Another Snippet From A Book To Be Published Soon
Jul 18, 2012 by Devlin O' Neill
(Yes, the book is almost ready, at least for a final edit or three. I am undecided as to a title, which will be either Spank Her: One Top’s View of This Thing We Do, or The Elements of Spanking: Professor O’Neill Explains It All. Or some combination of the two. Comments and suggestions welcomed.)
So from my perspective and from my experience only I will tell you now about the women who do this thing we do, and how they feel about doing it. Obviously I have not met every woman who is into this, enjoys this, needs this, cannot survive without this, or merely is fanatically and obsessively curious about this thing we do, but I have met several of them, observed a goodly number of them, talked extensively with some of them, spanked a lot of them, and fallen in love with a few of them.
I have no statistical analysis, but I will say with confidence that roughly a hundred percent of heterosexual women in this world would not object too very much if the right man, in the right circumstance, and with the right motivation, gave every last one of them a good, hard slap on the bum, or perhaps several.
What I am saying is that women, gals, girls, need and want that kind of attention, because it says something to them. It says that the man is strong enough to know she needs it, and furthermore that he is paying attention to her. If he were not he wouldn’t bother to slap her behind. But of course it is much more than that. Spanking for a girl of a certain mind set is the ultimate attention, the ultimate statement that he cares. Many other emotions, issues, and physical reactions enter into the formula as well, and these vary from girl to girl, but in the final analysis, a girl like the ones I know needs to be spanked because that is what the man who loves her does.
The women I have met who do this thing we do, or who want to very, very much, have had a long history of wanting before they ever acted upon that want. Most knew before puberty that spanking attracted them, and that it was something they liked to think about and perhaps even see, if not actually have happen to them, and most were afraid of that feeling, because it was so strong, so pervasive, so deep.
If such a girl saw a movie, McClintock! for instance, with all the spanking that went on, she might be surprised to notice that those around her, the rest of the audience, did not have the heart flutters and rapid breathing she suffered at the time. She might have been shocked that the other people seemed immune to the Siren call of the handsome men’s big hands slapping those pretty women’s bottoms with such reckless abandon. It felt so right that the men in that film should do that to the girls, and yet at the same time, it felt wrong somehow that she should feel the way she did, as if she would have gladly traded places with Stephanie Powers or Maureen O’Hara in an instant, for the chance to feel what they were feeling when the Duke and his handsome son smacked their behinds. And so for the most part they kept quiet about it, because such thoughts and desires were altogether too different from the thoughts and desires of others to be acceptable, which often led to guilt and fear, suppression and renunciation of the attraction, until such time as it became no longer repressible, and came bubbling to the surface years or even decades later.
Such women as do this thing we do may or may not have been spanked as children, or since. Some even may have been physically abused, and abuse is the absolute antithesis of spanking as I practice it. Nevertheless, these women were able to get past that horrible experience and go on to desire the more humane, the more thoughtful, the more purposeful, beautiful, and consensual version of spanking.
But it appears to me, after checking with over a hundred women on the subject, that there is no direct correlation between whether the girl was spanked as a child and her subsequent desire to participate consensually in the activity. In fact I noted something like a fifty-fifty split between women who were and those who were not spanked as children, and yet all still found their way into this thing we do, either as active participants or eager observers who need only the right opportunity to practice what I preach.
For some women, the simple, physical act of being spanked is enjoyable, counterintuitive as that idea might be, even if the actual feeling is not always exactly pleasant. It hurts to be hit, so one would think, but to be spanked, for this kind of girl, is not at all the same as being hit. The best analogy I know is to think of having the back of your neck rubbed by a professional who really knows what she is doing. She digs her thumbs right into those tight muscles and pushes hard, stretching the fibers and making them relax, which really hurts – but in a good way. The tension flows out of your body on waves of pain, and you let go of the stress along with the pain, and when it quits hurting you find that you have relaxed, and afterwards you can move your head around a lot more easily. In that same way, girls find spanking therapeutic – hurt that drives out other hurt, pain that displaces worse pain, the psychological pain, of guilt, anxiety, fear, or depression.
Not every spanking, however, is meant to be a catharsis, and some girls find a great deal of pleasure in being spanked for no reason at all. Some girls can be spanked for hours by a single partner, or possibly several, for instance with a group of like-minded friends at a party. Such a girl can and will ask for what she needs, or lets it be known she is into such things, sometimes just by showing up at these parties. This is not to say that this light-hearted, unassuming activity is the only way in which she participates, and there is no stigma attached to a girl who bounces from lap to lap at parties, enjoying the energetic attentions of several partners over the course of an evening or a weekend.
This same girl, however, could very well be involved in a quite monogamous relationship on every other level, and have very different reactions to and feelings for the spankings she gets from her committed partner in that activity, but at a party it is all fun and games, the point of which is to acquire as much stimulation to her bottom as comfortably – and here comfortably is very much a relative and subjective term – possible before she must return to her everyday life. Coming home after a party with more or less durable marks on her bum is expected, and there is a certain feeling of loss, or party drop, as the marks fade away, so she is very fortunate indeed if there is someone at home to renew that feeling straight away, even if he does feel more than a bit wiped out himself from spanking several other girls at the same party.
But then at quite a different segment of the spanking experience continuum might be a girl who needs very much to be spanked, but who would never ask for such a thing, though she will go to great lengths to find a man who can and will satisfy that need, and then do whatever it takes to let him know what she requires. These are girls who give themselves to only one man at a time, and then only when he proves he can and will come and get her, and do whatever is necessary to sort her out. This girl desperately needs boundaries, and at the same time will fight desperately against having any such boundaries imposed. Only when this man has shown her, usually by spanking her bottom hard and making her listen to him when he tells her that she has no choice but to accept the boundaries he thinks best for her, will she accept that he is in charge and come to him fully.
Dev, good afternoon.
A Victorian title suggestion.
Thoughts on spanking, it’s philosophy and moral justification, not to forget it’s excellent results, by a lifelong practitioner.
Warm
Paul.
Spanking: An Idiot’s Guide to This Thing We Do
or
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SPANKING
but didn’t have anybody to ask
This is going to be a great book. A manual, a how-to guide.
Hey, I bet it can go in the do-it-yourself category too!
Hey, not bad! But now I REALLY don’t know what to call it. :waits:
Do you want your title to be a musing (One Top’s View) or a pontification (Elements)? Apologies, calling “Elements” a pontification is much too strong, but somehow, the word just called to me.
Then again, anyone who says “roughly a hundred percent of heterosexual women…” might just be pontificating. Hm. I don’t seem to be any help this morning.
Cindy’s suggestions are apt. However, using “Idiot’s Guide” or “For Dummies” in the title is likely to raise objections from their respective publishers. I mean the kind that can land you in court.
I look forward to finding this book in the DIY section of my local library. In LA it could happen.
How bout ‘Spanking 101′ or ‘Administering Chastisement – A guide for the dumb male’ or ‘Turn Her Rosy’ or ‘Making Her Blush’ or ‘It’s spanking not rocket science!’
Jay, you do get straight to the bottom of things, don’t you?
“50 Ways to Spank your Lover” has a nice ring to it, also sounds familiar.
50 shades of Owwwwwwch
This male is only dumb in the sense that he lets the spanking do the talking.
“Spanking Delights: A Top’s Guide to Bottoms”
Unhelpful surfeit of titles:
“Never Over The Knee’d: How To Top”
“Top Your Way To The Bottom”
“Pains Me To Say: A Top Speaks”
“Toppity Notions”
“Spankapalooza”
Which could be followed by a second book: Fifty Shades Redder.
Dev,
I see you have been pondering life’s mysteries once again. You never cease to amaze me that you can go from just being a spanking machine to a philosophy major in such a short span of time. I look forward to the finish product.
As for title ideas?:
Giving her what she wants and needs
Fulfilling her dreams the old fashion way
Women if you want to live with them, learn to spank them
Dev, whilst I could query the 100% of heterosexual women idea, I agree so wholeheartedly with attention aspect and the one partner description that I can’t bring myself to quibble.
How about “What you always wanted to know about spanking, but never dared ask”?
“The Anatomy of Spanking”?
“Spanking, by a Professor of the Art”?
Dev, now that I am fully awake and have reread what I wrote in my first paragraph this morning, I’m afraid it sounds rather cheeky. I’m sorry.
Yeah, I wondered how we could change it.
I don’t think there’s a Moron’s Guide series, is there? Goof’s Guide?
Ha! Cheeky Girl’s Guide!
“Never Over the Kneed”!
I LOVE that!
{I queried that 100% figure too, dd, but he seemed pretty sure so who was I to argue?}
I’m a heterosexual woman and nobody asked me.
I didn’t get asked either, Kaki.
Glad it’s not just me, Cindy, on the 100%.
I think whilst there are women who are naturally submissive, there are also those who who have not realised submissive tendencies, those who are not submissive but would sometimes like control over them, those who just want to be spanked for fun or sexual gratification, but also women who would adamantly refuse to allow anyone to spank them and see no enrichment to their lives if they tried it.
Glad you raised the “heterosexual ” aspect Kaki and Em, I was going to query that as well.
Does it mean only gay women can be dominant or not want to be spanked?
Only you all focused on the ‘slap on the bum’ I think and ignored the ‘right man in the right circumstances’ part when you got to the 100% quote. And I stand by the figure since I did say it was my observation.
Anyway, sorry I’m late. I’m out of town and had internet connection issues earlier.
“Bubble and Spank: English Cuisine, American Spanking”
I think the answer is pretty much a given, don’t you?
Oh, and I did say ‘roughly’ so there is a cushion for error factored in.
I do love the titles you girls are coming up with, Pygmalion and Jay and CJ specially. Very, um, helpful, Yes. Lily, I completely sympathize, and I do give leeway to girls who are not awake yet. A little leeway, anyhow.
Sorry, Dev, despite the “right man in the right circumstance”, I still stand by my conviction that spanking won’t work for all women (regardless of sexual preference). Or, indeed that all men would like to be the spanker.
If your theory holds true, life ŵould be a lot simpler for all of us!
I think it hold true in Devland, dd, and that’s all that matters.
Not all of us. I wasn’t bothered at all by your 100% figure. I’m not sure if that is because I know how to do statistical sampling or in spite of it. It just didn’t seem essential to your point.
Thank you, sir.
I could rewrite that whole paragraph to sound like you had a professional pollster come up with the figures:
Based on a sample of XXX heterosexual women, using a confidence factor of xx, the poll revealed that 100% of the women… . The margin of error is x%. I was forced to take statistics in college and designed and carried out studies on the job. You just can’t make data that interesting.
Cindy, whilst I would agree with you that it holds true in Devlinland, and that is all very well and good, if Dev is publishing this book for general perusal on Amazon, or such like, then the 100% even if caveated as his observation, could be a green light to would be Tops whose partners really don’t want to be a reddened bottom.
Dev, you’re going to get women accusing you again of not being a man at all, but rather a woman in disguise.
I don’t know if 100% is right or not, but a while back the NY Times ran a column on how women need Viagra now, or something like it, because sexual desire is decreasing. (Don’t get all upset if yours isn’t–this was written by a sexual therapist based on her observations.) Her point was that we have become so gender neutral that the sexual tension that used to exist more clearly before has been diluted. (Think Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, for example. And she was a very forthright and opinionated woman who absolutely submitted to him in their private life–an interesting sidenote.)
So spanking yes or no is perhaps not the real question: (although of course it is for Dev’s book!–Bubble and Spank, is it?) but rather do men need to be men when they are with their women, and somewhat less testosterone based when in mixed society?
I just returned from a meeting with all men–a few dozen of them, and I was the only woman there. As always, it was a revelation. Girls, we really really really really are different.
This was a long way of saying I like the chapter, Dev!
Scarlet, I agree, men and women are different. I’ve worked with all men and all women in the past. Women talk about sex and food, men talk about sports and stuff, what? I don’t know. I only heard
Men are just so…naturally aggressive. Naturally dominant. Naturally in touch with emotions like anger. They dress it all up so nicely, shave, slap on some cologne and a shirt and slacks, and we think they’re just like us.
Ha!
Such a facade. A wild man lurks right beneath the surface.
Now that is a sweeping generalization, so don’t bother reminding me of it. I know it. There are surely some gentle men who don’t need to command and control, and in fact prefer it the other way. I know a few, not all of them gay.
I’m just saying if you draw them away from the cave and the fire a bit, and they find themselves in their natural habitat with the wolves and the lions, it won’t be long before they’re using their teeth to discipline the herd. (Or maybe a paddle, if they come across a woman who likes that kind of thing in a guy, and says its okay. Which is precisely how it should be, because otherwise absolute power corrupts absolutely, but now I think I’m drifting away from my wildlife metaphor into monarchy, and that’s not where I intended to go.)
dd, I said one slap on the bum, not a weekend at Shadow Lane, for pity’s sake!
