making plans with Uncle B - NOW WITH FOOTNOTES

8:28 PM, via IM

B: you dont need a dutch oven do you?

bb:we have a big one
but I'd like a smaller one

B: how big?

bb: to replace a saucepan we've lost

B: replacing a sauce pan with a dutch oven?
I like it

bb: yeah - I think it will work

B: if you leave me money I will do my own food shopping
$1800.00

bb: HA

B: I eat well
they are going to have lasagna
spaghetti with my famous meatballs
chicken cutlet parmigiana
I dont know what else.

bb: heavy on the Italian!

B: eggs for breakfast
egg sammys

bb:which they will have no problem with
I don't know if anyone will be around for breakfast!

B: maybe a roast chicken

bb: and Youngest doesn't do eggs

B:
HE
WILL
DO
EGGS
or he will get a demerit*

bb: we're lol-ing!

B:not rotf-ling

bb: I don't know why he's never cultivated a taste for eggs

B: but I make a nice fritatta

bb: and he can't do steak

B: hot dogs and mac and cheese
ooooh a brisket

bb: they are only around for breakfast on weekends and they sleep LATE

B: what do they eat on school days?

bb: on school days they grab and run

B: who am i gonna have coffee with?

bb: though Middle doesn't get up early for school this year

B: who am i going to make witty retorts to over waffles?

bb: Middle does coffee

B: do you have a french press?

bb: french coffee press?
yeah

B: no.

bb: and an espresso pot

bb: panini press?
yeah

B: no. a french clothes press, I am very particular about my clothes.....
now I'm lol-ing

bb:now I'm rotfl


bb: we have every appliance you could ever want

B: waffle iron?

bb: and if it's hot Youngest will make you shaved ice
yep a waffle iron

B: cool

bb: K says that the waffle iron needs to be set between 5 and 6

B: I probably wont make waffles, though I am tomorrow.

bb: we have a washing machine too!

B: I'll just do my own food shopping.

bb: we're watching Magnum Force, ketchup for blood
8:40 PM

B: a man's got to know his limitations.

bb: yep - he JUST said that
and you know how to drive a jeep, right?
a jeep with leather seats, that is

B: I was driving a jeep before you were born.**

bb: heh

B: thats right. that means I drove one before i was born
I am that good
is it stick?

bb: if only is was a standard transmission

B: ah

bb: couldn't get one

B:if you wanted to you could have.

bb:it's a piece of crappe lately
very American

B: its a jeep

bb: yeah
we need a Defender

B:dont get me started.
I need a 1967 series IIa land rover

bb:someone here probably has one - maybe they'd trade with you

B:work on that.






* This refers to the time my Favorite And Only Aunt and Uncle babysat us when we were kids. My FAOUncle instituted a demerit system which, to this day, is respected, revered and rued. ~*

** Uncle B is 8 years younger than me.










~* Will you do me a favor, dear friends? Will you say a little prayer for My Favorite And Only Aunt And Uncle for me?