Wow, we are SO almost there

In the last couple days, we've gotten this

hot and cold, and the sprayer (which feels pretty good in 90-degree weather)

and this

L's anniversary gift - dragon and phoenix YiXing tea set. Dragon and phoenix are the Chinese symbols for man and woman. Seems appropriate for 24 years together, eh? Looks quite nice on the new sideboard.

I took some old canisters that were hidden by all the clutter in kitchen and set them up to see how they would look.

These came in today, right on schedule.

displayed in half-bath where they are supposed to go but where we couldn't decide on paint color to go with them, and

here, next to the paint color in the hallway just adjacent to half-bath. Hmmmm.

And these:

there are two of these and they are RECLINERS. Mosa doesn't care about that, but she is quite conscientous about checking them out. Over and over.

and even this, in the "loft" area.

it's been placed but not stained or varnished yet.

but the biggest thing, I think has been this

We have a kitchen now. The old DW is downstairs, and L can put the new one in in a couple days, I think he needs a break, don't you?