Tomato Time

The Cherokee Purples are ripening. This ginormous one was ready to be picked today. Cracking on the ones in the background is common for this variety and doesn't detract from flavor. Cherokee Purple is the best tasting tomato I've ever eaten, ugly and all. And here are the two pups.

Cooktop

What a surprise. The granite cutter and cooktop installers both had time available and were able to coordinate to install the cooktop and downdraft today. Only about an inch of granite needed to be cut from the existing cutout but the first cut was a fraction of an inch too short so a second cut had to be made. Granite dust was everywhere and it took a couple of hours to clean that up. But the cooktop is amazing. Bob put on a pan of water, turned on the booster function and it boiled within seconds. Turned the burner to zero and it immediately stopped boiling. So that speed is what I have to adjust my cooking to. The downdraft blower sounds like a jet engine when on high, a major improvement over the downdraft that was built in to the JennAir. This is the Bosch 800 series induction cooktop and downdraft.

Frog in the Dahlia

This is why we don't use herbicides and live with weeds...

Hattie as a pup

Bathroom Pictures

Last pictures of the bathrooms that I'll post. We love the master bath now. It feels spacious and bright. The house feels updated and materials are higher quality.

Before pictures...

This is looking from the bedroom into the bathroom through the pocket door with the door to toilet stall to the right...

...shower to the left and very narrow walkway between to the sinks and closet. The shower was dark, the toilet stall was dark and cold, and the three doors opening into each other made it difficult to move around in the room.

The countertop was replaced, giant wall mirror removed, new floor tile, tile around wall... 

...door to toilet stall removed, new tile...

...new shower area and fixtures...

...pocket door to bathroom removed and replaced with the toilet stall door, now the toilet stall is open...

...looking from the bedroom into the bathroom.

Before guest bathroom...

Now with new countertop and backsplash, and the giant wall mirror removed.

Powder room before...

Powder room with new countertop and backsplash.

Miss Hattie

Ducks under the rockers

Remodel Update

It's almost finished. Until I post some photos there is this to ponder....