I think if a woman truly isn’t a bottom, that’s not going to be a problem. And if it is a problem? Then their issues are bigger than the words printed in a book.
I get what you’re saying, I really do. But I think those particular words migh spark a dialogue. And frankly, I don’t see this book being read by someone who isn’t already at least a little interested in this thing.
Aren’t you up kind of late?
I don’t see how man, woman or beast wouldn’t naturally be submissive to Spencer Tracy!
dd, another word for a would be Top like that is “bully” or perhaps “abuser.” A guy like that would probably see any percentage over 0 as a green light and would miss the rest of Dev’s thought, too.
I’ve always been convinced that we have different planets of origin.
Kind of like the Men are from Mars thing, huh?
Have you ever seen this video? Talking about the difference between men’s brains and women’s brains? This guy is brilliant. And funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjUFYxSxDk&feature=fvwrel
Cindy, yes, but I was saying different planets of origin long before John Gray wrote that book. Great minds.
Thank you, that video is wonderful. It’s so true – the minute you start telling a guy your problem, he starts trying to fix it when all you are trying to do is figure it out by talking. I want a nothing box.
Dev, I’m looking forward to reading your book.
As for a title, how about “Spankipedia: Professor O’Neill Answers Your Questions”?
Thanks, Mindy! I’m getting a lot of great suggestions about the title, and I really appreciate it.
Actually, I think that Mars is far too close to Venus, I think men are from a different solar system entirely
Cindy, there was absolutely no need to mention that I was up a tad late last night. I’m on holiday, sitting on a terrace overlooking the med, drinking Rose and smelling delectably of anti-mosi spray, therefore usual rules are suspended. BBH returns tomorrow, so may as well play whilst I can
I think Women are from Venus and men are from Uranus.
dd, I think your terrace overlooking the Mediterranean sounds pretty wonderful. I hope you enjoy every minute of it.
The whole idea of women and men being different is not a problem for me at all. I love the yin and the yang of it, the utter unknowability of someone who is an “other,” who makes my pulse race.
Although it is nice when we can agree on a movie.
Oh, and dd, you’re right. My bad. You ARE on holiday. Plus you are probably in a different time zone? Maybe? Maybe even a different day? I can’t keep track of that stuff.
I am so jealous as I sit here in hot humid miserableness.
Hi Cindy! I am sitting in hot and humid miserableness too, although not so bad as before after last night’s thunderstorms. It will slowly build back up though. It is still summer.
When I was younger I didn’t get the appeal of Spencer Tracy. I do now, though.
Scarlet, my terrace is very wonderful and will be better still tomorrow evening.
I so agree on the yin and the yang, life would be so dull without it.
I like summer! I’ll complain about the humidity, but wait until it’s really cold. You woulnd’t believe how much I can whine!
Enjoy your holiday, dd!
dd, want to trade places?
Absolutely, Kaki, you can have my spanking whilst I finish off the last book of 50 shades of nonsense
At least you have a summer, Cindy, ours has gone walkabout for the last few years and re-emerges at the strangest times.
I guess I’m lucky because this week we got heat, but no humidity. Maybe not lucky, exactly, but you take what you can get.
Paul, I keep picturing that title on a large format, coffee table book. Such a format would have ample room for both the entire title and Dev’s name. The book would be illustrated with Victorian or Victorian-style drawings, of course, though I do wonder how many people would actually display such a book on a coffee table.
After watching clips from “Inherit the Wind” a few weeks ago, I decided it was time to view the movie again. One of my better ideas. It is an astonishing, splendid, magnificent, stunning, brilliant, ingenious, sensational, stupendous, remarkable, spectacular, wonderful film. (Sorry, I got a little carried away there because I just discovered Thesaurus.com.) I found it to be just as moving now as it was when I first saw it years ago. If you have not watched it in a while, you should do so. (Of course, that was not an order, sir, just an emphatic suggestion.)
I’ve been in the desert and if you can find shade, you can stay pretty comfortable, I found. Low humidity is amazing. I went outside this morning after a brief shower and I swear there was no oxygen to be had. It was thick as a brick.
Oh, yeah, I wouldn’t care for that at ALL, dd. And after the winter you all had you deserved at least a tiny bit of summer!
I would have thought that the next month would have been the time to escape London.
Humidity is horrid, Cindy. Here it’s dry and in the thirties. If it rains it’s for a few hours at night, normally, then it’s fresh and slightly cooler. The only thing to really watch out for is the mistral, a dry wind which sweeps through and makes me and younger jnr really antsy (along with many others), BBH and the elder one don’t seem to get affected. I’ve discovered, over the years the best way of coping is to go into the older part of the nearest town where the streets are really narrow and the wind doesn’t seem to get through.
The winds can also help fuel really spectacular fires, as olive trees like to explode when set alight. Great to watch from a distance but a bit scary if you have evacuate, as we did a couple of years ago.
Cindy, I have a 70 ft. cedar that shades the front of my house and a 45 ft. elm that shades the back, not to mention the three other trees in my yard and the two at the curb. So, I have plenty of shade. And if the shade isn’t enough to keep me cool, I can always put on a wet T shirt. Evaporative cooling works just fine. At home, any way.
dd, we have similar winds here in Southern California where they are called Santa Ana winds. Those winds can turn a 2 acre fire
into a 200 acre fire 
in not much more than a blink of an eye.
Lily, those fires are really scary. Do yours make people go bonkers too? Van Gough probably cut his ear off in the middle of a mistral, actually I don’t know that, I’m just surmising!
Santa Anas put everyone on edge.
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
“Red Wind,” Raymond Chandler 1938
Dev, that’s it precisely.
Heart’s Mistral Wind, a beautiful song that I find as disquieting as the Santa Anas.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOfQaYPYXSo&feature=related
Not sure I ever heard that, and yes, disturbing.
Thanks! 
Dd, is that the same Mistral in the book/movie Chocolat?
Mistral would be a good name for a cat.
Dev, love the Raymond Chandler selection!
Thanks for that, Lily. I love Heart but I don’t remember hearing that before. That kind of fits my mood this morning. It’s grey and drizzly here, and actually cool outside.
You are welcome.
Scarlet, Mistral would be a great name for a cat. Who has Connie and the kittens now?
My ‘satiable curiosity made me look for the whole story. The rest is not quite as intriguing as the first paragraph Dev quoted, but it’s a good story. It can be downloaded as a .pdf file.
http://www.americasinging.com/wordpress2/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Raymond-Chandler.pdf
One does have to cherry-pick with Chandler and Hammett and their sort.
Scarlet, yes the same Mistral as in Chocolat!
We also get Sirocco winds down here, which in summer dump a whole load of sand everywhere, luckily they are rare!
Either of them can be up to 90 mph and can cause huge fires. Plus both change the atmosphere. Dev’s quote is completely apposite.
Last year I was trying to pursued an antsy jar that swimming in the rain was fun, when it turned to muddy hail, even I accepted defeat…
Ok, flipping I-pad, change that to persuade and jar to jnr and you’ll get my drift. Am now off to work out how to turn off prescriptive text on this wonderful gadget!
dd, go to Settings – General – Keyboard – Auto-Correction to turn that off.
Mindy, you’re a star
Thanks 
Hey, Mindy! You must have been having a busy week? Whatcha got planned for your Saturday?
Wanted to spray my rose plants but that’s not looking possible with the sky looking overcast. So, will settle with staying indoors.
How’s your packing coming along?
Fine. It’s pretty hot in the attic, I’ll tell you.
I’ve decided to just take what I know I want and a private company will come in and pack everything else up and take it to Kansas City for an auction.
I like old stuff, but I can’t keep everything. There’s nobody to pass it on to and no reason to hold onto it.
I’ve asked that if they find anything with local historical value that it stays, being donated to the County Historical Society or the Special Collection department at the local university.
Once that decision was made it’s been a lot easier to deal with everything. I just don’t want to hang onto all this ‘stuff’.
Good job!
Did you guys know they’re working on a smaller iPad? Same size as the Kindle Fire. If they do it and keep the price at around 200$, it will run the Kindle right off the map.
I’ll get one because it will be so much easier to carry around than the iPad. I almost got a Kindle Fire just for that reason.
Cool. My daughter wants a Kindle Fire before school starts this fall, as it’s easier to download text books than it is to lug heavy things around. A small iPad would be even better, but timing is going to dictate the Kindle I think.
That’s a great decision, Cindy. I love the excitement of a fresh start.
I guess a smaller iPad is easier to carry around and with a smaller price tag, it makes it more affordable. But I do love the bigger screen.
Oh, yeah, it would never take the place of the iPad for me. But I think it has it’s place!
I do, too, Mindy. I think if i could have Word on my iPad it would be perfect. Then I would probably get a keyboard for it.
God, that makes me feel so old! I had to lug those textbooks! These kids don’t know how good they’ve got it!
Just for curiosity sake, are they cheaper than bound books? Probably not.
I imagine the new iPad won’t be out till spring. I know they’re coming out with iPhone 5 and traditionally, that’s a ‘fall’ thing.
You know there’s an app for that, right?
What can the Ipad do that the Kindle Fire can’t? I think the Kindle Fire is pretty cool, of course all they have loaded on the ones in the store is Go Dog Go and two other books, but it still looks pretty neat.
I don’t understand why paper books cost around the same as ebooks, doesn’t make sense. No trees were killed and processed into paper, no ink, no factories to print the books and distributed and no people to do any of that. So who is keeping all the extra money, I bet it isn’t the authors.
Yeah, it’s almost as good as an iPad!
there was supposed to be a grin at the end of that. It fell off, I guess.
Apple has all the great apps, kaki.
The only complaint I have against the iPad is the lack of a delete key on the keyboard.
I downloaded Smart Office 2 when it was offered free. Haven’t really used it but it seems to do be able to do basic word processing and can handle spreadsheets and presentations.
It will be released in November.
Cindy, great plan!
Much better than burning 
the house down. 
Amazon has to cover their nut, kakio!
Yeah, I looked into it, Lily. It just wasn’t cost effective.
I think the ebooks are marginally cheaper than paperbacks on Amazon.
Can i write and create files and email them as attachments? Then my life would be perfect.
Yes, you can. But before you get the app, compare it with other apps. I downloaded it as it was free at that time. I think it’s about $5 at the moment. See Smart Office 2 at iTunes.
Cindy, just how big is their nut?
Do Kindles have apps?
I just want everyone to know that I turned my air condtioning off today and it rained, a lot, real rain, not just a sprinkle.
Oh, Kaki, their nut is HUGE!
For five dollars, i just downloaded it! Thank you! I’m going on vacation in August, plus will be out of my office for several other things, and my laptop feels so big and heavy now…I much prefer traveling with my iPad.
Enjoy the cooler weather, Kaki!
I don’t want to hear that. It’s 95 with 80% hunidity right now.
Same here, Kakio! It’s 64 degrees, and the weekend won’t hit 80. Yay! I am going to take a long walk, and work in my garden and sleep in the hammock. Oh, July. I love you after all!
And it is so weird. In the last 2 hotels I’ve been in, I’ve had to borrow a cable from the front desk to connect to the internet. In the same spot, the iPad picks up the wireless signal with no problem. I don’t know what that means.
Yes, they do. Apps for Andriod. Check it out here.
But you do have air conditioning. Think of the pioneers who settled Kansas! Oh, the suffering!
I hate ALL OF YOU!
Except Mindy cause it’s winter there (ha) and she deserves to be cold. You guys don’t deserve to be cold. Why are you cold and I’m swealtering?
Want me to edit out the waiting smiley for you?
I just looked at the price of textbooks. Yikes.
Dev, maybe you should look into having this book published as a text book. In which case, of course, Elements of Spanking would be the title to go with. I’m sure it will be no problem at all to find colleges willing to use it.
There’s 12.
There’s a billion apps for Apple.
Right there’s your difference.
No, it was worth it. I’ll take my licks for it.
Besides then we’d BOTH get in trouble. If you’d a just done it, it would have been FINE. But you had to go and ask me first so he would get that email.
Gosh, Mindy. You’re slipping! You feel ok?
Um,…. because you are in Kansas and we are up north.
Sorry, Cindy, but I think if we didn’t get a break I would go crazy. We are going to go to the orchard and pick corn and maybe blueberries (if there are any left). If I have time I will try to get some weeding done in the garden. Maybe if the ground isn’t hard as a rock I could get my Shepherd’s Hook in the ground.
