New Media from a Journalism Veteran
Could Have Been Worse
“We seem to have a problem in the kitchen,†Amy said. “There’s a bulge under the linoleum.â€
Uh-oh.
I stepped on the section of flooring and felt it give. Grabbed a flashlight and headed for the crawlspace under the house. As soon as opened the door that led from the garage I heard water dripping on the plastic that covers the dirt floor the crawlspace.
Uh-oh, uh-oh.
Could Be a Long Year
Coaches use pre-season scrimmages to pull a team together and discover weaknesses. Based on Floyd County High School’s scrimmage with Hidden Vallen Friday night, the coaches have a lot of work ahead.
Botched handoffs (above) resulting in turnovers, poor tackling, lackluster blocking and an inability to move the ball down the field jinxed the Buffaloes throughout the scrimmage.
Something New
In today’s “As if you didn’t have enough to do” category, we announce the relaunching of FloydCounty.Com as a multimedia web site on September 1, 2005.
FloydCounty.Com will be a showcase not only for our photography and video work on the county, but I hope other writers, artists and photographers will contribute as well. We plan expanding coverage of the county’s music scene, photo eassays and news about the community. We plan to produce a regular “web cast” video news show on the site along with other features.
Getting to the Seat of the Problem
About half of the 43,000 miles on my 2000 Jeep Wrangler have been off-road, bouncing over rocks, logs and ruts or blasting through creeks and mudholes. Such pounding takes its toll on various components, including the driver’s seat which had multiple tears in the fabric.
Snakes in the Grass
Report from the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. The two snakes they bagged from the marshy area around our stream were a copperhead and a mountain rattlesnake. Both poisonous but neither the water mocassin I spotted and photographed earlier. They continue to maintain their position that water mocassins aren’t found in the mountains of Virginia. Too bad they didn’t go upstream as far as our neighbor’s pond because that’s where he and I believe the snake(s) live.
Feline Wars
It started out as a rescue mission. My sister’s daughter, forced to make a lifestyle choice between boyfriend and cat, needed a new home for her eight-month-old orange tabby called Sherbert. Amy, who never met a kitten she didn’t want, batted her eyes brought the little bundle of purring fur out onto my mother’s porch.
I didn’t stand a chance.
The Guv Comes to Town
Floyd may be named after a former governor of the Old Dominion but it has never been a stop for occupants of the state’s top job. So Mark Warner coming to town Wednesday was a big deal and both the town and the governor made the most of the photo op.
The Wall
I’m setting up a video section of Blue Ridge Muse and reformatting both our current and older video work into the new Macromedia Flash Streaming Video format, which loads faster and runs better on both slow and fast Internet connections.
This 2002 documentary on the Traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be part of the new section. Please feel free to view.
