How do you get to compete in an event as famous as the Marion Harris Invitational?
First, there are some rules one has to follow…
#1 – Be at a golf ⛳️ course and have nobody to play gold with.
#2 – You are required to think about Marion Harris on each of the 18 holes.
#3 – You must record a minimum of 5,000 steps during the round.
#4 – You must use EVERY club in your bag, at least once !
#5 – You score one point for every hole that you make par. Double that if you make a 🐦🐦⬛🦜
Chasing birdies
You win 🏆 only if you follow all of the rules listed above, and when you’re finished, drive 🚗 non-stop to the closest McDonald’s and purchase a World Cup Meal !
This Week !!!12-7 victory for Good over Evil, fueled by a very strong 💪 finish !How fast 🏃♂️ did I get to McDonald’s?
Blue Angeles FAST!
What does 150 minutes of non-stop thought process 🤔 about Marion Harris get you ?
Enough for three serious Soccer ⚽️ stories that I will get to shortly, once I figure out who’s on my new Cup 🥤.
If the rules sound to complicated, plan B is have friends to play golf ⛳️ with.
The photo 📸 above comes from Disney when you ask for a cartoon castle 🏰.
The second photo shows you the folks that the castle belongs to at this time. Not evil people, because they have proud parents too. Glenvar Boys soccer ⚽️ just captured their fourth straight Class 2 State Championship.
The JV Highlanders lit up the Commonwealth as well with a couple of exceptions. They just completed their season at 16-0-1 and dump trucked most of their opponents along the way.
See, Jeremy Puckett is a next level Big Game Hunter, and he had a season to back it up !
The trip to Glenvar ended in a 6-4 setback ( April 6th). Why is that worth writing ✍️ about ? Glenvar goals allowed in the 2025-2026 season were in SINGLE DIGITS, and four came in just one match.
Fast forward to the night 🌙 when the Highlanders invaded The Hill, and you will see 👀 a final score of 2-1.
82-9 was the combined score for Glenvar this season, and five of the nine came from our Cavaliers. Pull out the 8-5 score versus Carroll County, and you have 74-4.
Dan Puckett left me with one resounding thought last week when our paths crossed. ” Most folks only have one sport that they truly follow.” I know that is true but it’s fun to acknowledge all of the horses 🐎 in the race 🏁!
Puckett might be the coyote that is chasing the Road Runner, but I’m sure that he is getting closer, but the minute !
We wear their logo on our hats at West Virginia Tech University, so point one goes to the Mountaineers.
But, being that the Atlantic Coast Conference is fighting to stay relevant in a number of sports, including baseball, it’s hard not to want the Tar Heels to defend our honors.
Being that I am watching 👀 the game outside of New Bern, North Carolina, tie goes to The Heels. The winner of this game jumps firmly into the driver’s seat 💺 in regards to reaching the Championship series.
The game has moved to the top of the 7th inning and remains knotted at 2-2. UNC jumped out to an early lead, and WVU has answered back with single runs.
Game 2 tonight is the polar opposite of the opener between Troy and Ole Miss. Troy sent the Rebels packing by winning a game(12-8) that often resembled a Church League softball game. Troy and West Virginia are both enjoying their initial trips to the College Baseball version of the Promised Land.
The art of borrowing a photo shows the view of the family for the game. No one should be shocked by the fact that our first family arrived on the early side.
Does a game feel different when you are watching on television 📺 and you know someone who is watching from the stands ? It does for me, and the fun includes trying hard to pick them out of crowd.
Omaha and Oklahoma City are both destinations for many that in regards to college diamonds 💎 but the real fun begins with just how creative one can get in regards to fun and food away from the park ???
What a great play by the WVU catcher on the sac bunt attempt in the bottom of the 7th. Two oops defensively by WVU have set the table for the Tar Heels. Never want to see a game decided by an error. Just like that, Heels have a 2-run triple.
Trip number one involved little children who probably have minimal to zero memory of it, and it was at the old ballpark.
The second time around took place back in 2011, and Head Coach Alan Knight was along for the ride. Great memories, which included an impromptu trip up to South Dakota for a round of golf ⛳️. Why, because I told him that if we did, he would have a story to tell when he returned to Page County because not everyone knows where South Dakota is on a map…..
Just saw Eric Church again. He looks much happier now that the score is 5-2!
DeHaven has been around the game of baseball ⚾️ his entire life. I’m excited about the fact that he is out enjoying the show, and he has his family with him ! It made watching the game a little more fun, and if he were to end up in South Dakota, he might run into Tammy Tobler!
I feel better now because his Mamma couldn’t spot them either.
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 🎂.
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.
The road less traveled ! 