I can’t take the crazy heat.
Cindy, it’s hot and humid here, too. I can’t even enjoy driving with the top down.
I don’t know if they’re cheaper…my daughter is in the !!!!BOING!!!!! Category of expenses. She’s very sweet and she tries not to be expensive…she just can’t help it. Roman says he hopes she finds a successful husband…her plan is to save the world, so she won’t be the one making money.
Can’t Mindy go back and delete the comments too? Dev will be too busy to read all the comments when he comes back. I said a few “questionable” things lately and he let them go so you are probably safe. He has been awfully scarce around here lately.
Hi, Mindy. We hardly ever seem to get here at the same time…
You shouldn’t have said anything, I didn’t even notice.
Gosh, I must be slipping. 
I started to buy a magazine yesterday and I happened to glance at the price. When did magazines get to be $10? Last time I paid attention, they were like $6, tops.
WalMart has school supplies out. I love going down that aisle and I remember how excited I used to be to get new school supplies! New crayons and tablets and pencils.
I found something interesting on that aisle. A ruler I’ve never seen before. I could see lots of different craft applications for this ruler. It was only a couple bucks so I got one. It’s red. I hung in on my pegboard above my sewing table. I didn’t see the name on it till this afternoon. Yep, I bought me a red flexi-rulers.
I was curious so I smacked myself on the bare thigh with it.
owwwwwwwww
Hi, Lily! Silly time difference means that it’s only on weekends that I get to chat with you all.
Cindy, you may just be a New England girl at heart.
I would have about 2 good days a year to utilize a convertible.
And you got beaches. Plus, you can drive an hour or so to get to Big Bear and great weather. So I dont’ want to hear whining from you.
Don’t you have mosquitoes the size of pigeons there?
Ha ha ha! But I don’t want to think about back to school yet! It’s too soon!
When you find your Top-Lite, you’ll be able to offer him the flexi-ruler.
I love Top-lite! Next comes Top-free!
I used to wait up for her to chat. She gets home about 1am, my time. I jsut haven’t had the energy lately.
Red? What an interesting color selection, a person could use that to match color shades or skin tones.
Maybe. Don’t you have grasshoppers the size of baseballs?
What is your point, exactly?
Every comment we make gets emailed to him. He’s probably already read it. It might have slipped through but good old Mindy there had to draw attention to it.
In for a penny, in for a pound. I may as well say bad words too!
ALRIGHT?
Kaki, I can send you one. Do you like red too?
or….. Top-less.
You don’t have Walmart? How is that even possible?
mosquitoes bite and grasshoppers just spit at you
Well, if it’s so hot and humid, ….
As long as you’re not bottomless I guess your alright. cause I’m telling you: that will get you smacked in a hurry.
That’s what the blite is with Dev away. Who’s in charge around here anyway? I suppose if someone has to be, it could be me. I am an excellent role model.
Mindy, I would love one but you don’t have Walmarts in the land down under so we are both at a disadvantage. Right?
I am still having trouble with those dang gum stick things from the mini blinds. Those suckers leave marks like a freakin cane. Or at least so I’ve heard.
I’m guessing she is bottomless, Cindy!
Did anyone tell you that I thought you were a Top when I first got here? Yeah, I was stunned when I found out you weren’t.
So, go ahead.
I think we should have a Magna Carta or Constitution or somehting. No Flexi-rulers should be the first Article.
Town council had a meeting, when they said they wanted to sell flexirulers that was tie breaker.
I think those rulers are available in Kmart here.
Good point.
Cindy, you are the dufus that bought it.
And I heard they are very quiet. In case of company or other house occupants or something. So….. no noise.
Really??????
It is my natural ability to be nonsensical no matter the subject, I am sure!
Sometimes I’m up when Mindy is home since I rarely go to bed before 2 AM, but not so much lately. Hooray for weekends when we can all party.
You’re not North of me! You’re EAST of me! Zone 6, right?
But the recipient may not be that silent.
Scarlet did you mean this emoticon?
or 
or 
or maybe 
Kaki, do you think I have Top-like qualities? I suppose I am often confused!
NO! I meant
I’m off to pick up my daughter. Later, gators!
GASP! You called me a NAME!
That’ll get you a howler, kakio! You really want another one?
And I MEANT that they should not be sold to anyone with the intent of NOT measuring or drawing with it!
Night, Scarlet!
Don’t hurt your back, Scarlet!!
Remember to lift with your knees!
And it’s DOOFUS!
God, how many times do I have to tell you and Jay how to spell that word!
I’m not whining. I’m having a tantrum. That’s different. Yep, we do have beaches, but it is gray and gloomy and depressing there. To get to Big Bear in an hour, I’d have to drive about 120 mph, some of it on winding, mountain roads. Wait, that sounds like fun. Hm…
So, Kaki, did you manage to make it through the millions of Android apps yet?
Do you mean real bad words or just saying crap a few times like I did a couple months ago? I think you should go for it, after all when was the last time you got a real howler?
Aren’t you still a queen?
I have to get up at the buttcrack of dawn to go work a rummage sale for the kiwanis in the morning. I don’t know why we can’t do this kind of stuff at NIGHT.
I tried to tell them I joined the Noon Kiwanis club instead of the “before it’s even light outside Kiwanis club” because I don’t like to get up early in the morning.
They didn’t care. They didn’t even listen.
They don’t have to listen. They’re Kiwanis.
I think so, I am east and slightly north. You should move here. I will help you stay out of trouble.
So early on a Saturday morning. Yikes.
At least it should be cool then.
Have fun, Scarlet.
Slip some of your cast offs in the pile.
Will it be air conditioned? That is the first question I would ask before I voluteered.
You’re just full of little bon mots tonight, aren’t you Miss Merry Sunshine
It’s in a barn like structure. I doubt if it’s air conditioned!
That’s ok, I’m pioneer stock. I’m a horse. I can handle anything they throw at me.
Cindy Lou, both doofus and dufus are acceptable spellings.
{NO! then I’d a had to MARK stuff. That’s the WORST! Don’t tell them I’ve even GOT cast offs, kaki, or I swear!}
The way you drive a bus you could pass for a Top, even if you are a little out of practice.
The confused as a Top emoticon was me deciding which of the selection had you pegged.
Remember that my life path number is 3. “Threes are optimistic … and are able to find positive in everything around them.”
Acceptable to whom?
Then quit yer whining about 95 degree temps and 80% humidity, it could be a lot worser you know.
The WORLD, Lily, just try googling it. Maybe somebody needs to mail you a flexiruler.
Cindy has one that she doesn’t seem to want.
Kaki, I Googled. I found this, see definition 2.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dufus
Thanks, but I really don’t need another ruler.
I saw that one, missy. And one and three (and two) spell it dufus.
Hrummp. I wish we had the raspberry emoticon back.
I only have a couple apps on my phone and the ones I have my friend told me to put them on. I mostly use the Words with Friends app. I wonder if people that use iPads win more games because they have an advantage of bigger letters whereas people playing on tiny phone screens have a hard time seeing them.
Hmmm, sounds like it’s time to place Let’s make a Deal.
Good try, Kaki!
Perhaps, people with Apple products get better letters since Apple has rights to EVERYTHING.
This works too!
Really?
How?
Ha ha, I do have good letters in this game.
And I’m doing more whining about the getting up so early.
That’s true, I used it on you up further somewheres.
Don’t you DARE! Don’t forget, I know where ALL the bodies is buried, girlie.
Good
night, all. I am 
very tired. 
and have stuff to do tomorrow. Have a 
pleasant night, and a nice afternoon, Mindy. 
Cindy, don’t forget, I have something on you so if you don’t want me to let those Kawanas (I don’t care about spelling, I am tired) know about the stuff you are getting rid of then you have to be nice to me and do whatever I say.
Sweet dreams, Kaki!
So, I’m your SLAVE now? is that how this works?
Have a good night, Cindy. I hope it gets cooler for you.
I’m venturing out into the garden.
Nights, Mindy! Be careful of those rose bushes. They’re thorny!
Kaki and Cindy, you BOTH are in deep trouble. You do not use the forbidden emoticons and you keep the language civil and you do NOT call one another names, regardless how you spell them. Is that perfectly clear to both of you?
And Mindy, you know better than to aid and abet, young lady, so consider yourself warned as well. :waits:
Yep, pretty much.
Good morning, Professor. Did you have a good sleep? You look well rested.
Hmmm looks like trouble has been brewing on this lovely blite.
The saying “when the cats away the mice will play” comes to mind.
I hope everyone has a wonderful day today! May life be a
for you.
I asked you a question, Kaki. :waits:
kaki maybe you should use this
or 
more often?
CJ, stop being helpful please.
Yes Sir, sorry I was typing that before you showed up. Timing was a bit off…
It’s all right, CJ.
I’m hot, i’m in sunshine for the first time in forever. I’d like to party
I was here last night, too, Dev, and I offered to be a role model for the girls, but they thought they could handle it on their own.
Clearly they were mistaken.
Next time tell me when you go away and I’ll look after things for you.
Uh huh. Another girl being OH so helpful, I see. :waits:
One does what one can.
I see no forbidden emoticons having been used and the only name calling was done by Kaki Ann, so I fail to see why _I’M_ in trouble!
YOU KNOW THIS WOULDN’T HAPPEN IF YOU DIDN’T LEAVE US UNCHAPPERONED SO OFTEN!!
just sayin
Inspired by this, I just watched “McLintock!”. Yes, the exclamation point is part of the title. I have to say, for ‘John Wayne spanks a dame’ action, I prefer “Donovan’s Reef”.
Maybe I just feel more at home in the tropics.
I’d feel silly being a chaperone and not spanking the chaperoned girl for something.
There’s always something.
I think I meant unsupervised, didn’t I.
You know, we could have used you last night. We all got in trouble cause there was no one here to watch us.
Why do you never show up when we need you the most? You’re not an LA policeman, are you?
Dev, I don’t know if you think I owe you an apology, but I think I do. I don’t know if I made things worse last night, but I did nothing to calm the waters, either. I should have just stayed quiet. I apologize for not having done so. Sir, has the list reached the size of the LA phone book yet?
Apropos of nothing, have you listened to “Jack of all Trades” from Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball album? It is a heartrendingly beautiful song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtGb5MPCMlg
If you want to read the lyrics, you can find them on Springsteen’s website. Well, you can find them on lots of lyrics sites, too, but only the Boss seems to know that “all right” is two words. (Just trying to keep you from being irritated, sir.) The lyrics appear when you click on the four lines after the song title.
http://brucespringsteen.net/albums/wrecking-ball
I hear you dd, been hot here for so long when it gets in the 90′s I am looking for a parka!
As to a party? hmmmmm What shall be our “reason”? Do you think that “he who shall not be named” is going to stay in a snit?
Scarlet me thinks your halo is held abover her head with a few devilish horns.
How about orchestrating our party today? Since you seem to be in charge.
Yes, I like “Dononvans Reef” also, but the “Quiet Man” is a favorite too!
Lily,
Thank you, this song is so beautiful, it hurts.
Sadly it is very hard for me to watch films anymore, but thank you anyway.
Warm
Paul.
I think if we’re going to have a party tonight it had better be a costume ball. Everyone should select a mask and a domino. It’s best if Dev doesn’t know who’s who, you see. we shall hold the party in the grotto, lit by paper lanterns.
Yeah! And we should get new avatars and fake email addresses! Make it a REAL costume party!
This is gonna be fun!
Uh, the grotto is by the pool, right?
I don’t speak Floridian.
Our theme will be A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as this is truly midsummer now! And with all the complaints about wither the heat or the rain, the cold or the drought, perhaps we should celebrate July.
We will need a refreshments committee, and if there are to be spankings, I must insist that somehow they fit our theme as well. (that should slow down the rate of punishments for misbehavior!)
By all means, Cindy, if you want to get us KILLED!
Yes, go to the pool and take a left by the cabana. There’s a path there that leads to the grotto.
Now if any Tops want to come, they must be “a sweet faced man, a proper man, as one shall find on a summer’s day.”
Ya hear?
Paul, I’m sorry if it is harder to see. Have I told you I love you?
Bravo Scarlet, I knew you were the one to get us going!! I shall endeavor to dress appropriately. Now as to behaving, well the night is young!!
I must attend to some important tasks. However, I shall return post haste.
Cindy, my friend I must ask do you have a death wish for us all?
Scarlet,
thank you, it’s something I’m learning to live with.
I wish that I could meet you all, for me you are all very special.
Warm
Paul.
Scarlet, do I get to light a
again? PLEASE 
Acceptance. That comes with wisdom, of which you have trunks full.
You are so very dear.
Now come and dance with us tonight!
