The Visit

My sister and her hubby came down from Meechigan for a long weekend of above-freezing temperatures, fellowship, food and drink. Here are a few selected images, in no particular order.

I made this pizza (half is marinated mushrooms and artichokes, half is caramelized onions and bacon, with a blend of Italian cheeses over all:
Tim brought me weisswurst from Willi's in Frankenmuth. It was part of breakfast one day:
Here is evidence of the newly remodeled kitchen being used for a food porn photo shoot:
Big Boss Coffee Stout, as enjoyed at the Raleigh Times Bar:

Caramelizing onions for the pizza:
Blurry people:

The Reveal

We completed tiling and grouting today. Aside from the toe kick, a bit more grout sealing and a bit of moulding, this kitchen remodel is full-wrought.
In an effort to diminish the green pallor cast by the fluorescent lights, I used an incandescent work lamp (you can see its reflection on the fridge).
Big Red looks rather handsome with a backdrop of subway tiles, wouldn't you say?
And my favorite part: the capacious single bowl sink and the Great Faucet.
We moved into this house in the summer of 2004. Of the items in the kitchen at that time, only the floor and the window remain unchanged. Old carpeting in the hallway will next undergo our wrath.

I believe the correct spelling is 'beeves.'

Tiling the backspash is more further accomplished than yesterday it was.

We put tiles good. Much straightness.

Tiling the backsplash has commenced