The Man Room

Sam is an avid outdoorsman. He is also quite the hunter. I'm talking "trophy hunter". As a matter of fact, he is on his annual mule deer hunt this weekend. And he has been to Africa...TWICE.

Enter "The Man Room".

Dead animals hanging on the walls freaked me out as a child. Papa Coke had head shoulder mounts of white tail and elk in the big room at his house. And when I was 4 years old and standing in front of the fireplace to get warm, I swear those animals' eyes were focused on me and followed my every move in that room. The big room was sprinkled with oriental rugs and Wedgewood vases. But it was still "The Man Room".

The Man Room at the Back Forty sports two kudu shoulder mounts, a red sable shoulder mount on a pedestal, a water buffalo, a warthog, two whitetail shoulder mounts and twenty-one whitetail antler mounts. Oops, forgot the springbok thing that is from Africa and is a shoulder mount. (I think that is what it is called.) And there is the African alter that consists of a zebra skin covering an antique table. Bottles of Castle Rock beer, masks, spears, carvings out of some type of wood of elephants, a rhino and a warthog and kudu horns that have carvings of African animals grace the alter. And on the fireplace mantle we have more carvings in kudu horns of African animals and wood carvings of more African creatures. A 3-foot tall giraffe guards the doorway between the Man Room and the dining area. There are a couple of walking sticks (one disguises a knife in the handle) as well.

I didn't infiltrate too many of my belongings into the Man Room. I respect the Man Room and am careful not to womanize it because that would be sacreligious.

However, did I mention the four antler mule deer mounts and one mule deer shoulder mount in the master bedroom? I swear that mule deer's eyes are watching my every move in that room....kinda creepy....