Which means the kitchen nearly is—a lot of fiddly chipping of excess mastic (glue) before grouting, occasional replacement of a bit of tile where the match is less pleasing. It’s stretched into the second week, but we’re getting there. And we have—wait for it—ONE sheet of tile left, of the several boxes of sheets we ordered. It’s looking great.

We’re going to build (well, Scott is) two flanking display cabinets for the china hutch, because we have a lot of pretty little items. And then we can start moving boxes out of the kitchen. We will also be moving things into the garage for, ultimately, the long-threatened garage sale. We have the cumulative ‘stuff’ from the move up from Oklahoma, the 3 storage units, the Spokane Valley apartment, its storage units, and here, where it is junk in the basement. We are needing clutter gone from our lives.