By Tiber
Ever since Dad has been trying to cut down on expenses, he’s ended up with more people living here than ever before.
Cook’s sister, Saskia, hit her own hard times and Cook asked Dad if she could live out in the gatehouse. Dad said yes but Saskia, for some reason, can never remember who he is. And whenever he drives in, she’s always confronting him, yelling, “Halt! Who goes there?!?”
Both Saskia and Cook are really tall and powerful women and with Cook already intimidating Dad inside the house, having Saskia leap at him outside has made him feel that he’s now living in some “Amazons Attack!” B-movie.
Last night, though, Saskia did not fly out of the gatehouse.
Dad did hear the back window opening.
And then, in the fading light, he saw Nestor, the gardener, scurry away across the grounds.
Nestor has been staying over in the staff wing since he got a divorce but evidently, he’s not over in the staff wing all the time.
Love may be in the air. Love may be in the eye of the beholder and clearly, love may now be in the gatehouse.
In the challenging world that we live in, I support any couple hooking up as much as the next person.
It’s just that Nestor, while pretty strong, is also pretty tiny. And Saskia is so big, she could comfortably wear a pair of moose as earrings and they’d never touch the ground.
So while some couples may look like models and some couples may look like each other, every time I think of Nestor standing next to Saskia, the only image I can think of is that of a point one.
