The year that was 2006 ends at midnight ending our second full year in Floyd County.
Officially, we became fulltime residents on December 1, 2004, when we closed on the purchase of our home here, ending five days of homelessness caused by closing on the sale of our condo in Arlington.
I’m sorry but I can’t share the doom and gloom that die-hard fans of the too often overrated Virginia Tech football team feel this morning after the Hokies fell to the Georgia Bulldogs 31-24 in the Chick Fil-a Bowl Saturday night in Atlanta.
Friday night’s Floyd County High School varsity girls’ basketball game with Christiansburg was postponed because coach Alan Cantrell’s four-year-old grandson went into emergency surgery that afternoon for a brain tumor.
Varsity boys’ coach Brian Harmon’s son, also four, faced surgery this week — also for a brain tumor.
Two four year olds from families of two basketball coaches at the same school in a county of 15,000 people. Anyone want to figure the odds on that?
If anyone has information on the condition of either child, please let us know.
We stopped off at Home Depot in Christiansburg for some items Thursday and then headed over to the nearby Target store. I saw the sky as soon as I stepped out of the car. In photography, we call this a "wow moment," the brief instance when the setting sun provides the right touch of light and color to the sky. I had just enough time to grab my camera and crank off two shots before the sun dipped further below the horizon and the moment was gone.
A delivery man interrupted our post-Christmas sleep-in this morning, trying to deliver an Epson printer that, I suppose, should have arrived before the holidays.
Only problem was..it wasn’t ours. He wanted 199 Greenbriar — the Howerys — at the other end of our private road. I sent him on his way and headed for the coffee pot.
I loaded trash from the Christmas wrappings into the Liberty Monday night so, coffee in hand, I headed for the dumpsters on Franklin Pike. All overflowed with others’ Christmas trash so I stuffed our bags into the mix and headed back home.