FOOTBALL AND MORE FOOTBALL

College football! How we love it!! It's been an interesting season thus far. The Gators really piled it on Kentucky on Saturday, Ohio State got beat (I still really question Penn State's ranking, I mean LOOK at their schedule!), and Alabama is still rolling, Tide, rolling. The genius and I anxiously await the rankings each week.

But then there's Vanderbilt. ONCE AGAIN, we got our hopes up for them. For the last three years they have won five games and have had a chance to make it six and go to a bowl. They haven't been in years and usually don't even come close. Then they lose that game they SHOULD win and stay home at bowl time --- again. This year they started out at 5 and 0 and we were sure it was the year. They were ranked 13th in the nation!! They had Mississippi State and Duke coming up, so surely they would win one of those. But no, it's just another year so far. I think they decided this year they would see how many hopes they could raise by winning the first five and then stop. And now if they do win I won't even be here to celebrate; the season will be about over when I get back from Florida.

And speaking of football and the vacation, there's a little oyster bar near where we will be staying this year that is Gatorland all the way. The floor is a checkerboard of orange and blue squares and there are Gator signs everywhere. When we were there this summer the proprietor told us that they have big turnouts to watch the Gators play. So maybe I can talk some of the relatives staying with us to go there and watch on Saturdays at least for a while.

It won't be long now and we will be starting down I-65. I will be away from the computer for almost the whole month of November, so don't look for any Pegtales during that time. I may get online at the Realtors just to catch up on my email, but I probably won't start up again on the Tales until I get back.

But this week I'm still here!