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| January - Picture Day 2016 - This one was taken in Savanna, IL |
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| January - Picture Day 2016 - This one was taken in Savanna, IL |
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| January - Mt Carroll to get this piece, lots of work ahead but it's going to make a great piece for the craft room |
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January - Happy Birthday to me from Punkin' (with a little help from a friend)
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| January - Christmas/Birthday Gifts |
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| February - Female Cardinal, finding a snack underneath the snow, the pair never eats at the same time, one is always on the lookout in the nearby bush. |
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| February - Male Cardinal, watching over his Mrs. Cardinal, the pair never eats at the same time, one is always on the lookout in the nearby bush. |
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| February - Mr. Stubby in the feeding station |
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| March - Happy Easter from two spoiled Kitties! |
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| March - So spoiled that they have 5 kitty beds to choose from and they both sleep together in the smallest one |
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| April - Visit to see Mom and Dad, took a little detour and stopped to visit the covered bridge...what a beautiful spring day! |
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| April - Visit to see Mom and Dad, took a little detour and stopped to visit the covered bridge...what a beautiful spring day! |
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| April - Visit to see Mom and Dad, Dads hands, always wearing his wedding ring and the gold watch he got when he retired. He turned 92 years old in 2016. Still drives, still joins in conversations, still loves his family! |
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| April - a visit to see J, big project day adding mulch to all the flower beds, transplanting but also having some fun with this handsome guy. |
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| April - A birthday wish to a friend! |
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| May- Gotta love having a truck. This years annuals all ready to pretty up the yard! |
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| May - The bush is full of blossoms this year! |
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| May - Met this guy randomly roaming the neighborhood. |
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| May - Relaxing after a day of yardwork! |
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| May - Project Day side activity! Public range in IA |
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| May - Project Day, MULCH! |
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| May - Quick stop to grab this photo for "Illinois Backroads" |
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| May - Love me a daisy! |
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| May - Started this project sometime in 2015 but finally got it painted and on the wall. |
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May - Clouds so swift
Rain won't lift
Gate won't close
Railings froze
Get your mind of wintertime
You ain't goin' nowhere |
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May - Clouds so swift
Rain won't lift
Gate won't close
Railings froze
Get your mind of wintertime
You ain't goin' nowhere |
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| May - Visit to Mom and Dad's, talking a little drive and exploring "Illinois Backroads" |
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| May - Visit to Mom and Dad's, talking a little drive and exploring "Illinois Backroads" |
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| June - Peanut needed a quick trip to the vet. Nothing major. |
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| June - Getting ready to celebrate Independence Day! |
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| June - Lillies in bloom |
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| June - Project for nephew's wedding! |
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| June - Punkin' enjoying the warm sidewalk! |
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| June - "Illinois Backroads" |
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| June - Love this snuggle cat, though she thinks every blanket I own is hers... |
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| June - Project for the shop! |
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| June - J hung my tire planter! |
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| July - J's Cukes and Melons |
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| July - Peanut really hates having her face cleaned, I wonder if that's why she has her tongue out? |
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| July - Just a great cloud day "Illinois Backroads" |
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| July - I drove all over like a maniac trying to get this shot without a bunch of electric poles and lines in the picture...not so successful but the clouds were amazing! |
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| July - I drove all over like a maniac trying to get this shot without a bunch of electric poles and lines in the picture...not so successful but the clouds were amazing! |
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| July - Planters are doing well, it was a rainy summer! |
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| July - Planters are doing well, it was a rainy summer! |
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| July - Another summer project, new potting table connected to the potting shed |
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| July - Peanut still confiscating my blankets! |
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| July - Did a little cleaning in the woodworking garage...the old saw is still running like a charm, I'm the 4th owner and when I think of the hands that have created with it, my heart is full and I enjoy using it all the more. |
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| July - "Illinois Backroads" |
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| July - "Illinois Backroads" |
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| July - "Illinois Backroads" |
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| August - I have a sign that says this same thing that hangs in my bathroom. I make sure I adjust my head each day before I leave the house. |
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| August - This one is actually Punkin' though it kind of looks like Peanut...and Peanut is always in the baskets...wonder how Punkin' snuck I a little basket time for herself? |
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| August - Panoramic picture, I was thinking about how one day cornfields will not be my every day anymore... |
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| August - Shop display, the grungy candles were another project. |
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| August - Road Trip on the horizon, looking forward to time in the mountains! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Small highway perfect for the Harley |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Little privately owned bike shop. The owner was so friendly and his collection made my mouth water. He is a BMW lover also! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Little privately owned bike shop. The owner was so friendly and his collection made my mouth water. He is a BMW lover also! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Working on the property was hot and exhausting work. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. One of my favorite days was spent exploring the Parkway. This was a little waterfall on the way to the Parkway...which was special cause the guests actually sat this one out...it was quiet and no pressure to entertain. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. There is beauty everywhere you look there! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. On the Parkway, there is beauty everywhere you look! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. On the Parkway, there is beauty everywhere you look! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. On the Parkway, there is beauty everywhere you look! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Lunch time along this small river. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Flowers along the road above the property. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Franklin the cabin cat. Lots of stories about this guy... |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. View from J's property |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Mica from the mine that exploded higher up the mountain. Rocks like this are all over J's property |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Another fun day exploring the area and local waterfalls. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Another fun day exploring the area and local waterfalls. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Another fun day exploring the area and local waterfalls. Our purchase of the day, Ole Smokey Moonshine! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Another fun day exploring the area and local waterfalls. So proud of myself on this hike, I made it to the bottom and back up despite the warnings of how rough a hike it was. Kept up with and even spent some quality time with M. On the way back up I took a little side stop on the way back up by myself and found this awesome view! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Another fun day exploring the area and local waterfalls. So proud of myself on this hike, I made it to the bottom and back up despite the warnings of how rough a hike it was. Kept up with and even spent some quality time with M. On the way back up I took a little side stop on the way back up by myself and found this awesome view! |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. Road to the cabin we stayed at. We went down and brought guests back up if they didn't have a truck. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. One day was spent going to a gun show and then meeting up with an old school friend of J's Dad - D. He took us to his house where there were some great views. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. First stop M and B's house in Georgia. B was not there but M had only the best for his guests. Great place to spend time relaxing. |
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| September - 19 days of vacation, heading for Georgia and North Carolina, meeting up with family and friends. First stop M and B's house in Georgia. B was not there but M had only the best for his guests. Great place to spend time relaxing. One thing you can count on with this group is some quality camera equipment and quality firearms. |
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| September - Home again and attentions are turned to other things. |
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| September - Creating new friendships |
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| October - Leaves and Tire Swing |
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| October - The geranium is a monster this year! |
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| October - New beds for the girls! |
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| November - Leaves are bad, but pine-needles...sheesh |
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| November - Leaves are bad, but pine-needles...sheesh |
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| November - Leaves are bad, but pine-needles...sheesh |
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| November - I wanted to paint my fence all summer but it was so rainy. I did get a section done in November before it got too cold but still more to do. |
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| November - Just love them! |
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| November - Just love them! |
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| November - no words... |
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| December - No reason...just they are pink! |
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| December - Cat sitting Skooter! |
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| December - Christmas gift from my second Mom! |
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| December - Winter Project |
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| December - Cozy Cat |
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| December - Another Cozy Cat |
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| December - Christmas! |
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| December - Snuggle Time! |
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| December - SNOW! |
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| December - Winter Project |
Daddy Doms by kendra
It had been a while since i'd last read the following article. Many people ask me about bdsm and why i enjoy it...not understanding my desire to be with a Dominant. It is hard to put into words exactly what it's about ... but this article does a wonderful job of explaining it.Daddy/little girl does not refer to the ages, real or pretend, of the participants. Nor does it imply closet desires. In my relationship my Dom is not my father, he is nothing like my father, and I have no need for him to replace my father. He is however my Daddy. We do not engage in age play specifically ( beyond the occasional school girl fantasy *s*) and our relationship is not based on any need to have sex with children. I am always all woman, and always a very independent woman.He does have the ability to make me feel like a little girl, however, a very cherished and sometimes needy little girl. It is a feeling that I revel in, it is the safest place I have ever been, and it allows me the freedom to be all that I am without fear of reprisals. Daddy Dom is a feeling, an environment that two people have created. A Daddy Dom is so named because of the qualities he possesses and the service he provides.So, what are these qualities? What is a Daddy Dom?A Daddy Dom wants to be the center of your universe. He wants to be able to provide for your every need and care. But more than that he wants to be able to shape and mold you to the image he thinks you should become. He sees in you someone who can achieve a much higher, much greater status. He believes more in you than you believe in yourself. What he wants in return is to be able to bask in his image of you, the image he has created. To achieve these goals he relies on a combination of love, respect, and discipline.His love for his little girl goes without saying. He loves her as much for who she is as for who she will become with his guidance. She is his prized possession. His eyes light up when she walks into the room and he takes great pride in her successes. After all, he helped to create her. She holds the most tender part of his heart and has the greatest power to hurt him.This love would not be possible without respect. A Daddy Dom needs to feel pride in his little girl. He needs to know she can hold her own in the outside world and still submit to him. He holds the greatest respect for the gift she has given him and takes great pains to increase it’s value. It is extremely important to him to know she can be with any man and she chooses to be with him.He knows that this makes discipline a priority in their lives, more important than in some other D/s relationships. In order for the little girl to really trust, she must know he means what he says. If his little girl is going to be the best she can possibly be he must stand firm. He uses his experience in life and his knowledge of her to provide proper direction and punishment when the need arises.If he does not enforce discipline, this respect becomes a tenuous thing. If his submissive finds that she can manipulate him out of punishing her, she begins to lose respect and the ability to empower becomes impeded. He understands that it becomes increasingly difficult to be possessed by someone you do not respect.This takes great strength on his part. It takes strength to control her, and to shape her to his needs and desires. It takes strength to be her confidant, her shoulder, her anchor. It takes strength to let her out into the world when all he wants to do is hold her safe in his arms. And it takes strength todo what is necessary when she needs to be disciplined.A Daddy Dom provides something else that is very important to his submissive...acceptance. She is safe in his arms because he knows her, everything about her, and he still loves her. When she goes to him she knows that this man knows all of her dirty little secrets and it doesn’t matter. To him she is beautiful.Daddy Dom and sadistic Dom are by no means mutually exclusive. Many Daddy Doms embrace their sadism while understanding and feeding their submissive's masochism. This balance is necessary to many little girls because it allows all parts of her to be nourished, leading to an incredibly fulfilling relationship.I think most Dominants have a bit of the Daddy in them, taking on the role of male authority figure in the submissive’s life and using their power to enrich that life. Daddy/little girl verbalizes that feeling, and adds a dimension of warmth, caring, and ritual that it’s participants crave.There is something infinitely magical about a Daddy Dom. Perhaps it is something only a little girl can understand.This article may only be reprinted on private, no fee to access websites as long as this notice accompanies it and the following link is in place: http://www.subspace.cc/