Cindy walks on the edge…
CJ, you ae in charge of ALL the lights–fire, and otherwise! We shall look to you for bonfires, candles, torches and lanterns! You are the Mistress of Fire tonight…
Scarlet.
Wave your magic wand and I will dance with you all night, and tread on no toes.
Warm
Paul.
I have made it so! Tonight is magical, blessed by Mother Moon. Every night blooming flower will smell more fragrant, there will be evening Skylarks in the air, and years will melt away. The music will intoxicate. The punch will taste like Summer’s sweetest berries. We will have stars in our eyes, and love will be all around us, like moonbeams. The very breeze will shimmer, and we will find laughter in our throats. You, Paul, will have all the verve and energy of a young man again, and handsome and carefree, you will dance with all of us until the first pale light of dawn.
You’ll have to teach me, Paul, cause pretty much the only real dance I can do is the polka.
Oh, come ON! Where’s your adventurous spirit!
And if you two hadn’t squealed, I bet I could have gotten the new girls to do it.
Scarlet,
who will I be, Bottom.
I love that play, seen it half a dozen times, best in the open, in summer.
Yes, I will dance all night, if only in my dreams.
Warm
Paul.
Paul, yes, so beautiful it hurts, yet so compelling that I cannot stop listening to it. I makes me appreciate that for all the sorrows and difficulties of my life, I am blessed. And grateful for being so fortunate.
I’m sorry that it is difficult for you to see, but you know, sir, “Inherit the Wind” depends so much on beautifully delivered dialogue, not action, that you might enjoy it all the same. (One of my favorite lines is “It is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”)
I’ll leave you with another Springsteen song that is a favorite of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOZotnFhLA&feature=related
The first week I was here, I got this brilliant idea to do it. Yeah, I thought, well heck, I can say anything I want and he won’t know it’s me, right?
Uh huh. I thought I came up with it. It didn’t work. Oh what howlers I got!
Nobody tried to stop me, they just let me go on and on and on.
I bet you would have at least warned me, huh, CJ?
No, dearest, tonight you are Puck, sending all of us whirling around you.
Cindy,
just get Scarlet to wave her magic wand and you will dance like Titania.
Warm
Paul.
Why does that idea fill me with glee, Cindy? You shall be Polka Mistress! Find us an accordian player, please.
Lily,
it was this song that made start listening to Bruce, but thank you anyway.
I will look for that film, but not tonight, I’m too tired.
Night all.
Warm
Paul.
Do you like my mask?
Paul, I have excellent taste in music then, don’t I?
Rest well.
Oh, In Disguise, I love your mask!
I hope Dev does…
I can work magic, Paul, not miracles…
Ok, I got a mask and I’ll take double 6′s as my donimo.
Be careful of the cool deck around the pool, CJ, I’m still paying for that last time out of my allowance.
Yeah, see you later!
Okie Doke!
Yep I would of told you Cindy!
I have found a site that has beautiful clothing we can wear. What do you think?
http://www.thedarkangel.co.uk/en/index/a1
*sigh* a midsummer party, with lanterns and pims and strawberries. (ok, i know there is an emoticon for sigh but they seem to move around so much it takes me forever to find them).
Cindy, I love to polka with or without a partner, so Strauss is on the i-pod, along with The King and I.
Excellent! Mistress of Fire I really like that.
The fires are burning brightly in glass bowls of blue glass stones. They are set around the pool and grotto, lighting the way for all to travel.
Lanterns light your dance floor so Puck can work his magic.
Here you go dd
Did Strauss write polka music?? COOL!
And vodka melon?
And blueberry eton mess?
Hey Cindy you owe me a drink!
Well, Scarlet, I thought I was going to be able to get Frankie Yankovic, but he’s been dead a long time. So then I tried to contact Eddie Blazonczyk outta Chicago, but sadly, he died earlier this summer.
So now I’m down to Gus Polinski, the Polka King of the Midwest or Jimmy Karlinger’s polka band, but I think they’re booked at The Idle Hour tonight.
Oh, want me to make you one of my now famous Summer Scorcher Relief……drink things?
Oh, what a beautiful site! I want EVERYTHING!
Scarlet! They gots CORSETS!
Cindy, me, too. That is how I dress in my head. In real life, no.
Here’s another one. They have masks and crowns, too. I think that Scarlet needs a crown.
http://www.18thcenturycorsets.com/bridal_gowns.html
I deleted the forbidden emoticons you BOTH used.That’t why.
You guys know I get misty when MND is mentioned, unless there is polka music. Then I’m all right.
Well we only have your word for that, don’t we, Dev. And we all know what an imagination you’ve got
You never developed a love of the dance when you was stationed in Minneapolis?
I have never been a sweet-faced man, unless I am severely misunderstanding Ye Olde English.
Cindy, Strauss wrote polkas as well as waltzes. But try listening to The Blue Danube, ignore the schmaltzy connotations, close your eyes, think of the man of your imaginations holding you, lightly clasped to start with, the dance sedate, slow, then getting faster, and as it quickens, you hold tighter as you spin across the dance floor, circling until your head is spinning as quickly as your feet are movin…round and round until you are there with the music and the man you dance with, who is holding you tighter now and leading you into the music…
Oh! That’s delightful, dd! Thank you for that visual.
It’s lots better than the one in my head where Dale is spinning me around the dance floor so fast my feet are flying behind me. You got plumb wore out when you polka’d with Dale.
Oh, I loved to polka long before that, Cindy, as far back as Coventry Garden in old Soho (My Fair Lady)
Sounds wonderful!
I for one much prefer you misty eyed then what you were earlier today.
Ok hang on— this is going to take me awhile to process– Dev and polka.
dd I totally agree with Cindy on the visualization. I don’t know Dale…
Hey, I can dance! Can’t teach a girl to dance if I can’t, right? I mean, besides the ouchy dance but I mean to real music, not the music of the paddle.
Glad you enjoyed it, Cindy and cj. I don’t know Dale either! I tried to do a youtube link but am hopeless with the i-pad. It is one of the most sensuous pices of music ever, if you think of dancing to it and the time it was written.
BBH isn’t the best at more formal dances. But I love to dance with him other times, he leads – I follow…
Ok Ok I believe you! I was just having a hard time visualizing you doing the polka.
But I now it is becoming clear in my minds eye… Just not sure why Saturday Night Fever keeps popping in my head.
No way, CJ! Death before disco.
I can’t dance but I love that piece of music by Strauss. Is this the link you were trying to post, dd?
Dev, hate to correct you but Covent Garden is not in Soho, and Eliza was probably selling flowers outside the Royal Opera House there.
However, I am delighted you can dance properly, so few men can
Thank you, dd, and if the geography is a bit off it’s because I was actually dancing on a stage in Huntspatch, North Hootwater at the time, several decades ago, so the details may have got a bit befuzzled since then.
I think I warned you didn’t I?
CJ, how about imagining him doing this dance?
I am in LOVE with those gowns and corsets. So romantic!
How about sweet-handed? We might go for that…
That is the problem today, nobody polkas anymore.
Mindy, love the dancing guy! Aren’t you going to add him?
Oh GAWD mindy that is fantastic!! You have to add it!!!
Oh Mindy! I love The Egyptian Dance!
May I ask how many decades we are talking about?
Mindy that is exactly the link I was trying to do.
And for the visualisation, add a corset, a heavily petticoated underskirt, and an off shoulder silk gown, and we’re away!
Mindy, reminds me of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl5dZxA-rZY
Roughly 4
I follow Steve Martin on Twitter and he’s touring with a band this summer!
Let’s do the boogie dance!
By the way, the emoticons are arranged from z to a. So, if you are looking for a particular emoticon, think of its name and you’ll be able to locate it more easily. For example, the dance
starts with d and hence, it’s next to the doctor 
. dd, you were looking for the sigh emoticon 
, which would be nearer the top row, next to the sick 
one.
Kaki, that was funny!
That’s not the boogie dance that the Egyptian DAnce!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5N7RNQUKts
Now if only we could make them look like that, but be as comfortable as sweats…
OK are all of you picturing Dev doing the Egyptian dance?!
My bad. I know nothing about dancing as you can tell. I’ll call it “dance2″ and it will be next to the
and 
.
I could do. I saw Steve Martin do King Tut LIVE FROM NEW YORK on SNL and have been able to channel him ever since. We all can, those of us who saw him LIVE FROM NEW YORK.
Pefect Cindy!
I’m still trying to picture him polkaing.
Now that Dev I totally believe! You are a man of many talents.
I remember that show, of course I remember all the shows back then. I never missed it. I remember trying to figure out what Andy Kaufman was doing on stage, but I love Steve Martin.
Thanks, Mindy. Are they going to stay in the same spot now?
Yup, unless new ones are added or old ones removed. I had always wondered how they were arranged until I looked at them really closely. Finally, I figured out that there was some order after all.
Mindy I am glad you told me, I was getting frustrated looking for the right one.
Any luck finding a fireworks one? Maybe even an explosion? Blowing things up is a hobby of mine.
I don’t think so, CJ.
I found a few fireworks emoticons but they were too big to fit into ours.
This one may work but it’s not as exciting.
CJ, check this out.
Love that one!
Did you know that when Andy Kaufman died, there were tons of people that thought it was just another one of his bits?
He was a strange and talented guy.
‘Here I come to save the day!’
Awwwww please Dev, just a little one?
Mindy too bad that first one is too big, because it is sooooo perfect. You are fantastic.
I laughed out really loud when I saw it. Perfect, isn’t it? Too bad Dev is against it.
Thank you very much.
Mindy, you know he is just kidding, go ahead add it. Maybe he won’t notice.
Hmm, I distinctly remember him saying something about “no bare bottom” …
I know but dang the word FUSSBUDGET comes to mind… Geeeeessshhh or maybe KILLJOY is more accurate…
We need to find someone to convince him otherwise. Where is Jay when you need her?
Maybe he won’t get it. Just add it, like they say, better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
I don’t want a howler email from him. Besides, he’s not easily convinced by a
face.
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
Don’t do it Mindy, it is definitely not worth it. Kaki be good.
We have our own ways of getting around such rules.
But he might not even read these emails, he hasn’t even been around for an hour or longer. Just give him puppy dog eyes.
No, I won’t add it. CJ, I added this some time ago and I can tell you he wasn’t impressed.
Kaki, he smells mischief miles away. His sixth sense will direct him to those innocuous emails.
Kaki you are trouble personified tonight.
I tell you what how about we just head out to the park across from his place and light off a few fireworks for a bit of fun? I mean we can’t help it if a few bottle rockets head the wrong way, right?
I saw Steve Martin Live from the bleachers at my high school. He was one of our cheer leaders. He didn’t do King Tut then, but he was very, very funny. No, I didn’t know him. He is a couple of years older than me and you know what a gap that was in high school.
By the way if the cops come, I am telling them Dev told us to go to the park.
Hmm.
CJ, I’ve never set off fireworks, aren’t they a little dangerous? I’d rather take my chances using a forbidden emoticon or word. Better my bottom on fire than my body or hands.
Ahhhh Kaki wheres your sense of adventure. I have done it for years, still have all my fingers!
Here I will show you… Now find the fuse, put the bottle rocket in the coke bottle light the fuse… Run like the wind…
See easy peasy!
CJ, setting off fireworks in the park definitely sounds fun. I’ve always wanted to try it.
Did you see the video of the fireworks in San Diego that all went off as once? Yep, they can be dangerous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndVhgq1yHdA&feature=related
Cool and you know I noticed Dev’s window is open tonight. If you lean the bottle just a few degrees to the east, the rocket should head straight for it. Are you ready?
shhhhhhh Lily.
It’s ok kaki, honest! Would I get you in trouble? 
Yes, I saw it. I could feel the disappointment of the people who had been waiting for hours it.
1…2…3…. wheeeww booooom
That a girl, Mindy!! whooooooooooooosh flying over the park across the street headed straight for the window! BULLSEYE!!
uh oh Mindy, do you see what I see?
I think we better
and 
Hey, CJ, you really are good at this. See if you can do it again. Never mind, scoot over lemme try.
I’m
to 
. You carry on, Kaki.
Huh? Hey!
Wait for me. 
Well, girls, I am going to start to get ready for bed. I don’t think Dev is coming back so you can probably set off those M80′s in his bathroom, see if the what happens if you put it in the toilet.
TTFN
Sweet dreams, Kaki. Found this picture at the right time.
LOL thanks kaki I think I will pass, setting his living room on fire is enough for one night.
Have a great night, see ya tomorrow.
Hey Mindy, how about you and I head to the bar for a few drinks? Maybe you can tell me how you got started with this lot?
