OT,
My house is on top of a hill. The nearest anyone can get without alarming the dogs is 1/4 mile.
I'm a licensed gun owner. If they come I'll know how to welcome them.
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05-01-2013, 04:30 PM
OT, My house is on top of a hill. The nearest anyone can get without alarming the dogs is 1/4 mile. I'm a licensed gun owner. If they come I'll know how to welcome them.
05-01-2013, 04:40 PM
Perfect !!!!
05-01-2013, 07:29 PM
I'm sorry but could someone please correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the use of the word "yaad" loosely mean "home"?? ( a Jamaican may say " going to mi yaad" and we would say "going home") that is what I have always thought, and don't know about others, but for me, this has changed with each place that I have lived, whether it has been my born country or any of the ones that I have lived in. "home" or "yaad" is as unique to the person staying there I would imagine.... Love the post Macy!!!!!
05-01-2013, 08:53 PM
Really sorry to hear about your friend. This is a very small minded jealous thread.
05-01-2013, 10:00 PM
Sorry about your loss RG...This world is tough to be in sometimes. OT-You are absolutely correct. WHen I originally responded I had this longer response typed about crime and the almost NECESSITY to protect yourself...and I decided to just delete it. There is ALOT of crime;most of it not making the airwaves nonetheless to the police station.
05-02-2013, 02:38 AM
If you knew why this thread /post was in place for the first time, you'd understand it has nothing to do with jealousy,etc..this about dialogue between RG and JB about yard exp's.....I'm going to go out on limb here and say that sometimes RG -with her many years exps. of living in her(vacation rental) yard(renting way diff then oweing (owning) and dealing with govt, jps,wata,)- will discount and downplay some of us who has a diff,exp in Jam-JB was simply stating the obvious : RGs exp will never be the same and she may never have a clue because of the type of Yards we live in..thats the bottom line-more of a dialogue i saw develop between RG and JB,, an observation... I dont understand someone whom in this thread say "breathe" etc, and to each his own ,etc,etc.. and then right behind this post on Jus Natural put the claws out and post a neg .comment about people who you said can have their own say, etc,,, Oh well ,gotta love the internet and Tammy for allowing the airing...
05-02-2013, 06:00 AM
Here where I live everyone refers to their properties as "yards ". Where ever is safe is the BEST place.
05-02-2013, 09:29 AM
Looking at this with fresh eyes today I'm still at a loss for words or understanding really why this thread was started, why there is such vitriol regarding my using the word "yard" to describe where I live...so, friends on my block and up the block on Hylton Ave, with homes from humble to grand, walls (my godson just finished putting an 8' wall around his entire yard, NOT an inexpensive undertaking)are they not supposed to say they live "a yaad" or "come on over to my yard" or "I just planted a tree in my yard"? Is the word "yard" supposed to be reserved for something else? Macy help me out here - but in the 30 years that I have been coming to Jamaica everyone living there refers to their home/property as their "yard" whether it has 7 dwellings on it, 5 dwellings on it or ONE house on a lot in Redground or Orange Bay (I love OB, such a nice community.) Enlighten me please...cause I say I live in a yard just because its nice, or has a gate (new, by the way) or a high wall (built after my landlord moved his wife and three children in there)...I'm not "getting it" and maybe I never will. Look - the house I rent, as I said is not a regular vacation rental/villa. Sure, when I get there the landlord takes care to "spruce" it up but there's always stuff to be done, screens repaired, roof shingles to be replaced, this year I had to get a new ceiling fan in my bedroom. No worries. When MDC was being built my yard and my house lost power every day at sunset, just like the rest of my neighborhood. Their generator sounded like a jet engine, lol. We, the renters in the yard had no generators and truth be told lost our sense of humor after a couple of weeks of this nonsense. My friend and I actually flagged down a JPS truck in an attempt to hijack it over to our area to try to fix the problem. Everyone knows the West End, particular my part of the West End has been having severe water problems since November - well...that includes me and my little house. The last "good" shower I had was New Years Eve - my next door neighbor who does not have a pump had her last good shower on Christmas. So, the last month we were there we were dealing with water issues from having to lug containers out to the street on the off chance the water truck came by - we had to try to make the tanks on the property work, then bleach, boil, filter...wash out of a bucket, learn how to do laundry with 5 gallons of water...sure, I could've said "f" this and moved to a hotel as someone suggested but no, not the point. When I say I "live" there that's what I do - through the