Author: Emily Welker

Melinda’s Garden: Summer-Blooming Shrubs

There's still one day left!

Summer 2018 is almost gone, as the first day of fall is Saturday. But in honor of the final few hours of the warmest season of the year, we’re bringing you some tips on some little-known summer-blooming beauties you can plant in your yard to add color and interest when many early-blooming perennials have petered out for the season. Let…

Tech Tip Today: TV Tech

There's more to offer than ever before.

Here at the Morning Show, we’re all about seeking out the top tech in TVs. After all, we want you to watch us as much as possible, and great TVs are a great way to do that. Francie Black will walk you through all the best TV tips to be had in this week’s Tech Tip Today. Categories: Morning –…

LIVE: Pet Connection: Meet Boots

You can bet your boots he's a lot of fun.

As charming as the cartoon character was named for, Boots — or Puss in Boots, as most of us know the Spanish-accented character from the “Shrek” movies — visited the KVRR Morning Show studios for a live chat with the Morning Show’s Emily Welker and Diamond in the Ruff volunteer Ryan Keel. Boots is a roughly five-month-old kitten found wandering…

App of the Week: Totsie Baby Photo Editor

Each moment you've captured is precious. If only you had the time to organize them.

Raising kids is a lot of fun. Each day your child does something new, something exciting, something cute or funny or just so silly you have to record it on camera. The problem is, there are so many of them they tend to blur together. It’s probably the sleep deprivation. Here’s a way you can organize all those delightful little…

Thinking Green: Checking Ducts

It's cooling down out there. Time to button up your jacket -- and the house.

For the first time in a long time, you probably felt it was chilly outside this morning. Time to bundle up against the wind, and button up the house against drafts, too. Danny Lipford shows you how to keep your house warm for cool-weather season — and environmentally friendly — in this week’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features

Ask Danny: Cracks in Walls

Don't let your composure crack. Fix the cracks in your walls yourself.

You’ve probably noticed between last year’s dry weather and this year’s return of some rains that it’s wreaking a bit of havoc on your home’s walls. And when shifts in the soil moisture are inevitable, cracks in your walls can show up. But do you know the difference between a minor cosmetic problem and a major issue with your home? Danny…

Melinda’s Garden: Coffee Grounds

The fuel for your morning can kick-start your garden plants, too.

If you’re anything like us on the Morning Show, then coffee is the entire reason your morning — or maybe your whole day — gets going. Turns out it can do the same thing for your garden plantings, too. Check out Melinda Myers’ tips on how your used coffee grounds can give a jolt to your plants in this week’s…

Tech Tip Today: Who Unfollowed Me

Avoid the awkward conversation. Do some snooping instead.

It’s always an awkward thing, trying to discreetly figure out who’s seeing your posts on social media and who’s been left in the dark. Find out if they maybe just haven’t checked in yet, or if they dropped you like a hot potato, in this week’s Tech Tip Today with Francie Black. Categories: Morning – Features

LIVE: Dancing with the Doctors

Partner up with Sanford docs and help put a stop to substance abuse.

It’s a nighttime event coming up you’re sure to want to put on your pas-de-deux list. Dancing with the Doctors is coming up next Tuesday, September 18th, and it couldn’t come in a more timely fashion. Fargo police just announced that the number of overdoses, including one fatality, in the last 6 weeks is equal to the total number they’ve…

App of the Wee: Oscar Senior

Senioritis isn't just for high school anymore.

Call it senioritis for the retired set. You probably have an older friend or maybe a relative who’s  coming to the smartphone game relatively late and just isn’t that interested in adopting the newer technology. They may be slacking on their social media skills. But, dang it, you want your Grandma to be able to share her amazing videos of…