productive.....

ok, so my plan to lay about on this day off fell through, and i found myself cleaning the basement.....especially the laundry room......to the point that i ironed scads of table linens that needed to be dealt with, in many colors and in numerous stages of repair....but usable at some point....and thus they have been ironed and stored.....and the storage areas tidied and the summer furniture cushions stowed......and even the floor washed and the rugs washed........all this possible with a movie in the backround and a glass or two of wine....the basement is the location of the wine/beer refrigerator........i could have ventured deeper, to the storage room that houses boxes of books and the odd pieces of luggage.......but that can wait for another day......i did enjoy the artwork while i was working....i had neglected to mention that the laundry area is a gallery of sorts......not just the framed poster by gustave caillbotte, but also a framed poster of one of monet's bridges at giverny......we bought it when the impressionists were still at the old jeu de paume...in 1981.......on our honeymoon.....and there is a nice original photograph of an irish town.....and a print of le petit zinc in paris that needs to be reframed.......ah well.....one can't always keep up with one's basement art, can one?..........had i the gumption,i could have gathered enough stuff for a yard sale from the basement alone.......but not this day........no...on this day i can lean back and rest on the laurels of productivity, but only if pressed for the question of 'and how did you spend your day off?.......'