4 Airports, 3 Flights ✈️, 2 great reasons to go and 1 Morning 🌄 Brew on Thursday, November 5th!

I am comfortable sitting at Gate 4 at ROA with 75 minutes of time before the first flight ✈️ takes off so it’s a good time to start our Morning Brew.

Here in a bit, we will hear from Joel Osteen, Howard Mayo, and Travis Osborne . I will plug 🔌 in their stuff as it arrives, here in the next bit.

Fourteen days out in the Pacific Northwest with the focus of the trip being one Kiddo and one Grand Kiddo ! I will continue to interact with everyone who sends me nuggets as well as keeping up with the hoopsters from last night.

Tonight at Saved by the Bell 🔔 : The Cavalier College years we will prepare a basketball 🏀 salad 🥗 as Elijah Cox, Alyssa Ervin, Camp Community College, and the Radford women will all take to the hardwood shortly !

While I have never had the privilege of meeting the impressive young lady who is on the staff at Radford University, I do have extensive history with the three players which made last night a fun way to contribute to our Saved by the Bell 🔔 takes.

Our gate has switched from #4 down to #6 so it’s a good time to stick a pin 📌 in this and I will circle 🔵 back when others are awake ⏰️. Bright eyed 👀 and bushy tail is how one describes Travis Osborne in the AM…. anyone else old enough to remember that ????

Have a Blessed Day 🙌😇🙏

The view from the Top !

5 :37 – Good Morning, Travis Osborne

1 John 3:1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day :
5:50 am, now just need the 6am email 📧 from Joel Osteen !
At the buzzer….

Next Stop ✋️ : Hotlanta

Made it onto the next flight ✈️ with a couple of minutes to spare !

Tonight at Saved by the Bell 🔔 : The Cavalier College years we will prepare a basketball 🏀 salad 🥗 as Elijah Cox, Alyssa Ervin, Camp Community College, and the Radford women will all take to the hardwood shortly !

Furman University Women’s Basketball opponent tonight.

None of these three games are going to be overly competitive tonight, but each one has a reason why we care…

Pierre Curtis and Furman look to bounce back at home, and with the men’s team playing afterward, there might be a few more folks inside Timmons !

Look for Coach to give his starters a few extra minutes in hopes of them finding their rhythm against a D2 foe from just down the road. The tip is set for 5pm

Elijah Cox and Randolph are on the other end of the playing a game from a team that is not playing at the same classification. This one is D3 at D1, so don’t look at the final score but focus on how our Mr. Cox holds up against bigger competition…

Your CCHS tie to Radford University !

Should be an interesting evening !

Check ✔️ back, early and often…

Solid first 20 minutes as the ‘Dins play 11 and have five score at least eight points !

Ervin dropped 🫳 11 in just 12 minutes while adding two rebounds and an assist.

5:50 PM

Kiddo had a very productive six minutes in the third quarter as she went 2 for 2 and snagged two rebounds ! One of the Hoops was from deep, now at 16 points.

11 players played double figures in minutes and five scored 10+! Nelson went 6 of 7 on the night 🌙.

Just what the doctor ordered, and they will do it again on Friday !

Next up, more Hoops !!!

Photo 📸 Credit : Furman University

Under 12:00 TO and Randolph has the lead !!!!

Still within 20 – 18 at the six minute mark!

Your middle final score…

Radford will play at Furman later this year.

Cox is having to sit after picking up his second foul early in the half, but the bench is really stepping up as it’s now 33-29

Norfolk State 35, Randolph 34 at the Half !!!! [9:07]

68 – 58 late in the second half with Cox up to six points and holding steady at 3 fouls. Great effort from Randolph College for the first 36 minutes !

73 – 60 at the final media TO ( under 4), looking to close strong 💪…

More art 🎨 from Travelers Rest !!!

Elijah adds a layup with just over 2:00 to play, now has 8 on the night 🌙

Wow !!!

Elijah finished up with 10 points and four rebounds and avoided his fourth foul !

This one counts as an exhibition for the Wildcats, and they ride home from Tidewater,  should be an enjoyable one !

Bonus note 📝:

Bryce Smoot is still chasing the Dream as well !

Hope tonight was a fun read 📚 as for me, it was a fun watch !

The 6am flight ✈️ will be here before you know it !

Fun with maps shows us that a 3,300+ mile adventure awaits ! Still 19 hours left before takeoff, so maybe there is still some Good to be done !

Laurel Fork to ROA to ATL to SLC to North of the Border is the plan now that volleyball 🏐 season is in the Books 📚.

Still have time to create a story or two before the 6am departure, so let’s see 👀 where the day takes us ????

34 and 40 minutes of layovers in two Junior sized Airports 🛫🛬…

Pop Quiz on Math Skills as the final trip over to Ferrum College begs to question, just how good is Kayla Goins Nester at hanging curtains ???

Senior, Class of 2014

Over the years, there have been many a trip over to Ferrum College and the Speedway nearby. Whether it was to watch a football game, support Dakota Walls Racing 🏁 or watch either Kaylee Bunn or Half Pint Harris play volleyball 🏐, I always think about the curtains or banners that hang on the walls of Schwartz Gym.

The three year run that included Carroll County High School grad Kayla Goins Nester is beyond impressive.  74-14 if my math holds up…