Our Big Brothers did us proud 👏 out in Omaha today !!
So, I have a neighbor named Brenda, and we shall call 📞 this one the story about neighbors, spaghetti 🍝, electricity and meeting your Heroes!
Check out this post… “Fun Nugget in the Inbox 📥! Tonight in Laurel Fork…”.
https://aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com/2026/06/fun-nugget-in-inbox-tonight-in-laurel.html
After the drive 🚗 back from the Softball games in Abingdon, I was ready for a nap and then a quiet night before I head out in the morning on a six week loop.
Shortly before 6 pm, I received a text message from our downstairs neighbor, Brenda, and it was uplifting enough that I turned it into a post on the Laurel Fork Coconut 🥥 Telegraph. That is the link above…
The photo 📸 Brenda sent me looked appetizing, and it led me to put my shoes back on and head into downtown Laurel Fork in hopes of getting myself a dinner.
I have to add that I needed to first stop ✋️ at Dollar General to get some cash 💸 back on a purchase in order to have $10.00 to pay for the spaghetti 🍝.
The store had lost power three times, and each time, they had to reboot their system. The fourth time occurred when the checkout line was 15 deep, and they were no longer using the register that allows cash back. While walking back to my car 🚗, the sky opened up in a biblical way, and now I was soaked.
I just figured I’d head 🏡 and that supporting the Community Center wasn’t in the cards tonight. Only having one $5.00 bill in my pocket, I decided to stop and ask if they took plastic? The answer was No but yet the very kind Lady said she would spot me the other $5 and gave me the instructions on how to get my meal. I took the time to show her the post 📫 I created from the picture that Brenda had sent me.
The next cause and effect thing that took place was she pointed toward the kitchen and said the gentleman wearing the black apron also had a blog that he used for good.
It was during the lead in part of the conversation that the other gentleman in the room asked if I was Jerry ? See, everything I try to do is designed to give glory to God, so my name isn’t even on my site, nor has it been for the past 18 years.
Because of this, it’s very seldom that someone can connect the dots, but that happened tonight.
Anytime I have a cause and effect story, it leads me to add a link to Joe Diffie and Third Rock 🪨 from the Sun 🌞!
Power lines are down, and we are without power, and APCO just updated that they were hoping for a return by 2 am.
I’m sitting in the dark with the possibility of missing out on the USA 🇺🇸 World Cup game, but it’s all good because Brenda sending me a picture of Spaghetti led me to meet someone who I admire for a variety of reasons !
Yes, getting to meet Mr Nester is really, really great, and the spaghetti was too !
The back of the sign reading ” Be Nice ” was icing for the cake 🎂.
Softball capsule #21 belongs to Holly Miller, the young Lady who experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows on the same night 🌙. Side Note 📝 Dad is also a huge part of our day 2 day !
For the first few seasons up at West Virginia Tech University, I had to have a pre-game visit with whoever was our leadoff hitter on game day.
The college version of my announcing a ball game is considerably more amped up and I would tell the person who was going to be the first person to bolt of the bench that he had to do so with a great deal of energy. Because if he didn’t, I would just sound like a Mad Man.
My sister, Sharon, lives outside of St. Louis and is an avid St.Louis Cardinals fan. She was kind enough to secure me an Ozzie bobblehead that looks like the one pictured above. Mine has a sticky note attached that reads Holly Miller !
See 👀, Holly Miller came out of the dugout one night at Cavalier Park and absolutely nailed an Ozzie back flip on the way to Centerfield. Closing in on 50 years of holding a microphone 🎤 and that moment ranks at the top of the list of memories.
Sadly, later that same night, Holly collided with a fellow Lady Cavalier while chasing down a shot to the gap. It was as physical of contact on a softball field that I have witnessed in person.
Miller is as fearless as she is tiny and actually got up and tried to convince Hix / Dad that she wanted to remain in the game. Fortunately, Hix is as smart as he is humble, so they headed to the hospital 🏥 where the broken collarbone was diagnosed.
We were fortunate to have her back this season, and she resumed patrolling 🚓 CF like her Dad did back in his day, even the #3 on her back.
We break into our Softball coverage to say, we see 👀 Michala !!!!!!
Our Morning 🌄 Brew is live from Abingdon High School 🏫 as it’s Spring Jubilee Day for Class 3 !
Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day :
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Have a Blessed Day 🙌😇
Stick around if you are a fan of Diamond 💎 play !
New Kent scores one run 🏃♂️on one hit and leaves two stranded in the top of the 1st inning.
The first FIVE Falcons have reached, and now it’s 3-1 with no outs. New Kent has made a pitching change (#12).
5-1 after 1st inning.
In the adjoining field, it’s the Spotswood Trailblazers versus the Trojans of New Kent. New Kent playing both games at 10am will make it a challenge for their fans. But that’s a good problem to have !!
Trojans retired in order in the top of the second, still 5-1 [10:25]
Abingdon has added two more, thanks to a pair of misques by New Kent. Now 7-1 and with Chloe in the circle 🔵, this one could end early.
End 2nd, 7-1.
The baseball ⚾️ game is 1-1 and already in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Chloe adds two more K’s, now has 6 thru 2 and 1/2. Off to the bottom of the 3rd…
Lauren Baker plays center for Abingdon, and she just pieced together a high light reel in the top of the fourth inning !!!
I will need to circle back to describe all three plays but for now, know that she kept it at 7-1.
Baseball ⚾️ has moved to the bottom of the 6th in less than an hour, still 1-1.
Kendyl Cole with a ground rule double and an RBI to push the lead out to 8-1.
End of 4th, Falcons 8, Trojans 1
Mid 5th, strikeout now at 7…Still 8-1.
Worth noting 📝 that the drive 🚗 down for New Kent was five hours by car..
Both ballgames ended within a moment of each other at 11:16 (Baseball) and 11:17 (Softball ).
New Kent needed all seven innings to eliminate Spotswood 3-1.
Abingdon High closed out New Kent in Softball 11-1 after once again, five straight Falcons reached base in the bottom of the fifth. All five touched home plate, but only three went on the scoreboard.
Scout Summitt sent a rocket 🚀 to the gap in left center and sent the sizeable Falcons crowd home happy !
Back to the efforts of Miss Baker, pictured above.
With the game still in doubt, New Kent batted in the top of the fourth. Ava Brandon sent a shot to the deepest part of the park, and Baker tracked it down on the warning ⚠️ track a few feet in front of me. Next up, Sierra Carter sent a drive to the gap in right center. Baker made a great stab at the ball but it bounced out of her glove for a double.
One batter later, with Carter standing on third base. a semi-deep fly ball made its way into her glove, and Baker fired a laser to catcher Capri Firtz for an inning ending double play !
Abingdon High is carrying our torch 🔦 for Region C and they did us proud 👏.
Here, Broadway won a thriller, 1-0 over Fauquier.
Tomorrow, it will be the defending champion 🏆 versus the home standing undefeated….
Through the eyes of a Greater Fool 