Tony: A Man of Property
Excerpts from a St. Helena Star article from 2004. This is Tony.
Tony may not be able to control his hand or his checkbook, but it seems he has a good wife who is trying to keep that pesky addiction under control.
But then, the problem becomes clear: land is just flying at them!
Then the article gets into how they've never been to France (too busy buying land!) and a few parcels that they don't own around what they do own, and how this little piece of the pie irks him and he concludes:
Maybe someone will die and the phone will ring. Maybe someone will throw the land at him so he can finally close that darn checkbook and get down to the business of living.
Tony may not be able to control his hand or his checkbook, but it seems he has a good wife who is trying to keep that pesky addiction under control.
But then, the problem becomes clear: land is just flying at them!
Then the article gets into how they've never been to France (too busy buying land!) and a few parcels that they don't own around what they do own, and how this little piece of the pie irks him and he concludes:
Maybe someone will die and the phone will ring. Maybe someone will throw the land at him so he can finally close that darn checkbook and get down to the business of living.
Labels: Napa, newspapers, real estate, rich people say the darndest things, white wine
posted by Bernie at
12:48 PM
11 Comments:
if you're starting to wonder whether bernie kept a scrap book in napa, yes she did.
I wouldn't call it a scrap book as much as I'd call it a sketch book with other stuff in it-- 'scrap book 'implies it's sentimental, no?
Perhaps an additional label should be "rich people say the darndest things."
when the "other stuff" is newspaper clippings, it's a scrap book.
elizabeth, i'm adding it right now!
John, look up scrapbooking. That has nothing to do with me.
if i were tony's neighbor, i'd be a little bit of a tease.
Somewhere in the article, Jo Ann says, "Us farmers are the biggest environmentalists anywhere."
this reminds me that I am too poor to ever buy land.
what the st. helena star teaches us, Becky, is that sometimes people get land in the most unexpected ways.
Like inheriting it from a relative!
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