Matthew LaVelle’s weblog

Lots of stuff happened yesterday. Some things were good. Some things were less than good. But overall everything went very well for both of us at LaVelle Vineyards peddling Vicky’s wares. We had a long trip up fairly early in the morning. The drive between Roseburg and Elmira is a beautiful little commute that took [...]

I’m just finishing up the first printing of approximately 400 of Vicky’s business cards for this weekend. Vicky designed them herself. I just helped to format and print them at 300 dpi so that the text would be readable. She’s finally succumbed to an email address @lavelleweb.com. I even had her interested in starting a [...]

Here’s what we were looking at before. White matte finish paint slopped very thick in every nook and crany of the kitchen. Notice the partially green wall on the far side. Yeah, that was the present we got after we steamed and scraped through two layers of the ugliest wallpaper I’ve ever laid eyes upon. [...]

Today, my mother instant messaged me about my current plythe with flooring. I told her about how the carpet in the living room was ok but that it was difficult to vacuum and with Vicky’s allergies that we needed to be able to find a cleaner alternative. So she says that since the house was [...]

I just finished reading one of the funniest articles about our country’s current situation in Iraq. Great stuff. Very well balanced. Doesn’t seem like this guy is on one side of the fence or the other.