Howdy, Miz Paula
J.W. Kingry
Actually I live on a landscaped acre in River Plantation, a ritzy
golfing community about 40 miles north of Houston, south of Lake Conroe,
north of the Woodlands. We are fortunate to live in a quarter million
dollar house that we bought this month $84K (cut rate - we are on a
flood plain). My office is in the sun room - about 25 x 30 feet - nice
white built-in bookcases, filled to overflowing, all around. I work at
an antique gold oak roll top that I refinished and converted to hold my
computer. I usually write in my jogging drawers and a T-shirt,
bare-foot, as close to naked as I can get and still receive visitors.
This room is the only one my wife allows me to display my museum: a
Chinese military fur cap replete with the gold and red Communist device
rests lightly on the brow of a Malaysian skull, taken by the Dyak
headhunters. A shark's jaws, a Cacharadon Megaladon shark tooth 4"x6",
Vietnamese wild boar tusks, Montagnard crossbow and poison arrows, first
century oil lamp from Palestine, a copy of the Rosetta Stone, Middle
East artifacts from 1,500 BC to Byzantine era, Muslim Brass worship
platter with the hundred names of God, my children's awards, pictures,
as well as pastel portrait of my wife, A Chinese primitive painting of
fishermen plying their nets, my spook awards, medals, and mementos, war
souvenirs, Chinese art and cooking equipment, my artwork, stainglass
projects, scrollwork, and Chinese calligraphy.
With the potted bamboo and palms, it makes the place look like a Hong
Kong antique and grotesquerie shop in Kowloon. I usually sip diet soda
and sweat under two ceiling fans. Instead of a pith helmet, I usually
wear a VietCong floppy cotton jungle hat, and no ascot... sorry. I have
been known to wear a white linen suit though.
I was cuX-Mozilla-Status: 0009 thought YOU might dwell in Houston...
JW Kingry