If you can't tie a knot, tie a lot.

That's a phrase to describe "those who can't" in the world of sailing. It brings to mind those who installed our kitchen floor. Brian has a few choice names for them. In fact, not an hour has gone by in the past three days when he hasn't uttered, well, something I shouldn't repeat here.

He has justification.

You see, the previous installers got staple happy. I mean REALLY staple happy. There were (insert Carl Sagan voice here) Billions and Billions of staples in the floor. Take overkill and kick it up a notch. And trying to get them out with our pliers was nothing short of torture. So this morning while I was making rounds, Brian did a bit of research and discovered these:

The Extractor is like Manna from heaven when it comes to cursed floor staple removal!

Oh. My. Gawd. These things ROCK! Worth every penny of the $28 we spent for each of two of them. It made pulling out those damn staples a breeze. So now, the kitchen floor is removed down to the subfloor. So now it's time to level it out and prep it for the flooring that arrives in two days!