Spring in Scepterd Glen

Just as it is in real life, Spring is a welcome time in Second Life. The bare trees are gone, and the greening of the sim casts a warm glow. It was a good time for Marilyn, Mookie and I to ride around the realm on horseback and take in the beauty of it. With warm sun, deep blue skys and some nice puffy spring clouds surrounding us like a warm blanket, we rode posed for this photo across the glen.

April Update

April 2009 Update

Friends have been on my case because I haven't updated my blog in many months. The truth of the matter is, I have been rather busy. So here is a recap of the past few months!

January 2009
In January I married Marilyn again. I had a difficult time making the decision to leave Patio, but she was travelling a lot and I saw very little of her. We had talked about this in the past, so the breakup was not unanticipated. We remain friends, just not married to each other.

I married Marilyn for many reasons. The simple most reason is that I love her and she is always with me. She makes me happy. Many people do not understand this, but what can I say? I see things in her that no one else can see.

March 2009
In March I was not in SL very much as I took a trip in RL to look for a new home. I will move from California, where I have lived over half my life, and move back to the east coast to be closer to family and friends. I was glad to have some access, though bandwidth limited, to SL and Marilyn and I kept in touch.

April 2009
Marilyn and I have struggled for a while about having a family. Long time friends will recall I had a (prim) baby over two years ago named Astral. This time however, I opened my mind to the idea of adopting a child avatar.

I was never really that keen on the idea, but after seeing the children of other friends I decided to entertain the idea. After some research, I learned there were "adoption" agencies in Second Life. What I liked about the process was that security for both potential parents and potential children was good. The system allows you to register your name and profile, and then the child is able to select you if they feel it might be a good match. If there is a match, the parents and child undergo a trial period.

In our case we were blessed with Mookie - a beautiful little girl who is now our Princess. We felt comfortable with her, and she with us.

April 2009
Having a new little princess in the castle required many changes! We found that the existing version of Coventhegn Castle was too dark and had insufficient rooms. So we have a new castle that has more rooms and larger rooms, and gives us more freedom to entertain. We also created a nice playground garden for Mookie.

Star Reborn

It's been a while since I posted - mostly I've been a frantic builder! I guess I should talk about the fact that I've sold Scepterd Star to Marilyn.

Star was a wonderful sim, but it was my first, and my first home. Since then Forest and Glen were born and each I felt was more lovely. I've lived on Glen for a long time now and rarely even visited Star. On the other hand, it was important to me - Marilyn and I lived there when we were first married - she was there when I bought it, terraformed it and built on it. Our first home was there.

Now it is here sim and I am happy it is in such loving hands. Not only because we still love each other, but because she loves Star. She has a beautiful manor house there, and has preserved my vision of a beautiful open space to wander, ride horses and generally enjoy Second Life. It remains connected to Forest and Glen, and is part of the greater Scepterd Realm.

Thank you Marilyn! Star embraces you in her arms! I love you!

Marilyn Breguet

There are a few things I haven't mentioned in my blog - usually because things get busy and I forget to set aside time to write. One in particular slipped by because I didn't have much time to write in the short time leading up to or after it. It was about Marilyn Breguet, my love and first wife.

Marilyn was a woman I met, fell in love with and for a brief time was married to. It was a brief marriage - we truly did not understand each other, we had language difficulties. The marriage fell apart quickly.

Remarkably we remained friends and our love for each other never faded. We still love each other dearly, and we love to be with each other. There are not many people who understand this, but some do, and we do.

I do not ever expect everyone to understand how I feel about Marilyn - even she does not always understand how I feel. However she is a wonderful woman whom I love to spend time with. She is in my heart and will always be.

So rather than put off the story of the wedding, which was never blogged, it is best to introduce her as someone I love very much.