Jerry Zezima: The Prince of Paint
Published in Lifestyles
Jerry had a little lamb.
It was a shade of paint.
It went right on the bathroom wall.
The fumes could make you faint.
That’s the nursery rhyme I composed while painting the wall of a bathroom in our house.
Fortunately, I wasn’t overcome by fumes, which might have improved the creative process, but I can say that the paint is a shade of beige called lambskin.
And I will add, with no small amount of pride, that I picked it out myself. In fact, I have become so good at selecting just the right color that I have crowned myself the Prince of Paint.
This is appropriate since I spend what my wife, Sue, considers an inordinate amount of time on the throne.
It was there that I mulled over the color choices for the bathroom that was about to be renovated.
It wasn’t the first porcelain palace that needed an overhaul. Last spring, the main bathroom had to be remodeled.
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