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Folks know I get around. They also know that while on my travels I like to eat.
Well, sometimes, overeat, as witnessed by the spare tire hanging around my middle.
Since work regularly takes me to several counties in the greater Knoxville area, I’ve had an opportunity to sample many a restaurant’s fare.
As not to cut into Bethel Poston’s “Out to Lunch” feature, I won’t name any names.
Let’s just say there’s plenty of good places to chow down here and around here.

It was the glow that woke me up.
One glance at the closed curtain, anther at the clock, and I knew what was outside: Snow and plenty of it.
So around 3:30 a.m. Monday, I sat up in bed, threw back the curtain and watched snow pour like rain from the sky.
It had already piled up.
The little whirligig duck across the street at Joe and Lois Longmire’s carried a several-inch load of snow on its back.
Its little wings spun wildly.

Several years ago my wife, Carol, and I qualified for a free trip to England and Ireland by buying a large quantity of appliances to sell at our Poston Furniture & Appliance stores.
I like to say we won the trip, but my dad said, “You paid for it in the cost of washers, ranges and refrigerators.”
(We decided to lower our selling prices in order to sell enough to qualify.)
In our travels, after seeing many recognized attractions, we always left the tourist crowd and mixed with the locals.

Gentle reader, we hope that you had happy and healthy holidays and have entered the New Year with a good attitude and prosperous prospects for this to be a good year.
As stated in our notes for the last two weeks, we anticipated that several things would happen during the interval since our last opinion column, and sure enough thus it was, so here are some of our thoughts on events of the last month:
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