It’s been a week since I posted anything here, mostly because I’ve been busy doings things like framing pictures, trying to catalog my photo collection and, of course, cleaning up my apartment.

The exclamation of “Huzzah!!!!” that forms the title of today’s post is a reference to my last post, when I wrote about the photo that I’ve had for ten years and had been kept in the darkness of the closet for all but a few hours of that time. Last week I tried to finally frame it but ended up breaking the glass for the frame.

Today, however, was another story. I am happy to report that after having it for ten years, that large print is now hanging on my wall – for the first time ever! Let’s hope it stays there for a while, though I may rotate it now and then with some other things, like the picture that had been on that spot on the wall until now – a watercolor painting of a couple of squirrels that I bought in China 19 years ago.

Today is Thanksgiving Day, and as I had no plans other than having dinner out with some neighbors, I decided to take care of framing and hanging that big print first thing after breakfast. I’d thought of taking it easy and just watching a video after dinner (I usually watch March of the Wooden Soldiers with Laurel and Hardy around Thanksgiving), but I’ve been in a mood to get things done lately so I decided to work on stuff instead.

First off was taking some steps to organize my negatives, so I went into the closet and took out about half a dozen negative page binders. I went through these and affixed labels to the side of each one indicating the numbers of the pages contained within and the contents and dates of those photos. (I had done this some years ago to my earlier binders, but typically, I never continued it.)