and fellow member of LAPACC) and Dr. Forbin in my boat with wheels and off we went to take the back roads of the 395 up the eastern California Sierra’s.

First stop, I shared the ice cream/coffee shop in Lone Pine Bistro on Main Street.  It was hot, so i had a frappe.  They are delicious.

Sourdough bread at Schat’s Bakery in Bishop is perfect to wrap around those meat patties I made for travel food.

First night, we stayed at the Andruss Motel in Coleville.  They remembered me from from when i stayed her when visiting my daughter and son-in-law.  Kelly ran around, she really loved it.  This is a great motel stop or stay for a fishing vacation.  Room has a kitchen and all the stuff you would need.

work in progress, I’ll be back….

So much work to produce an event.  Finding the perfect staff, writing for Sponsors, communicating with participants so they have an excellent experience.  I am immensely proud of Equus International Pony Play Event.  The videos will be posted first on the you tube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC9KDBkq024fqLy4x7arvHQ

And then on the Equus IPPE web site:  http://www.equusippe.com/

There was a herd of people that support me in this endeavor.  Thank you all.

Mostly, I am overjoyed that the event feels like coming home to a chosen family.  We are seen and known by one another.  There is love abounding.  The games are fun.  It is up to the participants to raise the bar for themselves, to do their personel best.  My Pony and I definately stretch each other during the event.

The highlight for me was the 15 minute presentations by people whom we have never heard give a class.  They were fascinating, we got who these people were, it was superb.

And we do it again next year, August 10 – 13, 2018.

New videos are up for you to enjoy.  You purchase them through Clips4sale.

I have 3 original videos loaded in the members video gallery along with Part 1 and 2 of Sir Nik and subMissAnn shot by Ken Marcus.

If you want access to these, simply use the Contact Me form and send an Amazon Gift Card code with the value of $25.00 for 24 hour access.

subMissAnn is stripped out of your tight dress and then forced to get down onto your hands and knees and made to wear a dog collar.  Goddess Selina Minx then ball gags subMissAnn, ties her ankles to her thighs, arms folded and bound before being made to crawl around the room like an dog being taken for a walk.

subMissAnn is stripped out of your tight dress and then forced to get down onto your hands and knees and made to wear a dog collar. Goddess Selina Minx then ball gags subMissAnn, ties her ankles to her thighs, arms folded and bound before being made to crawl around the room like an dog being taken for a walk.