Sounds good, CJ. I read here for a long time before I had the courage to delurk about one and a half years ago.
Cool I remember the days I was reading this blog, geeez I think it was back to 2008. It was so much fun to read the comments and watch the friendly banter back and forth.
I also remember the butterflies when I wrote my first comment.
Amazing how such a simple thing can get your nerves going.
Glad I did it though. I have met some really great people!
Apart from Dev’s writings, the friendly banter is the most interesting and attractive part of this blog. Makes me smile and keeps me company.
Silly time difference makes it harder for me to be around when you guys are.
Where are you from? I am in South Carolina. A little too close to Dev if you know what I mean. I liked it better when he was out west.
Down Under. Thousands of miles away and fifteen hours ahead.
I was originally from Asia before I moved here. English is not my first language.
Dang girl you write the language much better than I do and I was born here.
Yep I can understand the time difference thing. I say you do a pretty darn good job given that issue.
One of these days I hope to visit, down under. I have been to quite a few countries because of my job, but not lucky enough to go there yet.
But speaking of the time— it is just about midnight here and I need to get to sleep.
I have really enjoyed getting to know more about you.
Hope you have a great one!!
Oh, pish. We have bottle rocket fights and pitch them at each other!
“The Spanking of Ladies”
Sweet dreams, CJ!
I enjoyed chatting with you too. 
I’m here Mindy…whaddya need?
Ooohhh lookit
new toy
LOL yeah I know cindy, but you see it is baby steps with kaki. Don’t worry we will have a full out war with bottle rockets soon enough.
Jay, we need you to convince Dev that we need this new toy.
Why not? Don’t you like it? You laughed out loud at it.
Mindy, after last night do you REALLY think you need to be pushing anymore fireworks, young lady?
Why not!? VVVVV – (arrows point to Professors post) …thats why not. See that face?? It’s aimed at you…I don’t want it aimed at me thank you very much.
Hey Mindy, why don’t you head over this way? Like
I have a great 
.
I’m heading to bed. Night!
Mindy it’s ok, no problem. Ve have our own vays!
Good Night! Sweet Dreams
and 
Awwwww Dev, you know you got a small chuckle out of the antics. Right??
Goodnight, Mindy!
CJ :waits:
Ummmmm Did you want something, Dev?
Dev, the fireworks guy earns his own punishment by getting blown up, so I think he would be an instructional model for the girls to behave—or else! Do you agree? Of course we will be quick to listen to you on this topic, but you might not have considered what a natural deterrent he might be.
Excuse me, Professor, I was wondering if this is like college? Meaning if I don’t get a response in 15 minutes the matter is closed and all is well in the world?
Hi Scarlet! How are you doing today?
No. And i do NOT want you playing with anymore fireworks, young lady.
Scarlet, I have already established the instructional model for the blite, and that is that I teach the lessons.
Forever? But, Sir… Not ever? Not even on special occasions, like 4th of July or New Years?
Dev, Good morning.
I tried to tell them fireworks are dangerous, sir, but they just wouldn’t listen. I’m really sorry about your living room.
Oh MAN!! Are you driving the bus today Scarlet?
ooopppsss meant Lily!
I swear to god if I figure out who is still shooting fireworks in my neighborhood, I’m gonna pitch a fit like you won’t believe! Stinkin things kept me up all hours.
They’s bad enough on the 4th!
It’s OVER. Move ON!
Cindy, sorry about your neighbors! Sounds like you may need a nap. But given your frustration. Is there a different topic specifically you would like to move on to?
Ok given the fact I have no say what-so-ever about this topic. Yes Sir, no fireworks…
and 
No, I’m driving my Blue Angel.
looked and felt more like a greyhound, lily ol’ pal.
CINDY!! Where in tarnation did that girl git to? You and CJ got to explain to me what a bottle rocket is and how to use one.
Hey Kaki, I sent you an email with some pictures and a link. I am kind of banned from
work, subject here. 
You’ve led a pretty sheltered life, haventcha,Kakio? Did you never shoot fireworks as a kid?
I was talking about you guys! You was shooting off fireworks in that park down the street and I called the cops!
Did they come and chase you?
That’s always fun, huh.
I got chased by cops yesterday. It was a blast.
LOL sorry about that Cindy. I was not following your thoughts.
I was kind of trying to escape the wrath of Dev, regarding said
works.
Now what kind of trouble do you have in mind today, my partner in crime?
You ain’t missed much, Mindy. They’re ear splitting. And my dogs HATE them!
WHY are you UP so early?
I’m sorry Mindy. But maybe someday you will be able to, maybe on a visit sometime. We can have fireworks here anytime of the year.
Apparently though I am banned here on the blog, so I totally feel for you.
But that said I am sure there are other things we can do… any ideas?
Just hop in the jeep with me, CJ, trouble will find us!
I am game for that, but how about slowing down enough that I can catch up to you. I mean you don’t have to stop but I can’t run at 80 mph.
Cindy, I can’t sleep.
Thankfully, I did catch up on my sleep on the weekend.
CJ, it’s too early for me to think clearly.
Nope, and I still havn’t shot fireworks.
*sigh* I did live a sheltered life, we wasn’t allowed to do nothin and being the good girl that I am I didn’t.
We weren’t shooting them (me watching, not firing) at your house we were at the park next to Dev’s house. Did you move to Florida and didn’t tell us?
What did you do this time, Cindy. More ignoring road closed ahead signs or no seat belts?
Mindy, they are banned in most cities here, too, which doesn’t always keep people from getting hold of some, then blowing off body parts or starting wildfires.
Have you ever tried that old-fashioned sleep remedy, a glass of milk before bed? The amino acid L-tryptophan in it can make you sleepy.
Mindy! YOu might be able to get rested up from NOT sleeping the week before, but you know good and well that by the time you go to bed tonight, you’re right back in the same boat and you’ll go all week running on half empty.
How long are you going to let this go on?
Oh, I was coming home from the fair grounds where I was helping with clean up yesterday afternoon and rather than take the LOOOONNNNNNGGGGG way around cause they’re replacing a bridge on the highway, I swooped down and through the creek bed (it’s almost completely dry, btw) and up the other side back onto the highway. There were tracks there, so I knew other people were using that method of outwitting the highway department.
Saved myself about 20 minutes!
And yeah, I knew the county cops were following me, probably to see what I was going to do since I turned that way coming out of the fairgrounds. One of them in a 4X4 and bypassed the bridge like I did and the chase was on!
I called Deputy Dan and he called them off and then he yelled at me for awhile. But I asked him how his mama was and he sweetened up some after that.
I can’t wait till Dan is sheriff. Only a few more months to go!
It sure sounded like you were shooting them at my house. Maybe I called the cops on the wrong people! No cops showed up to run you off?
Oh, just get in, for pete’s sakes!
Can’t stop my mind from waking up so early. No trouble getting to sleep but staying asleep is the issue. Tried chamomile tea, melatonin, aromatherapy, counting numbers. I probably need a slow release sleeping tablet but I don’t think there is such a pill.
Only one – Deputy O’Neill.
Mindy, Ambian does come in a slow release form, but I don’t know if it is available in your country. FYI -
http://products.sanofi.us/ambien_cr/ambienCR.html
Sometimes one is enough. What am I saying? When Deputy O’Neill shows up, one is always enough.
That’d do it!
AND you made a phone call while driving! Good thing Deputy Dawg doesn’t come over and paddle you.
Thanks, Lily. I think it’s called Stilnox here. I’ll have to ask my doctor when I see her in a couple of months’ time to get my other scripts.
Nah, him and his pal Cameron are big ole squishy teddy bears.
Ah, so nice to have a Deputy as a friend. You seem to like living on the edge.
Oh, and he’s also fondly known as Professor Cup Cake.
Freedom ain’t free, lady. If we don’t set off fireworks all year round, we can’t scare away the ghost commies.
That’s just basic. It’s in the Constitution.
{snort}
Along with the Right to Arm Bears.
Really? You’re going to live like this for another couple months??
Mindy!
I have a hands free phone and Dan’s on speed dial.
Hi!
I bet you have an armed bear, Cindy.
You took my bear away from me, member?
I’m sure he’d a been armed by now.
Did I? I’m certain I had a very good reason for de-bearing you.
I missed the fireworks, schucks! Ah well we had our own diplay last night from a boat out on the bay, the lights are reflected on the water and the mountains echo the sounds – wonderful.
a beary good reason?
I used to believe that bears should only be armed when part of a well-regulated militia, but then the commies trained all those salmon…
It was like Red Dawn up in that stream.
So whats been happening here, apart from Mindy finding a naughty streak and wayyyyy to many puns than is healthy?
Very cool dd!!
After reviewing Deputy O’Neil’s request with my lawyer, I believe I can supply any and all who want them with
works. I just can’t “play” with them.
So if you are ever in need of some, just holler!
Cindy, your story at the fairgrounds, totally cracks me up. Good thing you have a deputy dog on your side!
Mindy do we have a cupcake emoticon?
I guess this would work 
in a pinch…
You just don’t get no respect, do you, sir? Except from me.
MINDY! You do NOT have to go through life on the edge of exhaustion, so don’t, OK?
I think that this bear was trying to arm herself. I’m not sure if the Constitution permits that.
http://triblive.com/news/2249250-74/bear-grant-mall-sears-store-mills-pittsburgh-minutes-officers-quickly
Lily you are killing me today.
.
Pinko salmon. Very dangerous.
CJ, you make it too easy for other girls to look good next to you.
hmmmm Thank you, Sir?
You know a girls got to do, what a girls got to do.
They can do anything. No, I tell a lie. They come in cans.
That’s just camouflage.
:waits:
I think I saw that earlier today. Did you need something, Dev?
Seriously cool, cj! Plus the brits have just won some mega cycling shenanigan so BBH has been engrossed in that and my carefree Topfree lifestyle has continued apace.
Kaki, if you are just a tad jealous, please recall that London has barely had a summer for the last few years and allow me to luxuriate before returning to the rain.
Dev, are you allowed to roll your eyes? I mean isn’t that one of “ours”?
Sir, if you ever feel the need to have your orders written in such a way that even CJ’s attorney will understand them and not be able to find even the tiniest hint of a loophole, please let me know. My fees are quite reasonable.
I am going to make a REALLY big assumption here, you disagree with my legal interpretation of your request, Sir?
Lily PLEASE stop helping! You are SOOOOOOO killing me today!
Just so you know you are crackin me up too!
Are you going to be able to see any of the olympics? I was able to go to the volleyball games when they were in Atlanta. It was a wonderful experience even if I was 7 months pregnant with my oldest,in the GA heat. At least it was indoors.
I am sure it was spectacular. I have had the pleasure of being across the pond twice now. I can’t wait until I get to visit again!
Thanks all the same, Lilly, but I still and always have the ultimate legal rebuttal – because I said so.
I beg your pardon for overlooking that, sir.
Tony has started saying that lately….I think it’s the most irritating thing in the world.
m
like that actually means anything other than “oh crud i am loosing the argument here better bring out that sentance she hates” 
“Because I said so, thats why” …pfft,
Only one of my comments was, in fact, directed at you. So, I’m thinking that this is applicable:
The wicked flee when no man pursueth… .
– Proverbs 28:1
Sure glad you have not invoked that rebuttal with me, Dev.
I mean that kind of sums it all up. What would I ever be able to say to that?
Jay, I expect Tony has heard YOUR spurious arguments so many times that he might once in a while have to resort to that statement as a short cut. In any case, as a Top he has a moral right to use it.
Well down on the farm we say: A stuck pig squeals…
A shall endeavor to not tread on comments that do not concern me in the future.
CJ, the only thing you can say is, Yes, sir. But you knew that, right?
Don’t take this personally, Lily, because we love you, mean it!
But if you don’t stop sucking up to the Professor to get brownie points, we’s gonna have to hurt you.
Get me?
Yes Sir, I did.
Hey Cindy! How ya doing? Do you have a need for speed? I was wondering if you wanted to take your jeep out again?
Come on, CJ, Let’s go for a ride in the pasture! Buckle that harness tight, cause it’s gonna be a bumpy ride!
We need our smacking emoticon back, Cindy.
Bette, get Ralph out of the back seat and leave him in the goat corral before you go or you’ll make him sick.
No problem Ralph is in with Pollie! They are friends.
If you know what I mean…
Where are we headed? Oh and if we get into trouble my name is Lily.
Can we Baja the creek?
Honey, we is busting through fence! That’s ok, don’t worry, i used to own it.
Creek bed is kind of dry thouhg. It’s way more fun if the water splashes up the sides
Very true.
Should I ask who owns it now?
I am ok as long as it is NOT the owner of this blog. 
