Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

It has been thunderstorms all day here today. That made supper an easier call. Tonight I’ve got a fresh pot of chili simmering on the stove.

We like it served over white rice and topped with Sargento sharp shredded cheddar.

Sipping on a tumbler of Elijah Craig while Ms. Jan enjoys her chilled wine.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

That’ll be real good!

 

We will be doing round #2 on the pot of chili (which was mighty good last night) with just a slight change—

Since we’ve had heavy thunderstorms here again today it’s going to be chili-cheese dogs, ice cold longnecks, and chilled wine. We’ll act like we’re at the ballpark while we watch the game on TV.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

@GatorLurker—

We salute you! Well done!

 

Ramen noodles and s'mores.

 

Pretty much speechless right here...

 

God bless the Gulf of Mexico—tonight I’ll be grilling fresh grouper and shrimp. Baked potatoes will be on the top rack. Salt, coarse black pepper and Old Bay’s seasoning with melted real butter, lemon juice, and crushed garlic to mop on while grilling.

A fresh Caesar salad will be the other side.

Ice cold longnecks and chilled wine are available on the back porch.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Lurk, is that the same Bluer Heron II that now runs out of the Jupiter Inlet. I used to take the original Blue Heron out Singer Island back in the early 80's. Back then it was like 25.00 for a 4 hr trip. I also used to fish for sheepshead off the Blue Heron Bridge. Live fiddlers are like candy to sheepshead.

 

Got busy enough between the game thread and cooking that I failed to get our supper meal posted.

Accompanied with a great win tonight I bar-b-crewed chicken halves with baked potatoes on the top rack. Yep, Pat’s Homade on the last two turns.

A fresh Romaine salad topped with vine ripe tomatoes was our other side.

The ice cold longnecks and chilled wine were “game ready”.

Life is good in Gator Nation!

 

Lurk—

We will do that from time to time ourselves. Do y’all ever have breakfast for supper? When we’re hungry for it, well, it couldn’t be better.

 

I lived in the Fort Myers area for about 4 years. First renting a townhouse off Summerlin Drive then my first home in Lehigh Acres. This was in the early-mid-90's.

I loved everything about the area except the lack of waves for surfing. And for that reason when an opportunity came up for a lateral transfer to the Port Orange store, I took it. My regional manager was peeved because I was a very good store manager and always brought in some of the highest profit margins in the region. There wasn't a thing he could do to block my transfer...lol.

Anyway - while I was there I bought my '79 Mako 19' center console off one of my customers. He had it tied to his dock in Fort Myers Beach but I kept it on a trailer on my driveway. (still do in fact!).

I had buddies who lived in Alva and I would hang out with them sometimes. They were into Jet Skis and had Yamaha's. Also water skiing. So I learned about the boat ramp there that led into the Caloosahatchee River. That was fresh water! So I would put in there with my Mako and then head west through the lock and into salt water and out into the Gulf to go fishing. You had to go way way out for Grouper because it was so shallow there. I didn't do that much because it was just too far for me. But the other fishing was great!


And the lanai at my home in Lehigh Acres. I loved that home!


I had a cat that had been with me through 4 moves before coming to this home. He was an orphan I adopted. Was in Holly Hill picking up irrigation supplies and one of the guys there had a little kitten he found in the road soaking wet because it was raining that morning. The rest is history. So I had a small cat door in the lanai so he could go in and out as he pleased. He always came inside the home and slept on my bed at night.

I kept his food and water on the lanai. Then coons started invading so I would lock the cat door at night...lol....

Getting back to Alva and my boat...when I returned to the boat ramp going through the lock and back into fresh water flushed the salt from my Evinrude.