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The art gallery with the trompe l'oeil painting now has an artist who does houses in fresh acrylic colours and boy do I want one of those. I'm a suck for houses in paintings, so much so that people have commented on it. The three Yoshitoshi up the stairs all suggest houses with their verandahs; the Albert Franck my sister passed on to me when she moved into her apartment is a street scene; the fake Franck in the front room is a view of the back of some very Toronto houses; the Evening at Kuerner's Wyeth print in the bedroom has a house, the only light in that brown autumnal landscape; even the Foxfires at Musashino in the side room shows the far off thatch roofed houses, which many printings black out. Yes I have other prints with no houses (Hiroshige's lumberyards, Hasui's Magome, Petit's Mt. Fuji) but those synchronise with colour schemes. Houses are what I want. But I already have a large picture of a house, a watercolour that needs to be reframed except that, when framed, I can't see it properly. And those acrylics cost: 5000 for the smaller 12x16 inch ones, probably over 10,000 for the large ones. But still...

In other news, if one turns on the overhead lights in the middle room, one finds the ID fallen on the floor under the table and half underneath the carpet. So all is well on that front. My fridge does still leak if it's opened but that I can live with until spring. Got out before the worst of the snow fell and have vodka and coolers enough to see me through to next week, so shall hibernate until then.