{"id":1387,"date":"2009-09-11T21:29:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2013-01-26T01:12:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T06:12:03","slug":"tailgating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/11\/tailgating\/","title":{"rendered":"Tailgating"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is our set-up. We try to be at the same spot every game day.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ah, game day at The Swamp.\u00c2\u00a0 Kickoff might be\u00c2\u00a0at\u00c2\u00a07 p.m. but if you want your regular tailgating spot at Norman Field, you’d better be there by 9 a.m.<\/p>\n

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sleepy tailGator–one year later he became our son-in-law<\/p><\/div>\n

Since it’s a 2 hour drive to\u00c2\u00a0 Gainesville, that makes for an early start to a very long day.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0And a lot of food–three full meals for as many as 75 hungry Gator fans.<\/p>\n

We pass the day visiting with neighboring tailGators, watching football coverage on a\u00c2\u00a0 tv that plugs into a special connection in the car and just getting ready for the game.<\/p>\n

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our daughter Rebecca’s fan artistry<\/p><\/div>\n

All\u00c2\u00a0 the students from our hometown know they are welcome.\u00c2\u00a0 They heard it through the grapevine, and they heard it right.<\/p>\n

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Crystal<\/p><\/div>\n

Among\u00c2\u00a0 the four families who join efforts for Super Saturday tailgates, we’ve always had at least one UF student in the clan.\u00c2\u00a0 Their dorm mates, fraternity brothers and sorority sisters are all welcome and show up in droves.\u00c2\u00a0 We love visiting with and feeding these fun, smart and\u00c2\u00a0starved-for-home-cookin’ kids.<\/p>\n

Crystal, one of our regular student attendees and greatest helpers,\u00c2\u00a0 suggested that we\u00c2\u00a0needed aprons.\u00c2\u00a0 She played a critical role in our tailgating by arriving early to stake out our place and then securing an area large enough for our tent, chairs and 6-8 vehicles.\u00c2\u00a0 She was a force to be reckoned with!<\/p>\n

One morning, Crystal remarked that she had given up wearing\u00c2\u00a0 white Gator shirts on game day because she always got dirty from setting up, cooking or cleaning up.\u00c2\u00a0 By game time, she always\u00c2\u00a0needed a clean shirt.\u00c2\u00a0 That was all the encouragement I needed.<\/p>\n

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With 8 royal blue aprons lined up, marked and ready to embroider, I went looking for a design.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I was really surprised when I went to one of my favorite machine embroidery design sites, Embroidery Library<\/a> and found the absolute perfect design. Of course, I had to add the text and the F on the Gator apron.\u00c2\u00a0 But could there be anything better for a TailGator?<\/p>\n

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two of our Gator cooks<\/p><\/div>\n

All the major chefs got an apron, as did our student helpers.\u00c2\u00a0 What a great time we have at Norman Field.<\/p>\n

By the way, our Gator Girl Crystal graduated from UF in 3 years and is now the manager of a major department store in Texas.\u00c2\u00a0 We are so proud of her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, game day at The Swamp.\u00c2\u00a0 Kickoff might be\u00c2\u00a0at\u00c2\u00a07 p.m. but if you want your regular tailgating spot at Norman Field, you’d better be there by 9 a.m. Since it’s a 2 hour drive to\u00c2\u00a0 Gainesville, that makes for an … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,15,18,17,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}