YO-HO-HO-HO-HO Secret Santa 2020!!

[SheilaAnn]

Just left the postal annex! Gift on the way to.......

[HawkerXP]

I have received my presents from my Secret Santa! Don’t tell anyone but I believe it’s dtresca

Rubs and sauces from Veterans Q. They are a award winning competition barbecue team made up of military veterans and family members. 100% of their profits are donated to credible veteran organizations and groups. I’m so excited to try these out. Thanks Santa! 🎅🏻

[barelfly]

Alright update for .......... your secret Santa delivery was supposed to be there today, but I’m guessing Santa got tied up in New Mexico eating some green chile! It’s Delayed but doesn’t say when it’s supposed to be there. Maybe tomorrow???

[Oakgrovebacon]

jumbo7676 Thanks to Santa! A very nice selection of rubs and sauce that I have not tried before. Thank you very much!

[PBCDad]

I am blown away. Panhead John got me amazing gifts, all of which I actually have been pining over for a while. I don't think I've posted about them though so I don't know how he did it.



Last year my wife got me a sharpening stone, but I've been so intimidated by the process that I only tried sharpening for the first time a few weeks ago. The results were marginal at best, I think I couldn't keep a consistent angle. So I have a bunch of dull knives with no way to sharpen them, until now! I plugged in the electric sharpener tonight and sharpened my cleaver, and I'm going to sharpen the rest of my knives tomorrow! I'll still try to learn the stone, but this sharpener allows me to have the best of both worlds - sharp knives whenever I want and the ability to practice whenever I want, because I can always run them through this bad boy if I never improve.

And speaking of knives, check out that slicer! When I opened it, my 3 year old said that I got a sword, and he's right. I will have to make sure he doesn't take it when we play pirates though... But honestly, I have always thought these slicers were so cool and secretly wanted one, but I figured my wife would say no. Now she has no choice 🤣

Finally, the two (two!) bottles of Black Swan Beso del Fuego. I've looked on with envy for years at the rest of you enjoying it and recommending it, knowing that my family would never go for it, the spice wimps that they are. So that's three for three on gifts that i have wanted for a while but would never have actually bought for myself - the holy grail of gift giving.

I knew Panhead was secretly a good guy with him taking care of his mother and everything (don't worry, I won't let on in the other threads), but this was way more than I was expecting.

Merry Christmas to everyone in the pit family, you are all awesome and very generous as demonstrated in this thread. And a special Merry Christmas to Panhead John for the amazing gifts and for bringing your special brand of... whatever it is... to the pit.

[Panhead John]

Jim White Thanks for the inspiration Jim. Meathead has always wanted more female members to the Pit and I agree. I’ve just come up with 3 ways to make our female membership skyrocket beyond our wildest dreams!
1. We start a new channel called “Show Us Your Tights”. All male members will be encouraged to model their latest tights, yoga pants or spandex.

2. We start a new streaming video platform titled “Grillers Gone Wild!” In this one we have all the male members cavorting around shirtless and performing all sorts of culinary hijinx.
3. Start us a beefcakes calendar to be sold worldwide. “The Hunks of Amazing Ribs”. This would be in similar style of The Firefighters Calendars you see sold occasionally.

Huskee I want a 30% cut for these ideas. I can envision our female membership getting to be 50% in no time.

[smokin fool]

Secret Santa gift sent off to intended victim this morning via Purolator US gateway.
Delivery date 12/17, which I find astounding with the amount of freight going thru the hub right now.
Hopefully it arrives before the other fat man shows up.

[Old Glory]

Thank you Secret Santa! I love the Yeti Tumblers. I was looking at this color a few weeks ago for real. Merry Christmas and many thanks!

[Mr. Bones]

Got a PM, earlier this week, from my Secret Santa, warnin me of a scheduled delivery...a'ight, thanks fer th heads up

So...I come home from work on Thursday, an when I rounded th corner of my motour garage, there on my front stoop sets a black box...from over 25 feet away, I recognicized what it was, an went all dizzy, an blurry, kinda weak in th knees, which some can interpret as a 'Bad Thing', especial when both yer hands are full, carryin stuff in, an ya have no viable way to ketch yerself on th way down

Turns out, my Secret Santa is some kinda tall, handsome, an very gifted individual, who not only is a Masterful Cook, an also teaches BBQ Classes, makes offset smokers (in his spare time, when he's not ironin his cape ), but also has his very own line of BBQ Rubs!!! Oh, an to rub salt into my inadequacies, he also hosts a globally famous website of his own...(gulp)

(A guy could git an Inferiority Complex, all up in here!)

Oh, btw, turns out he's also associated with some kinda High-Fallutin, World-Reknowned BBQ website, as well.

Now, to be quite honest, I'd never (previous, like) even seened me no SRF box, in person, much less ever actually touched one...jus don't happen, hereabouts...

