I’m still having a grand time here in the mountains with the grandchildren and their mothers. This blog is supposed to be about sewing so I’m focusing on game day projects. The earlier post about football brought even more football fans out of the woodwork, so I hope those of you who are not big fans will indulge me as I pursue one of my favorite subjects.
Today was Game Day for the Gators and most other college football teams. With a noon kickoff on the schedule, we donned our Gator gear, fed the children an early lunch, set out our snack food and hunkered down for the game. Robert was clad in the new Gator shirt I embroidered for him, while Alastair wore one of Cousin Robert’s hand-me-down Florida warm up suits.
Laurel, bless her sweet little heart, gracefully took the news that I had not managed to embroider a new game day shirt for her. Just before kickoff, she came out of her bedroom wearing one of her mama’s. She refused to watch the game without “suiting up”!
2 year-old Alysha with her aunt, recent UF graduate
It was incredibly hot in The Swamp today, around 103 at half time. The announcers said it was the hottest weather ever for a Gator home game.  Two year old Alysha, our godchild’s daughter, was at her first game with grandparents and Aunt Anna. She is wearing the shirt I embroidered for her last week. It’s tough being a baby Gator, but I’m sure she drank her weight in lemonade and spent a lot of time in the protective shade of the stands.
While we watched the game here in a cool 70 degrees, Bob and Ryan were also at the game. We all enjoyed the game and the win. But on game day, there is a loser in every game and no one wants their team to be that loser.
Just yesterday, a man and his crew came to replace the gutters on the cabin. Both our car and the little utility trailer are clearly marked as Gator vehicles. He smiled and said, “I’m an FSU Seminole (Gator arch rivals). If I had known you were Gators, I would have charged you more.”
I smiled and replied, “If I had known you were a ‘Nole, I would have hired someone else.” I was joking but I’m not sure that he was.   The Seminoles lost today.
Go Gators! Go SEC!
