Trenton Newman and family celebrate a second place finish at the Elk Creek Dragway !!!
Is there anything that the college freshman to be cannot do ???
Loving ❤️ the logo on the front of the car and the folks who make up Team Newman !!
Welcome 🙏 to the Coast of Carolina !
The only drawback to the drive to the coast was the stretch where the temperature 🌡reached triple digits.
29-0 with an equal amount of pitching, defense, and hitting – Abingdon represented our Region in grand style !
Broadway entered the game with the chance to ” Run it Back ” as the kids say. The defending Champs 🏆 fell short but had an impressive run from start to finish.
King 🤴 William was just doing what they do in their 14-4 victory in Class 2. The team fell to Central – Woodstock in the title game last year. KWHS has been playing above the bar softball for quite some time.
High School 🏫 Softball is now officially in the books 📚. How many days until we start it again ?
Other things that were on the radar included Head Coach Cindy Edwards hosting her Volleyball 🏐 Bingo Night back on The Hill and Dakota Walls was looking to race 🏁 in Hickory, NC tonight.
Romans 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
There are plenty of storylines to follow once the opening drive 🚗 is in the Books 📚
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 🎂.
The road less traveled ! 