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The lens on my camera is not wide enough to capture the entire group, but this is 3/4 of this morning's crew... my spot is right next to the sweet little red-head in foreground ;-)

First Regular-Season Game

Linda Richardson came through again with a few snap-shots of today's season-opening 1-1 tie vs. Mercer...

TK got lots of playing time and came close to ending the game in sudden-victory overtime with a near-post header with two-minutes on the clock.

Read the article on the UNC-Asheville website at: http://www.uncabulldogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=19200&ATCLID=205251292

First Day of Classes

Will shared this picture taken as he left to begin his college studies at Jacksonville University this morning!

Others attending their first classes of the school year included his brother Nathan (@UNF) and step-brother Tim (UNC-Asheville)

It was also Grace's first day of classes on JWJ's new campus! I have Open House tomorrow night, so BIG week all around ...the reward at the end of which is that Kara will be in Florida for the weekend!

First Period

This is the bunch that greets me at 7:20 every morning... My only Spanish I class this year!

TK's 1st Goal of the Season

Must've been quite a shot... the article on the UNC-Asheville website described it as a 25-yarder and the game-winner in a 2-1 pre-season victory over conference foe Elon!

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Day Two

Thought I'd catch my 6th period students in their assigned seats...

First Day of School

Great start to the year... Here's a look at my smallest class; there are 15 in the 2nd period class roll, but one didn't find it in time to be in the picture...

Fourth period is closer to capacity (25)...

...and here's a look at the 5th period bunch; we meet for 25 minutes, break for lunch and then do another 25 M-F!

I'll give you a look at 1st & 6th tomorrow...

Pre-Planning

Got a surprise the second day of pre-planning... the Principal assigned me a new classroom! It's not much to look at yet, but the chance to give up "floating" is pretty exciting... Until now, Room 123 has been the domain of the Driver's Ed teacher, the most recent victim of Clay County budget-cuts. I'll find a way to live with the 21 shrink-wrapped simulators wired into "my" new base of operations, and post a better picture next week!

Nathan's Birthday

Nathan celebrated his 21st birthday wrapping up a college retreat in Pigeon Forge, TN... he's pictured (third from left) braving the whitewater of the Ocoee river earlier this week.

It's back to school in a week for his junior year at UNF, working on a double or triple major in English, Psychology and/or International Business...

50

It's not only the age of our current Commander-in-Chief (as of last Thursday)...
Today, it's the exact number of days Grace and I have been married!
Today also brings our "Honeymoon Summer" to a screeching halt with teacher pre-planning at Fleming Island High starting up tomorrow!

Duval County teachers get another six days...

Hairspray

Grace and I got the perfect seats to see Will play his part (Guitar 1) in the orchestra pit for this summer's performance!

Brother & Sister

Kara wanted to see her little brother once more before he started back into soccer (today) and his second year of classes at UNCA (August 22nd)... so she and a group of her friends drove the 3 1/2 hours to Asheville and took him out on one of the trails... at my request Tim sent this picture:TK reports that the first "Captain's Practice" was brutal today, and that tomorrow will be even worse... 5-6 miles of hills and more time in the torture-chamber (weight room)!

Big News!

In Spanish, the saying is “más vale tarde que nunca”...
We were 13 days late celebrating Bonnie's 25th birthday, but the fact that she is "with child" made our dinner at Smokey Bones doubly-celebratory... Grace and I are now busy trying to come up with "grandparent names" for ourselves!Due date: January 31st, 2012