Gratuitous Domestic Posting (TM) - Kitchen Update

Well, Old Mr. Fridge, who had taken up temporary residence in the library, has been given the cliff, replaced this morning by New Mr. Fridge. Unfortunately, NMF must bunk in the dining room for now because the retiling of the kitchen floor is still behind schedule. (For those of you keeping track, it turns out that the handyman did not whack his hand with the sledge getting old tile out. Instead, a piece of shrapnel from the old tile caught him across the back of his hand and partially severed a tendon. Nothing permanent, fortunately.)

Anyhoo, we're beginning to get forward: the first two rows of new tile went in yesterday afternoon. It's a nice terra-cotta and will be a welcomed change from the dingy old dirt-white that we used to have. Alas, not everybody is happy about it: the eight year old took one look, sniffed and remarked that we were going to have to repaint the kitchen walls because their current color wouldn't go with the new tile. The infuriating thing is that she's right.

UPDATE: Handyman is just about done grouting the tile where NMF will go, so we'll be able to roll him over to his permanent home shortly. Then the question will be whether we can figure out how to hook up the water/ice-maker doo-hickey.

UPDATE DEUX: NMF has landed.