The Sweet Smell of Success

We are located in the heart of wine country. There are farms everywhere and vineyards line the hilltops. Looking out our windows at work we can see wide grassy fields, tall oak trees and beautiful mountains in the background. It is a beautiful area to live but there are certain consequences that come with this beautiful territory.

Surrounding our building complex is a rather large dairy farm. A couple times a year when the season is right and the wind is blowing there will waft in our direction a quite putrid smell of cows in action. I assume it is a mixture of manure and something in the process of processing milk. It is an organic function either way, but that did not seem to matter to Matt, our newest employee.

Being green to the intensity of the smell, he chose to wear an industrial strength painters air mask. Obviously this provided no end of amusement for the rest of us. Him walking around with the mask caused quite a stir at the “water cooler”. All in good fun though. It is not everyday that someone walks around with a large air mask at work…


This reminded me that printing can be a stinky process too. We work with messy inks and clean paper to produce a top quality product, letterpress wedding invitations. Usually toward the end of the job during clean up, a musky smell surrounds the letterpress. Though it is not as bad as the cows, it still reminds me of the sweet smell of success. Another job well done.

Invitations by Ajalon
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