Another's Opinion...

Head-on collision with Dr. You last night at dinner about My Phase IV Plans. I am pretty banged-up. I was not carrying a crash helmet. The Dr. was of a divergent opinion. Packed a wallop. In the interim, from first learning details of Phase IV, which provoked a thirty minute long discourse over the telephone to me the other night, Dr. You had had ample time to expand AND reinforce his argument for the following...

NO BATHROOM!!! I can go & use the Laundry Room's facilities, if Nature calls. This is unfair. Why must I suffer the Elements of Cold & Rain and he not? His Bedroom has the convenience of an attached bathroom.

THE KITCHEN GOES IN THE DINKY ROOM!!! because, it would be unseen & out-of-the-way AND, if per chance, we care to rent-out La Casa Grande for parties, weddings & mega-dinners... an initiative solely of his own invention!!!... we would need to provide...

TWO LARGE & TOTALLY UNENCUMBERED ROOMS to host & feed the festive crowds... come Rain or Shine.

Kitchens are messy to Dr. You. It matters not a whit to him that this same room with a kitchen would also have a Dining & Sitting areas. To his restrictive parameters, the room would be only a Kitchen. That's sufficient. I could put a basket-ball court in with it and yet, to Dr. You, it would still just be an ugly, unsightly kitchen... a lowly item of service... God Forbid!!!

This kitchen bias of his is annoying. The Dr. You must keep in mind... for the umpteeth time... that I am an American, raised AND nourished in a series of American-style open plan homes where kitchens meld into dens dissolving into foyers and out to patios, etc. I did not happen to have the Fortune of Birth to dawdle around in my infancy in a 17th Century Lombardian villa where the kitchen & its associate sculleries, dispensaries, etc. were situated in an independent building. Sorry, folks. Il Poggiolo is not so equipped either. La Casa Grande's rooms must be multi-purpose!!! The Dr.'s Bedroom & Bath is one room with a dividing half-wall... for cryin' out loud.

And, the Dr. had not finished. He took a breath and proceeded to lacerate My Color Schemes. That really hurt. I was in reverie about R.G. Green!!! Apparently, after several re-readings of My Late-breaking Blog Postings on colors... accompanied by his fleet of nurses hovering behind him as he ingested My Expostulations on Aubergine, Red Geranium & Ochre... Dr. You felt the URGENCY to express His Opinion that Teal is the ONLY color to use for the entire Casa Grande. I said that I could not live happily with a color better suited to a mortuary. I then, managed to change the subject... thoroughly DEMORALIZED!!! Gads.