Did you know that the Timberlin Creek Twins now made it nationally? Good Morning America visited TCE on Friday and Today. Marysol Castro of GMA did a live broadcast from TCE with the twins. The story is available on the GMA website. See the video "Seeing Double, 34 times over".
http://abcnews.go.com/gma
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Twins at Timberlin Creek Elementary School
Did you know that there are 31 sets of twins at Timberlin Creek. Plus a set of quintuplets. This remarkable information recently came to light. As a result, the TCE multiples were recently featured in the news. First the St. Augustine Record ran a feature article last Sunday listing out all of the kids. Here is a link to this article... http://staugustine.com/stories/090907/news_4819748.shtml
Then First Coast News jumped on the band wagon and ran a short segment during the 5:30 news this past week. The article and video can be found here...
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=91241
Here are to the Twins and Quintuplets at TCE!
Then First Coast News jumped on the band wagon and ran a short segment during the 5:30 news this past week. The article and video can be found here...
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/news-article.aspx?storyid=91241
Here are to the Twins and Quintuplets at TCE!
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Race Track Road Widening
As many of you have probably have seen, Race Track Road is being widened to handle the volume of traffic headed to/from US1. This should be a welcome relief for many of the people in JCP.
But what about the backlog at US1 from Race Track? I have often been stuck in that backup for some time. Not sure how much of a help it will be, but there will be a new connector that will connect Race Track Road with St. Augustine Rd. Bartram Park Blvd. will run from Race Track Rd up to St. Augustine Rd. once the widening project has been completed. This should help out a lot of people as they will head up that way to get to I95. This should also benefit Bartram Springs residents as it gives them another option for going north. Of course the ideal would have been an entrance / exit at Race Track Rd for I95 but from what I've heard, the county / FDOT doesn't believe that there is enough room to add the ramps.
If you want to read more, click on this link to go to the St Johns Sun... http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/090807/nes_197571823.shtml
But what about the backlog at US1 from Race Track? I have often been stuck in that backup for some time. Not sure how much of a help it will be, but there will be a new connector that will connect Race Track Road with St. Augustine Rd. Bartram Park Blvd. will run from Race Track Rd up to St. Augustine Rd. once the widening project has been completed. This should help out a lot of people as they will head up that way to get to I95. This should also benefit Bartram Springs residents as it gives them another option for going north. Of course the ideal would have been an entrance / exit at Race Track Rd for I95 but from what I've heard, the county / FDOT doesn't believe that there is enough room to add the ramps.
If you want to read more, click on this link to go to the St Johns Sun... http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/090807/nes_197571823.shtml
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Dinner @ Gaya
As you probably know, Gaya opened quite a while ago. Until today, I haven't had an opportunity to visit the Japanese Steak & Sushi restaurant. But I finally got there today. As with most teppanyaki places, it came with the usual. Our meal started with the typical mushroom soup followed by the ginger salad. We also ordered some sushi and edamame. My wife and I each ordered the steak and scallops. Two of my kids ordered the steak and the other one ordered the shrimp.
The sushi was very good. I ordered a couple of pieces of maguro (tuna) while the rest of the family enjoyed some California roll. The only problem was that they had the high sodium soy sauce at the table. I've grown accustomed to the low sodium variety. Surprisingly, it took a long time for the edamame to arrive.
Our chef did the typical show on. He lit the table on fire, he created the volcano which then turned into a train. He also did several other kid favorite tricks.
Overall, I thought that we had a very good meal at a decent price. It's probably as good as most of the other Japanese steak houses. I'd say give it a try.
The sushi was very good. I ordered a couple of pieces of maguro (tuna) while the rest of the family enjoyed some California roll. The only problem was that they had the high sodium soy sauce at the table. I've grown accustomed to the low sodium variety. Surprisingly, it took a long time for the edamame to arrive.
Our chef did the typical show on. He lit the table on fire, he created the volcano which then turned into a train. He also did several other kid favorite tricks.
Overall, I thought that we had a very good meal at a decent price. It's probably as good as most of the other Japanese steak houses. I'd say give it a try.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Good Bye Byron
It's official. The Jaguars released Byron.
I've never been much of a Byron Leftwich fan. While I give him credit for being able to stand in the pocket and take a hit and get right back up. I just didn't think that he was ever that sharp with his passes and showed very little touch.
Too many times it appeared that he had to wind up for even short screen passes. While he kept his interceptions down, he appeared to be content with throwing a ball away vs. being able to find the open receiver. And when you rifle the ball into your receiver, it makes it difficult to hang on to the ball especially when you are about to take a big hit. Not that I think that the receivers that he has to work with has been very good. Just about all of them seem to have stone hands.
Long term, I don't think David Garrard will be the man to lead Jacksonville to a championship. What really disappoints me is that JAX didn't even try to improve themselves during the draft or through free agency. Brady Quinn appears to be the real deal (against 3rd stringers). He will probably be starting by week 4 up in Cleveland.
There are some rumor talks about Mark Brunell coming back to the Jaguars. While I think we could use a good veteran on the bench to help coach David and Quinn Gray mature, I would rather look more long term.
Well good luck to all of us Jaguar fans. I think the offense is improved with Garrard behind center as long as he doesn't try to do too much. It cost us last year. He has looked so much better this year. Hopefully he is maturing much the same way that we had hoped that Byron would.
Until next time...
I've never been much of a Byron Leftwich fan. While I give him credit for being able to stand in the pocket and take a hit and get right back up. I just didn't think that he was ever that sharp with his passes and showed very little touch.
Too many times it appeared that he had to wind up for even short screen passes. While he kept his interceptions down, he appeared to be content with throwing a ball away vs. being able to find the open receiver. And when you rifle the ball into your receiver, it makes it difficult to hang on to the ball especially when you are about to take a big hit. Not that I think that the receivers that he has to work with has been very good. Just about all of them seem to have stone hands.
Long term, I don't think David Garrard will be the man to lead Jacksonville to a championship. What really disappoints me is that JAX didn't even try to improve themselves during the draft or through free agency. Brady Quinn appears to be the real deal (against 3rd stringers). He will probably be starting by week 4 up in Cleveland.
There are some rumor talks about Mark Brunell coming back to the Jaguars. While I think we could use a good veteran on the bench to help coach David and Quinn Gray mature, I would rather look more long term.
Well good luck to all of us Jaguar fans. I think the offense is improved with Garrard behind center as long as he doesn't try to do too much. It cost us last year. He has looked so much better this year. Hopefully he is maturing much the same way that we had hoped that Byron would.
Until next time...
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