Let’s shoot some fireworks when you get back from you drive. It looks like they fixed up the professor’s place pretty good,
you can’t even tell what happen last night. 
No, I DON’T know what you mean. Where is Polly?
As much as this pains me and it really does. I am going to have to pass on the
works tonight. Mainly because I have seen quite a few Top emoticons today and I gave a Yes Sir to not playing with them on the blog. 
But have fun! I did not promise not to watch.
Pollie is one of my fainting goats Kaki! Honest!
Phew! OK, I believe you, I don’t know why I do but I do. A few weeks ago someone tried to put Chuckles in the closet with Connie the cat.
Pollie? for a goat? don’t tell me.
We did not name her, just bought her this year. She was pregnant with a sire named Bentley. So we named her boy Rolls Royce.
Ok, a girl’s gotta learn somehow.
Experience is the best teacher, no offense, Professor, you are too.
Yep, but sometimes his lessons are a bit painful.
Tis Sunday night and I have the Monday work blues… UGH
I hope everyone has a great night and morning!
Mindy, I sure hope you got some sleep.
Goodnight, CJ, I am heading up too.
Mindy, I hope you were able to stay awake, I used to close my eyes in the afternoon for a quick nap. See you in the morning.
Goodnight, CJ. Hello Mindy.
Goodnight, all.
Oh my, I went for a drive on this lovely, warm summer evening, and when I returned, what did I find? An attempt to incriminate me through identity theft. How very unkind. And how very transparent.
I think that I simply must critique this performance, else how will you ever learn?
First, using a different name with your own avatar is not an effective way of assuming a disguise.
Second, it is highly unlikely, in fact, it is beyond belief, to think that the Professor, who has, after all, lived in hot, dry Southern California would ever believe that a woman who has spent the majority of her life watching the devastating effect of wildfires here, and who has legal training to boot, would ever be foolish enough to play with fireworks.
Third, to be really credible, you would have to mimic my distinctive writing style with its long, complex, but grammatically correct, perfectly punctuated sentences in which pronouns are always in agreement and participles are never left dangling.
I hear you, girls. I just hate taking time off for medical appointments. I’ve succumbed and scheduled an appointment in less than two weeks.
Good Morning.
Mindy, glad you have a Drs. appointment. I just hope they find something that works for you. Hope you have a great day.
Cindy, thanks for the ride!
Kaki, have a great day!
Scarlet hope you had a wonderful weekend and week is great also.
Dev, I am sure you will be happy to know that I am heading to work to cause trouble in other parts of the world, instead of your blog.
Have a great day, CJ!
Thanks you too!
Hope your day is full of fun!
My participles are dangling!
Thanks for telling me. 
Using an avatar other than you own would be dishonest and I may be a lot of things but dishonest is not one of them. It’s all in fun,Lily, sorry if you were offended.
CJ, her day will be full of night.
You’re up bright and early, Kaki!
Mindy, I get up every day at 6am, wake up the kid, let the dogs out, try to play a round or two of Words, then back to bed til 7. A little tough getting up when I stay up til almost 1 am, much easier now since it is light out. Also, I don’t sleep that great at night either whether I nap or not.
Kaki, you have dangling participles? Those are my favorite kind of earrings. I almost never wear any other kind.
I hear thunder. Sure wish I had a pool.
Kaki, I’m pretty sure it’s okay unless, say, you try to impersonate Dev. That might get you in trouble.
Don’t I look just like Rhett Butler? I think all you girls should dress yourself in the draperies and then let’s go set off some fireworks!
Really, Dev? Well, you heard him, girls!
Scarlet,
All right, girls, that will be quite enough of that. :waits:
It took me a long time to figure out what Lily was talking about because I read the avatar and not the name on Kaki’s comment so didn’t even notice anything amiss. In any case, knock it off, all of you!
And Cindy, you do NOT threaten bodily harm here, young lady.
Do you understand me?
Have a good day, CJ!
Or even, heaven forbid, a couple girls get together and make someone up. I wonder if that would get them in trouble?
You’re the best, Scarlet.
Come on over to my house, Scarlet. I got me an extra float just for you, maybe Cindy can join us.
I’m on my way!
Yes, sir.
Aye Aye, Cap!
Kaki! Don’t you EVER send me a link like that one to the puppy cam!
I got NOTHING done yesterday, NOTHING!
Did you send it to Scarlet too?
I’m putting my swimsuit on now, is it still storming?
There were always sleeping when I watched. What an awesome program.
I will send her the link but it is your fault if she doesn’t get any work done.
The storm is still brewing.
I did not get a link to a puppy cam, thank heavens! When I’m bored I google all the dog breeds I love and look at the puppies I will someday have. i need very little encouragement to waste more time that way!
Sun’s out here, Kaki! It’s not good swimming weather anymore!
They’re outside right now. They even had a little bit of training this morning.
I want those puppies!
Sorry, but you have it now. There are several cams to choose, click on the puppy. I think I was watching the puffins last when I sent it. I want to go to Maine some day to see the puffins. I went all the way to Alaska and saw one fly by. It was cool, but only one??
I love the sliding board, what a good idea. I took my dog to the park once so she could play on the slide and people gave me dirty looks so I left. My kids were on there too, just thought I mention that.
6 Golden Retriever puppies, Scarlet. And their Mom. They’re a month old.
See you in a few weeks.
The Puffins ARE cool, Kaki! You’re right; they are a mixture of
+ :penguin:
Sometimes you have to sit and wait for them. They don’t sit on that ledge all the time.
are you watching it now? they are all trying to lay under the slide! it’s not cause of the shade, the whole thing is under shade.
It’s a good thing I can’t hear them whine.
Good thing Roman doesn’t have our email address, Cindy. He is going to wonder why Scarlet is in front of the computer with a pint of ice cream and no dinner on the table or clothes washed.
Is that a litter box on the bottom right?
Momma is outside the fence, they are all awake now.
Yeah, they’re being litter box trained. Makes it much easier with service dogs.
Gosh, the puppies are so cute!
hey wheres the link? Geeeessshhh
So Ladies, how were your days today?
I was able to stir a few pots at work… So my day is complete.
CJ, I just sent it.
I got 17 out of 40 on 1st maths test. then 19 out of 40 on the 2nd. I am improving….slowly.
Just ducky. I turned the a/c off in the house a couple days ago and it is sweltering now but I love the windows open. I went in the pool and no sooner I got in the I heard thunder. Cindy, is it ok to be in the pool during thunder or lightning? I am pretty sure it was lightning so you can watch it while you are floating. Did you know this CJ?
Our rule in the pool is thunder ok lightning no go! But that is for the kids.
I am the one that runs out and takes pictures of hail during a tornado. SO what do I know.
Excellent! Thank you. They are adorable.
I ran out to save the kid’s Little Tykes playhouse during a tornado, I thought I was alone.
Good for you Jay!
No way! Of course I still might hear about that on a regular basis.
But it was so COOOOOOL
Great! How many to you have to get correct to pass? Can you practice at home?
I was wondering if it was time to clean up the Professor’s office again? You know with all his writing and working, I bet he hasn’t had a chance to get to that very important chore.
Maybe we should re-decorate while we are working?
Ok I have the cleaning supplies, trash bags, broom, dust pan, vaccuum. Hmmm what am I missing?
Break time let’s see what’s he been doing on this
. Dang he booby trapped it.
Debbie wants me to get more than half correct before she lets me do the exam. Which kinda makes sense i guess.
Yes i can do at home….s’why i havent been here playing with you lot.
Sounds good to me. Keep up the good work, Jay and you will pass with flying colors.
CJ, if you know someone pretty well you can guess their passwords. Now… how well do we know the professor? Hmmm?
Maids1, nope, Maids2, nope, Cameron, nope. Hmmm, he is a little more clever than I thought. Let’s try spanking, nope, Top,
Ispanknaughtygirls BINGO! We’re in CJ!
CJ, you forgot the most important thing, pixie dust. It’ll make cleaning time cut in half.
Kaki you are so right! Pixie dust ta da the cleaning is done. Now for the re-decorating!!
Hmmmmm paint? Glow in the dark? We could paint different sayings on the walls and they would not show up until the light was turned off.
Now what sayings should we use?
You ROCK!!
I got tired of having a boring black computer, so I painted mine with this cool, glittery blue paint. Maybe Dev would like a more distinctive computer, too. There are lots of colors – red, orange, purple, you name it.
http://www.bonanza.com/listings/PATRIOT-BLUE-Metal-Flake-4-oz-Metalflake-Paint-Hobby-Effect/58747101
Very cool color!! I think Dev is partial to red! Great idea, Lily.
“Girls Rule, Tops Drool”?
If we use red, he might be seeing red when he sees the redecorated red computer, and I’m not entirely sure that’s a good thing. What do you say? They do have red paint.
http://www.bonanza.com/listings/RED-HOT-RED-Metal-Flake-4oz-Metalflake-Custom-Paint-008/58749071
If I remember right his car is red. I really do think he likes that color. That paint is so cool!
CJ, think about it. Is there any doubt that Dev likes red? It’s WHAT he likes red that might be the problem, you know?
Yep I know, Lily. But I am thinking no matter what color we paint his computer he will be wanting red-venge.
So it might as well be his favorite color, right?
Did you know that tops spelled backwards is Spot? Maybe we could paint. “See Spot Run?”
CJ, I am pretty good at writing backwards. For some unknown reason when I was a kid I used to like to do that, then hold it up to a mirror.
I like your saying.
Thanks Kaki do you have any ideas? I would hate to leave the re-decoration incomplete.
LOL I was going to have you try “limpnoodlearmwithsofthands”
New paint might make the window treatments and furniture look tired. Cindy and I both sew. New window treatments and draperies. Velvet might be nice because it is so soft. I don’t know about color, though red might be too overpowering, so perhaps a deep midnight blue. But maybe red lame toss pillows. And we both have embroidery machines, so we could put sayings on the pillows. Maybe the same ones as the walls. What do you think?
I like how you think Lily and such hidden talents. The midnight blue is a great choice!
Ok this totally sucks, but I need to get to bed. I sure hope Kaki you and Lily and maybe some of the other ladies can finish the re-decorating. Hopefully before Dev shows up and ruins the surprise.
Thanks for all the help!! Nite Nite
:waits: …
Hi Dev, sure hope you like our small touches to your nice clean office?
Sorry I have to go to bed now.
Sir, I want you to know that I had your best interests in mind when I was planning the redecorating. The way I see it, if I didn’t misbehave from time to time, it might cause a giant shift in your world view because you would suddenly realize that perhaps not all girls are naughty. I fear what that might to to your psyche, so I just could not let it happen.
It wasn’t what I had looked forward to, no. Goodnight, Kaki.
Yeah right.
Tell me that wasn’t one of the better lame excuses you’ve ever heard, sir.
That was CJ, Dev. I think Kakio’s hiding behind the sofa over there.
Um,
OK, goodnight, Dev, but don’t you think you should say hello to me first? Are you going to bed or do I now have a bedtime? 
I mean we havn’t talked all day, well,except for the “stop it now” this morning but I don’t count that. 
I’ve seen lots of variations on that theme. And I’ve only been here a few months.
People come up with really creative excuses around here.
Jinx! You owe me a COKE, Kaki!
I thought you were a Pepsi girl, I’ll pay up tomorrow. No Coke for you this late at night.
I really, really like that ‘Girls rule, Tops drool’ saying that CJ came up wiht earlier. In fact, the needlepoint pillow has already been drawn out.
By, ‘coke’, I meant Pepsi of course. It’s a catch all phrase. Like Kleenex or pop!
Thank you, Cindy. I work on mine at night when it’s quiet. I get the best ideas. I keep them filed by crime, I mean, adventure.
And alphabetically under those catagories or do you utilize sub-catagories?
Hoo boy! Tireder than I thought. Goodnight, CJ. Kaki, I’m not sure either of us should be up this late, quite frankly.
Where did he go? He’s not responding to our jib jabs.
Where do you suppose he got to?
Helloooooo, Dev, are you still there?
I’ll never know if that was my goodnight or CJ’s.
Well, as Cindy said, Lily, it was not entirely original, no, but you do get credit for trying.
Well apparently you shouldn’t. I think your curfew/bedtime needs to be 10:00 p.m. Do you need someone to help enforce it?
Probably getting some raisins and ice cream for his dinner.
Tell you what, Kaki, instead I’ll enforce one for you, young lady, say about 8 o’clock, 8:30 on weekends, if you keep up that smart aleckiness.
:waits: ….
Cindy, with all the capers I’ve been involved in there are sub-sub categories for this sub.
