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Ada Body Shop

This is the website of my son-in-law Jim's family's business. Ada Body Shop is a successful and growing business, but you would never know that by their website, which is kind of amateurish, somewhat unfinished, and fairly lacking in information. Hey, Jim, for a couple of bucks I'll spruce up your website and make it work for you. Whattayasay?

The Big One

Watch my wife, Glenda, catch a big trout on Pyramid Lake, Nevada, in July of 2008, about 60 seconds after she put a fishing line into the water for the first time in her life. (What you can't see is her bitter and jealous sons-in-law, Jason and Jim, who never caught a fish all day. I mean all day. Glenda caught two. Two big ones. We ate them for dinner that evening.)

CanvassNation

My son-in-law, Jason, has three businesses which are all related. CanvassNation does the door-to-door marketing for anybody who needs marketing help, but primarily for his Gutter Cap and Trumark Lawncare businesses in West Michigan.

Conservative Resources

This is a political website created and maintained by a mysterious family member who prefers to remain anonymous... even though we all know who he is. Despite that anonymous baloney, the site is pretty good. Maybe even very good. Excellent even. Awesome. Life altering and transcendant. Judge for yourself.

TheCovellFamily.com

This is my nephew Ryan's blog, which is even less current than the Purcell family blog. It looks like there hasn't been an entry in over five years (writing this on 11/22/09). If there was such a thing as Internet cobwebs, they'd be draped all over this place. It's interesting just to see how long the place lasts before the Internet gods decide to pull the plug, or Ryan marries a feminist who makes him change his last name, or somebody named Covell runs for president and pays Ryan a million dollars for the domain name.

Erin Gravelyn

This is Erin's company profile at Dickinson Wright PLLC, a law firm with offices across the country. It looks like Erin's specialty is business law with an emphasis on appeals cases, but I can't tell for sure.

The Family by Jim Gravelyn

This is a book I wrote which attempts, in my crude and sarcastic way, to summarize the genealogical history of my family. The trunk of the family tree being my parents, Barb & Harry Gravelyn, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, in 1919.

Glenda sings the national anthem!

Watch my wife, Glenda, sing the Star Spangled Banner before the start of a Reno Aces baseball game on May 10, 2011. She went to a mass audition in March and they loved her. Then when my office found out she was singing they rented a pary zone for the game and we had about thirty people there to watch.

Jim & Glenda's start page

This is just our internet browser home page, parked on a reliable web host so we can access it no matter where we are and no matter what computer we happen to be using. We are so clever.

Marty Gravelyn

This is Marty's company profile at Greenridge Realty in West Michigan. It's been a few years since I lived in Michigan, but Greenridge used to be the biggest real estate company in West Michigan. Marty is based in Spring Lake, which is a community along the Lake Michigan shoreline.

Michigan Gutter Cap

My son-in-law, Jason, has three businesses which are all related. CanvassNation does the door-to-door marketing for anybody who needs marketing help, but primarily for his Gutter Cap and Trumark Lawn Care businesses in West Michigan. This site is shared by three different companies which between them cover Michigan for Gutter Cap products.

Pittbull Combat

My niece, Bree, works as a fitness & defense instructor in Seattle, Washington. This is their website, where you can schedule a class with Bree if you're feeling froggy. So far they don't have a profile of Bree online, but I'm sure it's coming...

Purcell family

This blog started out as a site to coordinate the Purcell Family Reunion, but when the reunion got postponed family members decided to keep it going as a place to keep in touch. We'll see if that actually happens. I haven't seen an entry in months (writing this on 11/20/09).

Rivertown Insurance Agency

Rivertown Insurance is in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The agency was started by my brother, Bob, many many years ago, and then my nephew, Jay, started working there a couple of years ago. Their office is down on Monroe Avenue in the Coopers Landing building. (By the way, guys, you have broken and old links on your website.)

Roni Rone Singing

This is a video of our daughter singing in church, grandson Andre on the drums in the foreground. Roni's partner is filming and her father is the pastor. I wish I knew the name of the church, but all I know is that it's in the Detroit area.

Tom & Susan Gravelyn

Tom & Susan both work at Pulmonary & Critical Care Associates in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and these are their brief online profiles at the company website. One above the other. Apologies, Susan, for using the link to Tom instead of you, but such is the tyranny of alphabeticalism.

Travelyn Publishing

Yeah, yeah, I have a publishing website. Basically, I feature a few books by writers I know, a couple of my own, my father's World War II book, and my wife Glenda's P.O.D. Cards. In addition, I offer some electronic publishing help for a fee.

Trumark Lawn Care

My son-in-law, Jason, has three businesses which are all related. CanvassNation does the door-to-door marketing for anybody who needs marketing help, but primarily for his Gutter Cap and Trumark Lawn Care businesses in West Michigan. This site offers both Trumark Lawn Care and Trumark Snowplowing.

Victorious Rone's Gaia profile

Honest to God, I don't know what this is. You would need somebody from a younger generation to explain it. It's Victorious' profile for an online world called Gaia... but what that means exactly I don't know.

Word For Word

Joli Darling does proofreading, and this is her website offering her services. I don't really know anymore about it than that.

World War II by Harry Gravelyn

My father, Harry C. Gravelyn, wrote this book over the course of many years. In fact, it's now 2009 and he is still adding pictures and documents to the appendix. It's an awesome book, full of mundane details you don't often see, and written purely from an infantryman's perspective. Even in a full-out war like World War II, the percentage of military men who actually fight on the front lines is miniscule. My father was on the front lines almost non-stop from the second he landed at Normandy until he left the European mainland on a hospital ship.