Tarnish

There’s an edit at the end of this post.

Tonight I actually DID watch something on TV, The Way I See It. It’s a documentary about the work of Pete Souza, former Chief Official White House Photographer for U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama (also he was a former director of the White House Photography Office).

It was so good. I knew I was in trouble when I began crying over photographs taken during the Reagan years. No way would I have made it dry-eyed through the Obama years. So while I watched, I polished some of our silver plate items. I think it’s pretty obvious which are polished and which are not.

There are also more tarnished pieces than are shown here, but hopefully I’ll finish the project this weekend. They can’t go back into the cases in the small dining area until I also remove and wash everything else in there and clean the dust off the shelves. Ugh. Does anyone enjoy dusting?

Meanwhile, I’m working on a short story and the third of my four-novel set. All this activity is a manifestation of pandemic and election season stress. May my writing be like the pile on the left and not the pile on the right. =)

ETA on 10/18: Not perfect, but better. My advice is don’t wait two to three years between polishing.