You should think about that the next time you feel like getting smart alecky with me then, hadn’t you? :waits:
Yes, Sir.
Sorry, I may have put my little pinky toe over the line.
That’s better, and you are forgiven.
And you are forgiven for thinking that I was part of the redecorating tonight.
Thank you for that, sir.
I’m going to go watch McClintock! for the first time in years. That should keep me out of trouble for a while.
{he doesn’t care if it’s dark or not, kaki. if he says Go To Bed, you by god Go To Bed!}
Cindy, you have no idea how many times I’ve actually turned my computer and went to bed after getting one of those. I think the time I stayed up with you afterwards was the only time I didn’t. I wish people listen to me like that.
Kaki, revising history, are you?
Lily, technically I didn’t do anything. I merely suggested pixie dust to CJ, said I liked her slogan, and said I could write backwards. I never actually did any of those deeds, because as everyone knows I am an
, not to mention a five time winner of the “Best Girl on the Blite” award. 
Goodnight, everyone.
It’s just about tomorrow. 
Goodnight, Kaki, for real this time.
And goodnight to everyone else.
Kaki, oh, of course. Inciting to decorate isn’t the same as actually decorating.
Movie time!
Good night, Dev.
Night, kakio! See you tomorrow!
the puppies are all asleep too!
Mindy, I come to realize that we are not able to show our obsequiousness enough.
You haven’t run across an emoticon that can curtsey, have you? The cute little
guy is great, but there’s nothing like a good, deep curtsey.
I think that would show Dev the proper respect, don’t you?
Do you like this gal
?
Cindy, you do have wonderful ideas. Curtseys are so beautifully feminine, too.
Mindy, I think she is darling.
I’m glad that you will be seeing your doctor pretty soon. I know I was kinda pushy about it, but I know what it is like to be really tired all the time. Life is much more beautiful when you are rested.
Enjoy your evening. It’s nearly 1 AM here, so I must bid you adieu.
Good night, Lily.
Good Morning Everyone!
Sorry I had to slip away to bed, but the alarm goes off kind of early around here. Besides it allowed Kaki and Lily to “discuss things” with Dev.
Kaki with a bed 
hmmmmmm 
Apparently all of that creativity was too much for the ol’ Professor. He was quite tired.
I hope you all have a wonderful day! Mindy may you enjoy your night! OH and I love
She is cute!
Mindy, I love the little
. Cindy, guess who she reminds me of with her pigtails. 
Thanks alot, CJ.
I came over to see how you and Lily were making out only to getting this close to a freakin 8:00 bedtime. 
Ok, there may have been some comments said to lead up to that, but that part is kind of fuzzy. 
THE PUPPIES ARE UP AND PLAYING!!!!
They are so CUTE! Did you see them feeding? Poor Holly have to stand so still while six of them drink to their hearts’ content.
If I exceed my data downloads this month, I’ll know whom to blame.
I missed it! I was watching the Common Tern, and now they’re sleeping again.
Hahahahaha They’re awake now and they’re playing to beat the band.
I love how they’ll be playing and they’ll take a tumble and just not get up again cause they’ve fallen asleep.
Oh, Mindy, the Curtsy girl is PERFECT! Thank you!
I switch back and forth between the puppies and the grizzly bears in alaska!
I finally caught them awake–sort of! They look like little butterballs with feet. They are adorable!
By contrast, watching the Redwood forest is somewhat less engaging.
Mindy, the curtsy girl is perfect! And she does look like you know who!
Kaki,
reminds me of Cindy, too.
^
If Dev gives you an 8:00 bedtime, just set your clock for Pacific time. Good thing he can’t read this so he won’t think to be specific on what time zone he means. 
^
Dev, when you chose the picture for this post, did you remember that Patrick Wayne’s character was named “Devlin”?
In fact I did not think about that, though I knew it, and I also can still hear the big
in the Duke’s voice when he says the name.
I am not sure why but for some reason I feel compelled to go :waits:
Did you see what a mess they made earlier? Toys all over the place, paper shredded. It looked like a cyclone had blown through. It’s sure obvious they’re getting their teeth!
Dev, I’m not sure why either. Perhaps a psychic flash? Male intuition? Something triggering your inborn brat alert system? Um, nothing new has shown up on that list you keep, has it?
Lily, if you want to follow the puppies, here is the link. There are a few web cams, I like to watch the puffins and the fish. The fish are in an aquarium so it isn’t the same as the wild stuff.
http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/service-puppy-cam
I’m sure the reason is in there somewhere, Lily.
Lookit!
Mindy comes up with the best stuff. I wonder what else Dev was holding back on us all this time. 
Thanks, Kaki. Golden Retrievers have been my favorite breed forever. Even sleeping, they are just adorable. I can almost smell the puppy smell.
Puppies are up and feeding again.
You are welcome, Lily. I used to have one, she was the sweetest dog. My sister has two, she had three at one time, one was older. They are so cute.
Dagnabbit!!
I missed them feeding again. Dev, just so you know I am using great self control not using a bad word here. 
Just so you know.
My dog must be having a good dream, she is breathing hard and her tail is wagging, probably chasing rabbits.
Dev, does that mean we get to shoot you with a starter pistol?
Wow what a long tough day!
How about yours?
I think I will go watch some puppies…
Devlin did, because “Stephanie Powers” character claimed he had impugned her honor. So do we get to?
Of course that was right before Devlin spanks her. So on second thought, forget that I asked…
Molly said this morning or yesterday that she would try for some sound at dinner. 7-ish Eastern. About 10 minutes from now.
Yeah, I think that WOULD be best forgot! The very idea!
Hi Cindy!
Coming in totally confused about previous happenings, and completely bemused by the number of pervertibles a totally respecable villa in a hot climate can come up with, especially if a Top decides to investigate the garage (my fault, looking for clothes pegs, as one does).
Not sure where the puppies enterred in, but having grown up with a springer/retriever cross, they sound adorable, so send them over!
Jay, if you need help with the maths, please e-mail me.
Hi dd! Sounds like you are having fun!
kaki I love it when their legs start running too!
Yup, CJ, sure, on the day the jnrs were away, my minor irritation with the lack of pegs to hang out their myriad of cllothes resulted in a happy Top emerging from the garage weilding several implements, including a bamboo cane, which almost instantly broke
such a shame 
Hey, ho,I then made the mistake of buying a flexi ruler for younger jnr’s homework, as she’d forgotten to bring one. I have completely ignored the fly swats in the shape of a hand, which seem to be ubiquious over here, and hope that BBH’s dislike of shopping means he misses them too!
Oh now the fly swatters OMG I hate those things. The sting absolutely drives me crazy! So for your sake I hope BBH continues to stay ignorant of such things.
Hi, dd.
here is the link.
http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/service-puppy-cam
dd, after all the reports of flexirulers you actually went out and bought one?
Maybe the sun has had an effect on you.
Yup, it was such a shame that cane broke
how will we survive the holiday without it? 
Sadly, jnr needed a full length ruler, but maybe that could double up for the mosi swatter?!
dd
I can see you are totally heart broken over losing such a wonderful implement. 
CJ, we’ve never used a flyswatter, at least I don’t recall using one. I don’t want to either, I think I will toss the ones we have before somebody gets any ideas. He seems to be pretty creative lately although the miniblind wands(sticks) are his favorite. But not mine.
Kaki, as I am on extremely limited data retrieval over here, due to ridiculous network costs, I am assuming your link is to do with puppies ad not nasty canes, or indeed rulers. Flexi-rulers are ubiquitous over her, what that says about them, I can’t say.
Yeah I read those comments. I think you got off lucky. The Ol’ Professor was either tired or feeling uncharacteristically generous.
I am not sure the world could handle you getting that much sleep. Just think of the chaos you could manage.
CJ, my day has been fine, warm and lovely.
Have you no sense asking Dev if you could shoot him?!
^You know, I think Kaki is right. He can’t really read what you put inside these symbols even if he does get a feeling that something is amiss. So, when are we going to stage our race? The Mustang is getting tired of going slow.^
Yes, its a puppy cam of six golden retriever puppies born the end of June. They just had their nails done. When you get home pull up the link, they are so cute playing.
I havn’t seen flexirulers around here, I looked once but that was a long time ago. They may have them out now for back to school.
OMG miniblind wands!!
CJ, both my dogs bark in their sleep. The one does it sometimes for five or ten minutes off and on and her cheeks puff out. I think she is chasing something.
Kaki, i have a limited amount of sympathy for you with the blind sticks, given your absolute delight about teasing me over a certain Top’s use of the cane. Charley only has to introduce corner time and enforce bed time….
Don’t fret, I’ll send you one!
CJ, the marks they leave look just like the ones that canes leave, at least on the pictures I’ve seen. I read on a dd site that they were one of the recommended “quiet” implements that can be used while away from home. Quiet!
Heck, I bet you could have heard me all the way to your house. 
Bed time may be a little more agreeable.
Hey Lily I am game now!
I am sure Dev is still in shock about us agreeing on something, so he is probably still lying down.
Wait a minute,
I don’t remember ever taking delight over BBH’s use of a cane. I asked you to keep them over on your side of the pond. I may have alluded that girls over there are naughtier and that is why there are canes over there. We have more mini blinds. 
dd WOW you have Kaki speechless!!
the puppies are nursing!
cool be back in a bit…
Kaki the one in the pink collar reminds me of you!
I didn’t notice what did she do?
I just saw Holly go over and eat the puppy’s poo. Yuck! So glad I am not a dog, although I may have been called an itch with a bee. hah! Dev, you thought I was gonna say something it didntcha?
One of them is napping in the litter box. Aw!
Hey I don’t think youz suppose to use that one, kaki!
She just gets up and goes and attacks the other ones.
They are cute! Should we pick one out and call him, Dev?
CJ, do you know I almost got an 8:00 bedtime last night? I would have been in bed for a half hour already. Funny thing, I only suggested helping him with a 10:00 bedtime so he could be refreshed in the morning and you offered to shoot him and nothin.
Tops, go figure. 
Poor Holly was trying to eat and they were all after her trying to nurse. I remember those days well.
I think there is one with a blue collar, that one should be a boy. We can call that one Little Dev.
Kaki, it’s all in the approach, you know the delivery.
And maybe the timing? You did notice I slipped off to bed before he could launch into a lecture towards me. So my friend I believe you may have gotten what was intended for me. I guess I owe you a thank you!
You know I left you a comment up above about your bed time. I think the world would not be able to manage the chaos you would create if you got that much sleep.
Cool do you think all the girls could gang up on him too?
Probably he is sipping some Glenlivet to get over the shock.
^OK, there is a flood control channel about a mile from where I live. In other parts of the world, it would be a river, but here it is a concrete lined channel. There hasn’t been any rain in months, so no chance of flash floods. It is mostly straight. There’s nothing to hit but the walls (and each other), so we really don’t have to worry about hurting anyone else. Sound good?
Mindy can probably find us a race car because she’s the best.^
ok Excellent So if we can get Kaki to drop the flag for us. What is the course mile down and mile back?
Funy, CJ, really funny.
Kaki, i suspect if you were given an 8pm bedtime, you’d be out by 10 pm raring to go!
I would say those mini blind sticks are nada, but it is all in the intensity! Have never been spanked with a flexi rule, but the only time I really cried was with a mini one. I suspect that says more about the time and place than the implement, and CT was not involved!
Sorry but
Really honest I should not of said that 
, but you know I just can’t help myself. 
I wonder where Cindy
is? I hope she didn’t try and out race the cops or go bust through the gate again. She’s gonna git in trouble. 
I wonder if they spank girls that don’t wear their seat belts.
Lily, are cops allowed to spank? I remember their was a cop that gave kids an option of getting spanked
or a ticket. I don’t know how long that went on. I bet it is still allowed if you look in the some of the old laws.
Hey Kaki, lily and I need you to drop the flag for our race. Please?
dd, you have a point there.
He said the bedtime would be 8:00 pm it wouldn’t be my fault if I woke up a couple hours later. Hmmm.
Kaki, you have been reading too many stories,
Sure, I’ve never done it before but I’m game.
Ladies, start your engines.
Lily I think we need a new spot to start our Race! Kaki is going to drop the flag.
Are you ready? The mini is varooooming as we talk!
As for the required trash talk: Sure hope you have your depends on, cause here we go!!
Actually the cop thing was real, it was quite a few years ago. There also was a story back when my daughter was in school-around age nine. A teacher was spanking the children after school. I asked my daughter what she would do if a teacher tried to spank her and she asked me, what did they tell you? Not the answer I expected.
Kaki, I never said you had a bedtime at all, but that you must keep in mind that I can give you one.
And CJ, you do NOT get away with redecorating my office and blaming Kaki, young lady. I do not allow that. Ever.
