Kathy V

Mom to two successful daughters ~ loves traveling the world ~ Hoosiers/Tigers/Caps fan ~ IT geek ~ lover of margaritas, pisco & chocolate! ;-)

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@minilauren These were taken at “the hole in the mountain” we used to pass through on the way to IN. 😳

[Meteorologist Erick Kirchner @WeatherFixErick]

My best daytime lightning photography experience!

Taken on Sideling Hill near Hancock, MD at the I-68 WB Rest Area this afternoon (7-4-26)

@LiveStormChaser @capitalweather @MatthewCappucci @denysk02 @sambrandt99 @JackRuddenWX @spann @aaronjayjack @forecaster25 @PAweatherPhoto

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@minilauren

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

The day 3 Japan National Team players faced 100 elementary school kids at the exact same time 😂

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@minilauren I’m sitting in the dark, too. Dominion is also having a “Dominion Energy Smart Thermostat Rewards Event” from 4pm-7pm, so I’m glad I pre-cooled.

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@minilauren Reminds me of a particular N*Sync concert at RFK Stadium oh so many years ago … horrible heat, Metro “metering”, and 45,000 of our closest teenaged girl friends. Ugh. 😩🥵

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@iuman1960 ⚽️

[TJ Manotoc @tjmanotoc]

I started dying when I saw how many goalies the kiddos had 😂

But this is brilliant!

3 Japanese National Team players vs 100 elementary school kids!

So fun!

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@DaltonRoss Have you considered sharing this with Mark Cuban, with the hope that maybe he could do something about the drug price through his Cost Plus Drugs?

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@tigers Done x5 every voting day so far!

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

Need y'all ‼️

Repost and reply with your Tigers ballot for a chance to win a signed Kevin McGonigle baseball

Vote 5x per day 🗳️ https://t.co/JrsIBeU1cG

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@iuman1960 This is cool!

[Rudy Willingham @RudyWillingham]

130 paper cutouts of OG Anunoby’s tip-in for the New York Knicks (aka the greatest play in NBA Finals history )

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@iuman1960 Looks like you’d better wander up to the Shenandoah NP before the end of the month so you can get your special stamp!

[British Embassy Washington @UKinUSA]

A special stamp for a special visit. 🌲🇬🇧🇺🇸

To mark the State Visit of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla, visitors to Dickey Ridge Visitor's Center in @ShenandoahNPS can stamp their National Park passports with a specially commissioned UK State Visit stamp throughout the month of May.

A small but meaningful way to remember a visit that celebrates the American people, the great outdoors, and the enduring friendship between the United Kingdom and the United States.

@SecretaryBurgum @NatlParkService

#GreaterTogether #America250 #StateVisit2026

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@minilauren

[Joe Gould @reporterjoe]

Maryland officials want to know why the Pentagon kept them in the dark for weeks about a massive fuel leak at Andrews via @anna_c_kramer https://t.co/bYg2thepQ9

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@iuman1960

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you pitched this as a screenplay, every studio would reject it for being too on-the-nose.

Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit ranked 2,149th in his high school class. Zero FBS scholarship offers. Not one. He walked on at Cal, fought for a starting job, transferred to Indiana for his senior year, then led them to 16-0 and the first national title in school history. Heisman, Walter Camp, Maxwell, Davey O'Brien, Manning, Big Ten MVP. 41 TDs, 72% completion, 8-to-0 TD-to-INT ratio in the playoffs.

The Raiders took him #1 overall Thursday night. $54.56M fully guaranteed. Only the third player ever to win the Heisman, win a national championship, and go first overall the next spring. Burrow. Newton. Mendoza.

Then he skipped Pittsburgh.

The biggest stage in football, the moment every kid imagines from the second they pick up a ball, and Fernando watched the call from his living room in Florida because his mom Elsa is in a wheelchair and the travel is hard for her. She was diagnosed with MS when he was 4. She wrote a letter to her sons in The Players Tribune in 2015 promising the disease "won't affect us in the ways that matter."

The part nobody talks about: while every other top pick was on stage, Fernando announced the Mendoza Family Fund the same day. $500K personal donation to the National MS Society. Committed to raising $1M over three years. He hasn't taken an NFL snap and he's already given more to a cause than most players donate in a full career.

He and his brother Alberto have already raised $360K through the Mendoza Bros. Burger at BuffaLouie's in Bloomington. At Christmas, he handed four families dealing with MS $10,000 each for an Adidas shopping spree.

Both his parents are children of Cuban refugees who fled Castro. His dad rowed at Brown, won a Junior World Championship in 1987, and played high school football in Miami next to a teammate named Mario Cristobal. Fernando beat his dad's old teammate in the national championship game in January.

Every athlete talks about playing for their family. Fernando actually did it.

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@minilauren Sad … ☹️

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@iuman1960 Tell Carrie to be careful the next time she goes fishing! 😳😱

[Branch Floridian @JackLinFLL]

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!!

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@gtconway3d Hypothetical: if we successfully removed țrump via the 25A, could he then use that to argue that he’s not competent to stand trial when the deluge of lawsuits start pouring in after he’s gone?

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@andydirks12 @jasonbenetti Why do players have the sponsor and Tiger head patches on different arms on the new alternative jerseys? Is it based on which side they hit from? Thanks!!

#raindelayquestions

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@daniellabruce_ @jasonbenetti Inquiring minds want to know … Why are the sponsor and Tiger head patches on different sleeves on these awesome alternate jerseys? (See Tork and Flaherty vs McGonigle and McKinstry)

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@minilauren Annoying, for sure. But probably still way better than the noise my carpet install is making. 😩

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@iuman1960 Andy on his coffee table. 😅

[Andy Dirks @andydirks12]

One baseball tip a day until @tigers home opener. #11 Mound presence

[Kathy V @landasmoo]

@iuman1960

[Andy Dirks @andydirks12]

One baseball tip a day until the @tigers home opener. #7 picking up a ball that isn’t moving.