The Fish Was Fried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep, we had fish slaw hush puppies french fries and sweet ice tea! You can't have a fish fry in the south and not have sweet tea! I think there is a law or something about that. You risk jail time if you have a fish fry below the Virginia border without sweet tea. If you have crossed the Virginia line at some point in your life you know what I mean. They look at you with that look of "oh you must be from the Carolina's"...

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We had a good crowd and several vendors. The customers seemed to enjoy the food and some of them even listened to what the vendors had to say. That always make them (vendors) feel like they are worth something. Believe me we have a steady stream of them coming through here every day! They love to hear themselves talk!

We had corn for the taking, straight from Bo's farm! By the time everyone left the pile was a lot smaller than this. If you missed this one we hope you can make it next time. Good times where had...............

Warehouse.................

Have you ever seen a real lumber yard warehouse? Well we are a real lumber yard and we have a warehouse. I thought about listing all the products we have in the warehouse but hey, we have a website. So if you aren't aware of that check out matthewsbuildingsupply.com.

Although I assume you came here through the website or facebook, one of the two. Heck on the opening page of our site you see the warehouse. I have worked here for 20 plus years and I still love the smell of all the new fresh wood when I walk in the back door.

If you have never been by our place come on down and take a stroll through the back and excite your senses! You might find a new crown pattern you didn't realize we had.

Timber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No nothing is falling, just thought we could talk about timber to start the week. These came back from our shop the other day and I thought they would make for a good subject.

The material came in to the shop and then they milled them to speck for the customer. That might not sound to hard but these things are 12x12 smooth side cedar. They ain't no 4x4's!!!! The shop can make just about anything you need out of wood. Any wood for that matter. This is a pergola, and a few corbels I hope to get a shot of the finished pergola....

Next time you need any timber work done remember we can get it done for you!!!!!!!!!

We've Gone To The Dogs..................

Yep, we have gone to the dogs! You have to love a company where you can bring your pet to work! Sometimes Merlot will bring Bo to work, but today Bower brought Craig to work! Meet Bower he is the latest to run the halls of Matthews. He spent the morning with us, at least until Craig got unruly. Bower caught him drinking out of the toilet!!! So Bower took him home! Craig will love this post Monday!!!!! Hope I made you laugh, see ya next week...............

Stair parts...............

Are you aware we have access to 17 different specie's of stair parts. It might take a few weeks to get some of these but with a little planning you could really put a unique stair system in your next house. Or if you would like to redo what you already have!

                             ALDER                                       MAHOGANY

                             WALNUT                                   LYPTUS

                             WHITE OAK                              HICKORY

                             BIRCH                                        ASH

                             SOUTHERN YELLOW PINE    BRAZILIAN CHERRY

                             AMERICAN CHERRY              BEECH

                             BLACK WALNUT                    HEMLOCK

                             MAPLE                                      POPLAR

                                                        RED OAK

Just thought I would let you know what is available. Again some of these are a few weeks out but overall it really is not that long of a wait time. Planning is the key, with just a little more you can really separate yourself from the rest of the crowd.

With the market as tight is it is wouldn't you like to have one more option to give homeowners. Right now it is all about standing out in the crowd......................                                

You Like Us yet..............

That's right "do you like us yet" ? I am talking about Facebook Of course, I know you already like us. How could you not. We have the most diversified staff in the lumber business. Only at MBS could you have a sales staff like ours.

We have a Lying Larry a Serious Eddie, Happy Feet Gary. Then we have a Window and Door Guru, a Silver Hair Tiny Tim and The Worlds Greatest Lumber Salesmen Ritchie, with his side kick Gertrud! For goodness sake don't forget Jumpin Jimmy! Then we have a shop with the Rick & Rick show. We have it all covered.

So now that you know who we are why not hit that like button next time you are on Facebook. Together we can turn this slow economy around. You see the more people who like us the higher we go in the search engine and in turn you get to come along for the trip! Although I am scared of hieghts, I am tired of slow business. SO HIT THAT BUTTON.....

Isn’t It Funny?

Isn't it funny how people all over the world visit your website? Checkout the graph below, neat ain't it. Why in the world would somebody in Africa be checking out our website. I assure you we don't run trucks from here to there! We don't even have a UPS account (yet) if we have something that we could ship let us know. I will set up the account. So far we are only a local company.

I like this feature though, it is kinda neat to see where people live who are checking you out. We can tell what city they live in but that's it. The world wide web really is world wide! Just more proof, I always wonder what products they are looking for that would direct them to our site. Do they use the same building materials in Singapore as they do here! From what I see on the news, I would say they don't! So who is looking.

One more thought, I told Wes, our web designer, the hits from India are the guys trying to hack the site! Made me laugh anyway.............................