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What’s for breakfast at your house?
Jul 31, 2007
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, July 31st.
When you get up as early as we do on the Morning Edition, the “breakfast” hours come several hours into your day. So while most folks are eating their bagels and omelets, their “Wheaties” and “Pop Tarts”, the morning crew at WJHL is chowing down on food that might just turn your stomach.
If it’s a warmed up chalupa from Taco Bell, it must be 7:30am.
For Rob, it’s a nuked frozen dinner - usually something with chicken that claims to be healthy - and a banana.
Today, I’m eating a cucumber for breakfast. Someone brought in a bag full from their garden and left it in the newsroom. To that person, I say THANK YOU… and GOOD CUKES!
Does your breakfast fare fall outside the realm of “the ordinary”? Share your strange breakfast picks that don’t seem strange to you.
Thanks!
“Freedom” premiers in Abingdon
Jul 30, 2007
Good morning. It’s Monday, July 30th.
Today, the new move “Freedom” premiers in Abingdon, Virginia.
It won’t come close to “The Simpson’s” in box-office bankroll, But it will re-tell one of the true stories from the Tri-Cities Region’s Civil War past. The movie was shot locally, and it features local professional actors and re-enactors.
“Freedom” is the creation of one of the region’s “home-grown” artists. Rick McVey’s face and voice have been on local broadcasts and stages for decades. Now, he’s created a movie which, last week, he told me was a long-time dream come true.
We wish Rick and the entire “Freedom” cast the very best. I plan to include a viewing of the movie in my Virginia Highlands Festival excursion later in the week. Hopefully, you will too.
For more on “Freedom”, go to http://www.mcmultimedia.com .
Posted by Josh Smith We have a winner!
Jul 27, 2007
Congratulations to Darrell Willocks of Johnson City.
His name was drawn in our “Treasure This Summer” Cruise giveaway. Darrell won a cruise for two to the Caribbean.
Thanks to Grindstaff Automotive and McDonald’s for sponsoring our drawing.
Uh oh… here comes Oscar
Jul 27, 2007
Good morning. It’s Friday, July 27th.
Have you heard about Oscar the cat?
He’s the resident feline at a Rhode Island nursing home.
The doctors and nurses there swear it’s true; when Oscar curls up on a patient’s bed, the patient is usually just days away from death.
Oscar’s story has made national and international news.
Here on the Morning Edition, we couldn’t help but wonder if people are avoiding Oscar these days, if they’re walking to the other side of the hall as the little kitty lumbers by.
So what do you think? Is Oscar just one lucky dog...um, cat? Or do animals have the ability to sense things, a perceptive ability that exceeds humans’?
Share your opinion and your story.
Posted by Josh Smith Hangin’ out in the rain….
Jul 26, 2007
Good morning.
It’s Thursday, July 26th.
Yesterday, I took a walk in the rain.
I have to admit, a few times I felt a bit silly. You’ve heard the saying, “he hasn’t the sense to get out of the rain.”
Still, when a three year old asks, “Daddy, can I catch a drop on my tongue?” Well, you have to say yes.
We had a little company in the rain. This was just part of a huge flock of Canadian geese enjoying the wet green grass near the Covered Bridge in downtown Elizabethton.
Ever go for a walk in the rain?
Posted by Josh Smith 
