I am not sure what got into me...maybe t'was the season, but I suddenly got the urge to polish the brass.
There is a lot of brass and copper in my house, so I started with a simple candlestick. And it looked great when I had finished scraping the old candle wax off the stick and then using a lot of elbow grease.
The thing was that it looked so shiny, so gleaming that all the other pieces looked desperately dingy.
And that was how I got tinto the frenzy of polishing. I did not mean to, but unlike the unfinished tiles on the deck that I am able to ignore, it is somewhat more difficult to ignore things inside.
So here I am with hands that ache and polish under my finger nails but with almost all the brass done.
Tomorrow I shall do the rest and for my solitary Xmas dinner I will light all the candles and watch them glow in the newly polished brass and convince myself that it was worth it.