...to all my fellow Gator Too Hot addicts! May we buck horns ingloriously this coming year, and live to usher in another one, next year.
Happy New Year! Just rubbed the Boston Butt to sit over night and ready to fire the smoker in the morning. Burned through a couple of smokers in the past and have not smoked in a while due to timing with life. But have a brand new one to break in later…
Just put my college aged kids to bed. What a wonderful time. Cigars, Bombay Sapphire martinis, rum n cokes... talking life and love, and everything in between. Good damn stuff. Liking how this '25 is looking. Fixin to pray some--commiserate with our Lord and savior, and perhaps welcome the sun, as part of the welcoming the new year... God bless... cheers, and, as always--implicit in every post... GO GATORS!!
Our one and only New Years Eve party that we hosted in our home was 2000.. We have a fairly large home with a pool and a huge outdoor living space and we had upwards of 75 people. We had driven to Tennesee to buy real fireworks. I spent $1000 on fireworks in the fall of 1999. I found I could buy some sweet corn in Oklahoma until around Dec 10, so after finding a farmer who would sell me 6 crates of corn, I hopped in my 1998 F150 and drove to his place. I had large coolers that would hold 2 crates each(about 120 ears) and packed the corn in ice and made it back to Clermont, round trip in 3.5 days. I blanched the corn still in the husk and then froze it. I have 2 corn cookers and we had lots of hot sweet corn with our meal. I was selling frozen cocktail mix in those days and we had a walkin freezer at our depot and my boss allowed me to put in there until the party, as long as he was invited-lol. My wife smoked a lot of pork butts and each couple was asked to bring a dish ( we gave out the assigned sides, so that we did not end up with nothing but desserts and that actually worked well). It was a helluva shindig. People still talk about the food and the fireworks. However, the clean up was a beast even though we actually had about 10 people show up the next day to help us clean up. It was fun, but a ton of work. I thought about doing it again the next year but the Mrs told me hell no.
I was talking with some friends last night and it is hard to imagine it has been 25 years since Y2K, and the economic collapse that would happen when all of the computers quit working on 1/1/2000.
