Pictures

So I built a memory book for Dave's high school reunion.  I had felt honored to be asked and remembered even if it was Suzie who did the asking.  Actually Suzie doing the asking probably was the best thing.  She has been Dave's friend since high school and they went to the last reunion together.
So I went through my digital files over and over and over.  Picking the right photos to include.  Then I had to go through the real photographs from the pre-digital days.  I'm almost done and realize I didn't see any wedding pictures of Tanya.  So I went through all of them again.  It is not a small task.  I have a lot of photos that I have taken over the years.
And I consider myself the owner of any photograph that I took.
But alas I could not find any.  And then my brain kicks in.  One box that I had left behind that got sent to me via Mike was all mess up.  My pictures get a bit messed up when I'm going through them, but they are still close to time framing.  These were a messy mess.  And then I realized....duh....Doug had went through them and took what he wanted and he gave some to Tanya.
Now the conversation with Tanya is just sucky.  She can't tell me whether she got pictures from the house or not.  She thinks she may have seen some wedding pictures.......yeah finally I just told her that I knew she had them.  And that it was all right.  She would have ended up with them eventually anyway. But I did ask for a few that I could use for the book and a few to scan to keep.  She very generously let me borrow my pictures.
The memory book is finished.  And after the two conversations I have had with Tanya about pictures where she is so evasive....the first being I asked her if I had given her Dave's Sr. picture.  She couldn't tell me because she hadn't really looked at them.....I'm not feeling too generous about sharing anymore of my pictures.   Not that there are many left that she or Doug would be interested in.  I had given them their pictures a long time ago...all those from school and sports, etc. And I think the rest I have of Dave can go to Mike and his children.
Through all of this I realize that I should scan all the non digital pictures so they are in that format and on that external hard drive.  I just find it a daunting task just thinking about it.