Dinner!
"Pamela" > wrote in message
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> On 21:24 21 Jun 2019, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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>> "Pamela" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 20:47 21 Jun 2019, Bruce > wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:59:33 +0100, Pamela >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On 15:10 21 Jun 2019, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/21/2019 7:04 AM, Pamela wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05:24 21 Jun 2019, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My gardener said he wanted Spanish rice, lentils and a
>>>>>>>> Mediterranean type salad.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The rice is brown. The salad is Romaine with baby bell peppers,
>>>>>>>> tomatoes,Kalamatta olives, feta cheese and pecans. His has
>>>>>>>> craisins. I have no cucumber or that would be in there too. My
>>>>>>>> blood sugar doesn't like lentils so I'm having kidney beans
>>>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Huh? Who is your gardener?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hasn't got any gardening to do, instead of making demands about the
>>>>>>> salad you're serving?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In fact, why doesn't he bring some sandwiches and just get on with
>>>>>>> the gardening work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I guess you never followed the story of the gardener. He lives in
>>>>>> one of the outbuildings.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does the gardener permanently live in the grounds but come to the main
>>>>>house for meals? That's an odd arrangement.
>>>>
>>>> Are you really going to rehash all that? Just when the vultures have
>>>> fallen asleep?
>>>
>>> I've read posters make a passing comment about Julie's gardener but I
>>> assumed it was an unwarranted snide joke about some imaginary gardener.
>>>
>>> I hadn't realised there's a real gardener and that Julie really makes
>>> carefully prepared meals for him.
>>>
>>> What's the back story? All I know is he lives in an outbuilding.
>>
>> He lost his home in a fire. I offered him the spare room but it is
>> really small. He's storing some things in there but he preferred to live
>> in what he calls the tiny house. It's not entirely finished inside and
>> there is no running water so he comes in here for that. He actually
>> comes and goes as he pleases. We're friends. He has a GF. I love to cook
>> so I said I would make dinner every night. Sometimes he buys the food.
>> Sometimes I do. I get a lot of stuff at Costco. I don't pay him. We just
>> sort of do things back and forth for each other. He does more than just
>> gardening. He's good with handyman stuff.
>
> Do you see yourself as having an emotional attchment to him?
Of course!
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