Medi I'm still your "friend" but it makes me a bit sick to my stomach to learn that your nice breakfast at Jus Natural was consumed with gossip and talk about me and my yard - please tell me though if someone told you where it was (other than those gathered who do not actually "know") where it is? I'm really still wondering if you guys were "peaking" into the right yard, lol!
As stated in another thread, I look at people's homes and yards too but with the curiousity that comes with a beautiful piece of architecture or "what would it be like to live there" not from bad-mindedness which I think we can all agree this is EXACTLY where it came from. And oh, by the way, Medi didn't divulge details of a conversation just a little background as to where this bizarre thread started.
Tim, I know you don't like me but I have to tell you that my comment about "hotel central" was not at all meant to disrespect anyone who stays in a hotel (most prefer that for vacation, I don't-and guess what, its fun to visit my friends staying at hotels, hanging by their pool etc. Last winter anyone with a shower was game, lol.) it was meant as a "description" as to living in a yard that's in the middle of lots of resorts and activity. Truly - no disrespect and if it seemed like that I apologize. I do have to say that a lot of what I say you seem to take very personally and I'm sorry for that...but I can't sensor myself for fear of pissing you or anyone else off (no one else here does, lol). When I say I "live" there for three months I know that word "live" ticks some people off and I use it because a friend of mine who "lives" in a rented apartment in a yard further north and I once had this discussion - what do you "do" here for months? Well...live! I live my day to day like I do in Bodega but in a foreign country without the hustle and bustle of my "regular" life, allowing me to experience new things around the country I love - every year for umpteen years. I "live" somewhere that when I run out of toilet paper, I have to go buy it. I "live" somewhere that when there's no water coming out of the tap I have to figure stuff out to be able to brush my teeth and flush my toilet. My landlord put that pool in just a little over 10 years ago (he's had that yard since the late 60's early 70's - it has some cool Negril history. My friend was living in the yard at the time - one guy, one jackhammer, three years) when he was fixing up his house to move his family in. So, we're lucky to have a landlord like that, lol! And it did come in handy during the water shortage. I know many others who stay long term who refer to their "stay" as "living" on island for the "season".
I've written quite a bit about my yard. I'm sure folks are curious about it, where it is, what its called what it looks like. I've written quite a bit about my "yard" in Bodega too but there is one thing I will not post and that is the front of my house here in Bodega (just insisted it get taken off of Google Street Maps actually) and I won't ever post the name of my yard nor any identifying features of where its located. (Tick-tock, waiting for one of the "breakfast club" to do that? I sure hope not. I'm no celebrity and its not important or newsworthy to post something like that. One of the regular posters on this board knows exactly what yard I live in and she has had the decency not to name it publicly). Why? Because I'm protecting my privacy as well as those of the people that live there all year 'round. So if its a game to "find" where that is, well, I can't help it, I give up it seems so "childish". I don't think I EVER represented the place in any manner other than what it is...I don't know what the Breakfast Club thought it was - one of those in attendance I'd invited over last winter (she didn't take me up on it, we were doing different things with different peeps) and another actually KNOWS my dear friend and yard-mate so she could've just made a call and if it was convenient, maybe even had gotten a tour of not just the yard but the wonderful caves that circle the property.
Now, isn't there anything better to talk about, really???? The belly flop event looked like great fun, I've been taking such great solace and enjoyment in reading about Liz's trip and Jeannie's AMAZING trip to Antigua and Montserrat. Maybe we should all flip the tape.