good, the bad and the ugly (having Bren staying at Catcha Gardens with a nice strong shower came in handy, lol.) My house is furnished - but my first week is spent moving in - getting my things out of storage, using my own linens, my own kitchen stuff - its a house and it comes with furniture and that's it. No housekeeper. No cook. I shop the way my neighbors shop - fish market, butcher in Sav, veg truck that comes to the yard, chickens from my neighbor's "ranch". I so enjoy that. My little badge of honor when I'm there is cooking with local and seasonal ingredients. Thank you Brenda again, she would get so excited to cook with us and I would LOVE to cook for her. (She was a chef). So I'm still perplexed as to why JB felt she needed to "figure out" where my yard was and at best peak through the gate (you really wouldn't see much that way anyway) or worst trespass on private property (wouldn't get too far past the dogs is my guess?) JUST to "call a thing a thing". My god girl you are in Negril and walking around my neighborhood is really nice - lots of nice yards with Jamaicans AND Expats living in them and its still one of the few spots where you can see the sea from the road. Suzen, your spot sounds like paradise so I'm guessing that you must feel blessed in your life too, as I do. So why be so touchy about my feeling blessed with the situations in my life that I have created and worked hard for and have the need to minimize my experiences? I don't want to own land in Jamaica, not now at least...so I rent a house. In a yard. In a real neighborhood, not in the middle of hotel central and in a quiet part of town. Honey, you really inspired me to take that ride east and I'll always be grateful for your advice and encouragement. And Macy, I GET IT about staying a-yard with FAMILY. These days when I go to New York (my "old country") I stay in a hotel. Family dynamics are family dynamics all over the world. So now I think I've said enough on the subject, I said before I'm done defending my life to anyone - you guys, my Mom, even my friends sometimes. I am what I am, I know myself and I know my comfort zones and I know when to push outside of that comfort zone. That first time 10 years ago when I sublet my friend's cabin in that same yard (cabin, no hot water, Les called it the "glorified tool shed" lol) I was nervous, it was outside my comfort zone but within the first week of the six I'd spend there that year I felt AT HOME. A-yard. And in a great community. Another blog post for those interested:
05-03-2013, 12:05 AM
After watching from the sidelines I will add just a few cents...I could be completely out to lunch and all wrong but I will suggest perhaps some of the "negative" comments directed to RG just might have something to do with the countless condescending remarks as well as the constant reminders of the 2 or 3 months you LIVE there I read from posts one after another. Even your last post has a subtle shot to all of us that stay in "hotel central" while we VACATION in Negril. On one hand you state you stay "out of the mix" but yet every time someone mentions something slightly controversial you either don't believe it until you "check with your peeps" to confirm, or if someone mentions a business you not only know them but are good friends with them, not only that but have been for a long time. You have mentioned the lack of water how many times in the last several months? Imagine what its like for the people that actually live there and don't have the option to pack up and return to their real home. How many people living up in Redground have a pool to suck water from to flush with when the water stops flowing? Maybe get off your pedestal and realize those people that are stuck staying in "hotel central" are probably loving it, and when they are paying $100+ a night its not unreasonable to expect running water. I think I will stop there. I know not all will agree with me but I also know there are some that will, but would rather not speak up. Now back to the Treasure Beach thread, where there is actually some worthwhile reading and helpful information for the travellers out there.
05-03-2013, 08:26 AM
I don't think there is anything wrong with looking what another calls home, vacation, yard, whatever. Of course any of us would have done the same if we saw it-which is look and analyze our thoughts. I don't think anyone would have cared about being curious-it's human nature. However, unless we are blind and stupid and have no ability to understand inteferences, it was the condescending remarks that came along with the Geraldo Rivera "investigative journalism" type of JB report of how and RG "lives" that tipped it over. It is almost the schoolyard mentality of of "well RG brags every chance she gets so she deserves to be put back in her place in front of the whole class." Really?? I'm surprised more don't see it is what it is--the original posts were definitely more than just an observation/comparison/expectation of how another "lives" in Jamaica. It was ripe with smart ass sarcasm. And Medi's honesty should put it to rest and provide clarity. |
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