But if you want to call one of the little doggies Dev I have no problem with that. They are quite wonderful to watch, aren’t they?
We can go as long as we want because it is actually the LA River and it goes all the way to the Pacific, maybe 20 miles on? Of course, if we just do a mile down and back, we can be out of there before the guys in the blue uniforms driving black and whites get there, so that would be good.
Hey, Kaki, are you on board with this?
You know that I do not condone or encourage hitting children, right? Ever. Of course you did.
But Sir, I did not say she did the re-decorating. I meant that because I went to bed she kind of took the lecture from you, for what I did. Thats why I thanked her.
I definitely did not blame her for what I did, Sir. No Sir I take full responsibilty for that.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
…….. :waits:
Hi, Dev. I know I didn’t get a bedtime, I was just looking for loopholes in case I ever get one either from you or the big guy at home.
I know, how about that CJ trying to blame me and then having the nerve to try and shoot you. If you decided to spank her, well, I wouldn’t blame you. You know some girls don’t learn any other way. (she may be one of them)
Hold that thought, I gotta call Scarlet, make the popcorn, set up the chair. Where the heck is Cindy. I don’t think she’s ever been a spectator for a spanking.
Dang, what did I do now?
OH man I am so dead!!
Uh huh. All right, young lady, but watch the laughter at the other girls’ expense. I know you sort of apologized for her taking your licks, but there was a lot of laughter as well I see.
Of course, that teacher got fired maybe arrested too long ago to remember. I just remember my daughter’s answer. I thought, what the heck kind of answer was that. Oh, and I explained that teachers don’t have the right, yadda yadda.
I bet he wanted to drop the flag.
Yes, Sir.
Well, let’s see … illegalities too numerous to mention, incipient damage to automobiles … shall I go on? :waits:
So are you going to spank her or what? I just melted the butter for the popcorn. If you are deciding what implements
you are goig to use that’s great cause I gotta get the drinks ready. So much to do, we havn’t had a spanking here in a long time. I am so glad CJ came back. I love you CJ. 
CINDY, HURRY!
Yeah right! Oh and btw thanks for driving the
up there. geeeeessshhh
Dev, you can add that to the list of her possible spanking offences above.
But, Dev we haven’t even done anything yet.
I guess the better answer would be… No, Sir
or
You are welcome.
kaki you got to stop helping me. I think I have dug a big enough hole by myself that I can be burried.
excuse me, I got so excited I spelled offenses wrong.
Are you sure, CJ? I don’t mind helping you at all. Just let me know if there is any more I can do.
kaki!
The Blue Angel is ready, but I guess the race is off, huh?
Gee, Sir, your brat alert system is working especially well today.
Sir, there aren’t THAT many illegalities. Just trespassing for going into the flood control channel. They might try to cite us for exhibition of speed, but that law really only applies to races held on highways.
Of course, the best deterrent is thinking about how very angry you would be if we ever did anything close to this in real life. That’s really scarier than anything the courts could do.
“Of course, the best deterrent is thinking about how very angry you would be if we ever did anything close to this in real life. That’s really scarier than anything the courts could do.”
Lily truer words have never been written.
Keep running, my friend. Unfortunately I seem to be in the “sights” of a certain Professor, that seems to not be pleased at this moment.
Ya know, CJ, I am beginning to think you aren’t going to get that spanking.
I am so happy for you, you squeaked by again.
Ok, so you ready to race? Vrroooommmm
Thanks, CJ, but I started this so you shouldn’t have to finish it alone.
Hmmmm I think I lost my racing partner for the night Kaki. Besides I do not believe I should push my luck any further tonight.
It does kind of make me nervous, when he disappears like that.
I mean you just never know when he will pop back.
Thanks Lily! Now where is he? The waiting is always the worst!
CJ, I know how to make him pop up, just say a bad word. The badder the faster he shows. Go ahead try it. It used to work, haven’t tried it for a while. Like the commercial says, just do it.
Lauraj love your enthusiasm. We may have to postpone though. A certain someone is lurking around.
Sure thing, Kaki.
CJ, we should really let her drop the flag after all the help she has been, bringing the bus and all. Since I’m not Kaki’s lawyer, I’m under no obligation to tell her that aiding and abetting a speed contest is illegal, right?
You are so killing me tonight!! You don’t think I am in enough trouble already?
Lauraj, if you think you are going to leave me alone in the woods and graveyard alone at midnight
with nothing but a stinking flag 
for protection you are crazier than me. 
Tomorrow morning, we’ll do breakfast afterwards.
Postpone, nothing. Cancel entirely. I think that he has had his brat detector upgraded to the latest model.
Well what is the saying “in for a penny in for a pound”?
Do you want to go for it, tonight? I mean what do we have to lose?
I guess that answers my question from above.
Somehow I don’t think I got my point across. NO RACING CARS ON THE STREETS OR THE RIVER COURSES! HMPH!
CJ, finishing the bottle of Glenlivet?
Sir, was my implied apology sufficient, or should I write it out, laminate it, and have it framed? Sir? Are you there, sir?
I am so sorry, officer. I was just standing out here,lost and scared and alone when I saw these two cars. I wanted to get their attention, hoping that one of these lovely ladies would help me so I waved my scarf. Gosh, if I knew they were racing I would never have tried to wave to them. Honest.
I take it the “because I said so” is implied?
Yep.
Dev, stop teasing me, does this mean CJ’s spanking is on or off? The popcorn is getting cold.
Oh, thats what you meant? Yep I believe that clears up the whole situation. Sure does for me, how about you lily, lauraj and kaki?
Kaki, there is something you should know about LAPD officers. They aren’t gullible. But they can’t spank you, either, so there is that.
CJ, you know what is really scary? Dev says he doesn’t spank when he is angry, he waits to calm down.
You ALL need a spanking, and that popcorn can just cool on the sidelines, you had better believe it! The very idea, racing around and zipping throughout this and that. I am not having this, girls, so you had better settle down or there will be quite a few of you sitting on very sore hineys the rest of the night, I’m not even kidding. Hmph!
Sir! Yes, sir!
Worrisome point, Lily. He seems to be a bit on the angry side right now, if the CAPS are any indication.
Maybe we should sit down and play some cards or something. Just be really quiet.
What do you think?
Nice try, Lily, trying to get my hopes up but I doubt it. I bet even if I suggested he spank you too since after all, it was your idea.
Hmmm, maybe if he thought he got to spank 
TWO girls and not just one…. 
I have to get ready just in case, there are implements to set out 
, refreshments for the Professor 
and ice for his hand and arm, lotion to rub his neck and shoulders. So much to do, where the heck is Scarlet and Cindy. I need help with all this. Boy, if he doesn’t come through…. 
I gotta run,
Better.
Yes, Sir.
Sorry, Sir.
I was just thinking that it might be time for me to go to bed?
Good Night everyone.
When you say girls,
are you referring to CJ, Lily, and Laura? Because technically I didn’t do anything. 
I drive a Honda Civic Hybrid, it’s not bred to race.
just saying.
Goodnight, CJ! And for the rest of you, I have my eye on all you lot. Kaki, you have been known to aid and abet so you are not off the hook, young lady. Laura, it is good to see you but you do NOT want to get your bottom in the middle of this mess, I assure you. Lily, you definitely need to settle down.
Dev, I was just helping, I’m a good helper.
You know if you wanted to spank those girls I would’ve helped you. Not with the spanking of course, but handing you a drink and wiping the perspiratio from your brow, rubbing some BioFreeze or whatever on your shoulder.
I guess I’ll put the chairs away and put the popcorn outside for the birds. *again*
Goodnight, CJ.
We’s racing?
Oh, I am so in. Except we’re racing in the back pasture. Nothing to stop us there. Well, there’s some fence and dry creek beds, but still.
Ok, tomorrow night. My place. Bring your pink slips. None of this, I’ll pay you later BS.
So, what else did I miss?
Where did everybody go?
Yes, sir, I do understand. I am very sorry.
I was way out of line. Please forgive me.
I’m going to go sit quietly and read for the rest of the evening. Does it help that I’ll be reading one of your books, sir?
Good night, sir.
Did I miss a spanking? Aw jeeez, the one night I’m gone. kaki, you’re supposed to come get me when this happens!
So, who’s got a hot bottom?
I think there is a lot of mea culpaing going on, which is as should be And my books do make good bedtime reading, even if it’s way early o’clock. And CIndy we do NOT need any cross pasture racing either. Because I said so, that’s why.
Oh, brother.
Dev, you owe me a drink.
CINDY!!! Where were you?? I was calling you and calling you. Nope, no spankings, nada, zip, notaone. Maybe if YOU were here there would have been. I was trying to get you a sit on the chairs instead of over the chair for a change.
Funny, just yesterday you didn’t think 8:00 was too early.
Cindy, you must have been at the pool hall tonight. You missed getting in trouble!
I was watching the cutest dog tricks on America’s Got Talent…it really made me want to try to teach my dogs SOMETHING. When I tell the Chihuahua to sit, he lies down.
Night everybody.
I’m home! What have I missed?
Kaki, you won’t be alone in the graveyard and woods cuz there are plenty of deer, possums, racoons, groundhogs, feral cats, coyotes, foxes, bunnies and squirrels—plus the odd ghost or two or three!
Girls, guess what I found.
Good Morning! Sure hope everything is going well for everyone.
Nothing like a good nights sleep, to refresh a body and get you ready to face the days challenges.
I for one was quite happy that there were NO spankings delivered regarding last nights activities, even if some adventures were only talked about but never realized.
I still have the bus tire tracks on my body where Kaki rushed to “help” me. Thanks, kaki.
Now I know I should be very good today, just sit and drink tea while darning socks. Yep thats what I should do… Anyone want to guess that is what is going to happen?
Dev, I was wondering if I could bank a few, Yes Sir’s and Sorry Sir’s for future use?
Sure hope you all have a wonderful day/morning/night!
Mindy very cool! May I ask for a checkerd flag too?
You are a genius at emoticons.
Oh and HI!! missed you last night!!
Ok I must use this!!
So COOL! THANKS MINDY 
LOL you know Scarlet your chihauhua probably thinks “I am so close to the floor, why not relax all the way?”
like this one too!
Not much, the party was stopped before it really got a head of steam. Apparently the head of steam came from FL.
That is Dev’s old firebird with a girl driving it.
:flag:
Now were cooking! YOU are the bestest!!!
My new hero
Boy I sure wish we could try them out. Especially before “you know who” wakes up.
Whatcha think?
You go girl!!
Great idea! We need Kaki to flag us off.
The puppies are awake.
I am sure she would be happy to start the race. After all she was ready last night!
Now where is she? :flag:
LOL love those puppies. Did you see we named the one with the blue collar, Dev and the pink collar kaki?
You know what, I live in NASCAR country, I bet we could sneak into one of the local tracks and have our race.
That way we would be racing at a place that was built for racing. Than Dev can’t be mad at us, right?
Since you did all the work you get to pick the car you will be racing. Which one do you want?
Yes and kaki is very naughty. She is constantly “attacking” her siblings.
I like the firebird
Yep thats why I chose that one for her. Kind of like our “kaki”.
OK, sister, outta my way.
Cool I will take the
We might have to do this on our own. Since Kaki is still getting her beauty sleep, and I need to get to work soon.
Plus if we don’t, we may just get that
coming our way. 
OK, ladies, start your engines
GO!
:flag:
EXCELLENT ok Mindy are you ready our flag dropper is here!!
I am taking the first corner out in front! We are you Mindy?
All set!
:flag:
shoot— Where are you Mindy?
I am heading in to the back stretch…
Just right behind you!
:flag:
Go, Mindy, I dropped the flag. HURRY!
Boy, you’re fast.
look up above, Mindy…
That CJ has a lead foot!
How many do you want to make?
I am in the 4th turn… hitting the home stretch and gaining speed. AHhhhhhh the need of speed!!
I don’t know. I’ll just try to keep up with CJ.
Mindy, be careful, that CJ is a woman on a mission.
Wow, can you hear that car go? Zooooom We’re on our fifth turn.
UH OH ladies we seem to have company heading our way. Ones with the flashing lights and sirens. Mindy can you pick up kaki? Than follow me out of the track. I know a great place for us to hide until things cool down.
It sure looks like she does this for a living. Look at her go.
Kaki, quick get in. We need to get outta here.
Floor it!
Mindy I hope you have kaki. I have a friend with a garage down the road. We can hide there until all the excitement is over.
Let’s go, go, go.
CJ, are we safe here?
Yes, she’s with me. Fingers crossed, we won’t be discovered.
We made it!! They just passed us speeding on…