I finally harvested the wheat and other tales

Yes, that’s right, I finally harvested the wheat. It’s been drying for about two weeks and tomorrow I’ll thresh and winnow it and let you know how much grain I was actually able to harvest. Hopefully I got back at least the same amount I planted.

TreeSap and I did not go to the event she saw because the kids were up until 0200 the night before and she told them she wasn’t dealing with their tired, cranky selves all day so we skipped it. We did have a good time in Pigeon Forge though. It does sort of remind me of the main strip in Panama City Beach, FL but with better traffic control and fewer drunken college students. We made a side trip to Gatlinburg and didn’t even park. It was like Helen, GA during Oktoberfest but x1000 with the traffic. The trip was fun though. We went to her favorite steak house and it was really good. Disney World level good. I’m talking one of the nice places like The Coral Reef , not one of the lower-end table service places. We had our first kiss on this trip and had sex for the first time, both of which were good. We’ll have to work on the sex part, we’re both out of practice (several years on both our parts, though more for me) and there were leg and back cramps for everyone.

We had some relationship discussions as well. Turns out she’s had more than one relationship end badly, and she has a bit of baggage. It’s no big deal, I do too, but she seems hesitant sometimes. Apparently her last relationship was, at least according to her, straight out of Fifty Shades of Grey, and I don’t know how well I’m going to fair being the dude that comes after Christian, but I’m going to make a go of it all the same. I’ll have to watch the movies now I suppose. I’ll also have to buy some tantric massage BD’s or DVD’s and study those. And she needs new handcuffs, hers are too small for her wrists now, so they’re for sure too small for mine.

She stayed the night last night since the kids were still out of town, that was fun. We have some normal new relationship communication issues, but we’ll work through them. She got frustrated with me because every time she’d put my hand on her breast while we were in bed I’d start playing with it, but she just likes the feel of her boyfriend’s hand there while she sleeps, it’s like a security blanket. After she told me that (because apparently I was just supposed to know) we both slept better. I did get briefly kicked out of bed by accident. We both favor the right side of the bed (as you lay in it) and as we were sleeping she’d snuggle against me, I’d snuggle back and get shunned (like I said, we’ve got signaling issues) and scoot back, only to have her snuggle back up a few minutes later and the cycle repeated itself until I was out of room. I moved to K’s room for a few hours until TreeSap woke up and asked me what the hell I was doing in another bed. We worked it out though.

She’s very skittish about all this, but we’re working through it. I think she trusts me on a conscious level, but her sub-conscious is giving her fits of doubt. We’ll work through it. I’ve repeatedly assured her that she can trust me and I will not intentionally hurt her; any hurt that arises will be the result of a misunderstanding. There are some things that she wants to try later on, but she says I’m not ready and I have to work my way up to those, like a video game. I asked her where I was so I knew how far I had to go and apparently I’m still at the “killing rats in the basement for the innkeeper” stage of the game. This is going to take a while.

That’s about all the detail I’m going to go into on that subject. This isn’t an adults only diary and I don’t want to find myself “performing” for my readers, so to speak. Suffice to say the relationship is going well, and there will almost certainly be more random sleep-overs in our future.