How I Spent the Weekend
This weekend we repainted the kitchen and put down a new floor.
I am tired.
posted by greg rappleye at 6:09 PM
Sunday, September 28, 2008
This weekend we repainted the kitchen and put down a new floor.
I am tired.
About Me
- Name: greg rappleye
- Location: Grand Haven, Michigan, United States
I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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9 Comments:
cool! What kind of floor is that? I need to redo our floor but I think there are several layers to remove though.
Wow! I'm in awe. That floor is beautiful (and the kids are pretty fabulous too!)
The floor is made up of those peel-and-stick linoleum squares--so it was not expensive, less than $100--but actually does look (and feel) like wood.
A couple of the edges do look like a poet put them in, but I am pretty pleased with how easy this was to do.
It took approximately 6 hours of fairly steady work.
Cute kid! I want his t-shirt.
Wow, it seems like the way to go because a big piece of linoleum is too overwhelming for me as a beginner. But I think I could handle the squares, because if you mess up you can always use another square.
I like your choice too, with pets and kids, it doesn't show the dirt as much as my white floor! haha!
You appear to have some small helpers here, Greg!
I just called Marge's Donut Den and ordered a shirt. Ask for Becky. 50/50 poly/cotton, "they don't shrink." 616-532-7413.
Yeah! I went to Home Depot to look around and found those squares, they sure have changed from the one's I remember. They look like real tile or wood. amazing! I think I am going to just put it on top of the stuff I have already. I can use a big deep connector to connect the wood floors to the kitchen floor. Eventually I will become a step! lol
Plus I bought some pet resistant screens to replace mine with, never done it before, but I have seen it done, and the lady told me how in the store. There is nothing like a handy type women with a tool belt and all. haha!
that's so cute! i want to come home.
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