The mudman goeth

Bobby D, the tile man, was ashen when he got to the house Wednesday morning. He said his son was in the hospital -- something heart-related, but as yet undiagnosed.

While the docs were doing their tests, he said, he'd finish the grout on the last shower -- here's the stall before he wiped it down -- but wouldn't be able to do the rest of the job.

His son apparently has some monster project farther up the Keys, and dad's going to take it over for him to take the pressure off.

Such is life, and we certainly wish Bobby and his family well.

By late afternoon, Lori at Island City Tile had come through yet again, and we had another tile guy on site to give us a quote on the rest of the project.