Silver Lining

This is a two-fer - really, a three-fer.  I was getting rid of something, which led to repair of a second thing, which in turn resulted in finding a third thing that I happened to really need.

Lemme esplain.

I have WAY too much silverware.  I have remnants of my first silverplate set, which, for whatever reason, I still have bits of even though I did technically get rid of that set years ago.  I have the "current" silverplate set (fleur de luce), which for about a year has lived side-by-side with a stainless steel set I bought a Pier 1 (to see if I liked that type of large-handled ware).  There's a box of my parents' stainless, which I will not let go of due to sentimental reasons.  There's also Mom's "good" silverplate (Queen Bess) in its own wooden box.  I've got several odd bits in other patterns leftover from when I fancied myself a silver/silverplate flatware collector - sugar spoons, pastry forks, gravy ladles, twisted butter knives, that sort of thing. And a small handful of silverplate flatware of my Dad's, which he loved because it was used on the Santa Fe railroad.

So, that newer stainless, I like it, but don't love it, and the knives are poorly made - I've broken two of them cutting butter (because it's not like like I'd use my actual butter knives for that . . .) so they are going (donation).

 Note that I kept the box, because I always knew there was a good chance I wasn't keeping this set.  I'm seriously thinking of dumping most of the fleur de Luce as well, so I took it all out of the wooden silverware caddy in the kitchen drawer, because the caddy was broken and needed to be reglued-renailed.  While I was looking for adhesive, which lives in the kitchen junk drawer, I came across the sliding window lock, which I didn't know I had and do not recall having acquired.

 I've been wanting/wishing for something like this now that it is warm, I am living on the ground floor with no A/C, and wanting to keep the windows open.  (This was never an issue in my second-story condo, but it is here.)  So, I promptly put the lock on one of the windows.  Here it is in action.  (that's my awesome compost bin in the background)

I know it won't keep out anyone determined to break in; I'm just trying to deter the opportunistic.  I plan on getting a variety of these and installing two or more per window so I can have airflow and some small sense of security during the night.

The Queen Bess has been promoted to everyday usage.  It is missing large spoons, but Dad's Santa Fe lot has three of those, and I'm keeping the fleur de Luce soup spoons, so I should be good.

So, something I don't need is going out, something I already had has been repaired, and something I'd forgotten I had has been put to good use.  Score!
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