Part V: No French chefs, no partridge, no pear tree

Meanwhile, decisions are being made at a blistering pace in the oven area upgrade taking shape in a canyon kitchen in rural Sunol, California, home of Sister Sosie and Saint Bill. Today's epistle highlights the struggles between metal and glass, right and wrong, good and bad. Read on:

Sosie writes:

Pedro called to say that my new love, the induction range, is so eager to join our family that it arrives a week early and will be on our doorstep in the morning. 

Backsplash color, texture palette

Meanwhile, two Rons worried out cabinet details today, one by email and one in person. May the worries lead to solutions. Costco be with us, all will be well.
Re the Back-Splash Dilemna--metal trumps glass. We ordered metal tile to bridge the Sandalwood Corian countertops below the existing window tile (see picture of whitish Sandalwood Corian, square Japanese pool tiles used in our 1986 kitchen, and rectangular metal tiles). 

 
Nope, no sophisticated back-painted glass, goofy rooster tiles, or happy dancing French chefs for us on the back splash of our stove. Nope, we've settled on sensibly smooth and wipeable metallic tiles framed by bumped out bull-nosey coppery things. 

Yup, yup. That's today's decision.