After I packed in alla my remnants, an byproducts of th day gone by, on into th house, there, I went back out front, kinda half thinkin th delusion would be gone, an my fever would eventually subside...

Nope. Wasn't meant to be, I reckon; There it still set, Big As Life... Hmmmmm....

Reckon I'll take it on into th house, pursue other tasks, an wait fer it to go right on ahead, an dematerialize... after a few hours of completin some required tasks, I craned my head round th corner, very cautiously...

No Dice. It was still there, justa Double Dog Darin me to approach! Ulp! (Yikes, even)

Wantin to err widely on th side of caution, (an equally not wantin to repair any sheetrock, scare th dog water outta Smokey Joe, or deal with overly-inquisitive local LEO's), I opted to grab my ever-present kitchen utility knife, an try my level best to make a 'stealthy' approach...

Here's what I found: Pic 1: Top box is what we're talkin bout; bottom one came a few days previous...

(Wonder why we'uns tend to gain weight, round th Holly Daze ??? )





Now, th box weighed like it might contain mebbe a medium-sized fire safe, er summat akin to that, in mass, so I wasn't too dang dang sure what was might gonna pop all up outta there, once I cut that tape.

I donned appropriate PPE (Safety glasses, gloves, steel toed boots was already on, Beloved Cowboy Hat (Hey, if'n yer gonna die, go out lookin all kinda spruced up, right? ) ) ,an warned th Cat to git th Dadgum Hail out from under my feets (like he ever listens, btw)

I made very slow, calculated, an precise, well beyond surgical incisions through th nefariously fiberglass-reinforced packin tape, inch by inch, centimeter by centimeter... nerve-wrackin stuff, lemme tell yall...

(My heart was alla thumpin like a Bonzo solo,longa bout this time!)

Wail, yall...I gently, tenderly, even lovinly began to s l o w l y, ever so s l o w l y prise open th tabs of this here Mystery Box, as only somebody who's ever played wit IED's might be capable of.... No Pressure, right?

Any yall ever seen EOD inspect / disarm a bomb???

This was kinda like that, only s l o w er, an even more cautious...

What greeted my (admittedly squinted) eyebulbs (even with th aforementioned ANZI 87.1 Rated Safety Glasses) was a bag. A tote. A poke sack, if ya will... Now I thought to myself, I thought "Self",(that's what I calls my danged ol self ), "Self, how In th Blue Blazes can that there bag weigh so danged much, even if it was designed to transport Gamma radioactive materials???"



Wail, Ol Self, he kinda mulled over it some, ciphered it all over, fer a spell, mebbe two, an sez back :"I don't rightly reckon that I has any kinda good answer to that..."

Drat. Boned. (again)

Thanks, Self!!!
Wow. That, right there, was purty dang danged helpful, at th moment...

Ever so cautiously, usin my second best pool cue, to provide some distancin (of th non social type), I gently fished that there bag out, ever so slowly, outta th aforementioned (an depicted) Black Box....

Was I askeert? Hail, Nossir! <<<Bald Faced Lie, BTW

Pucker Factour???? = Reckon John Henry, his danged self couldn't a drove a straight pin up my arse with a 25 lb. sledgehammer.

(But other than that, I was cool as a cucumber lol )

I tentatively fished th aforementioned bag outta th aforementioned Black Box (), an gently, (Oh So Gently) set it down on th floor.

Whew! So far, so good!

(Never mind th shakin, an th nervous beadsa perspiration that was runnin all kinda down my face, an some nether regions that're perhaps best left to th imagination...)

Course, that made it in th domain of Th Cat, an he casually strolls up to it, all a sniffin, an such. (I had much th same swagger, when I was his equivalent age; nowadays I gimp around, on accounta where alla dat swaggerin led me, when I was a Young Man.

Live, an (Ideally) Learn, right?)

Underneath th seeminly insulated grocery tote sack, they was a plenitude of these bags marked "DANGER" an "DRY ICE", talkin bout all kinda mean, nasty, ugly thangs bout wearin gloves, an such...

Yeah. That, right there, in itself relaxed th moment, fo sho!



Long story even longer ,

Turns out to be that they was some kinda hunka meat typa sorta thingie, hidin right in plain sight, curled all kinda up underneath them DANGER Bags, whatever alla dat bidness was alla bout... .

Initial testin showed it to be harder than a 3-peckered Billy Goat, so I removed it, ever so gingerly, out there, to my kitchen sink area, an took me a few pics, bout like so:





What a Blessing, an unexpected surprise from outta th Cosmos!!!!

Jus hopin I'm summat near worthy, once I light that fire...

Many Thanks, once again, Brother Hank, AKA Henrik

My most sincere an heartfelt best wishes go out to you and all those you love...

(After more than 40 years at th same trouser size, this here winter, I might jus haveta shop UP a size, afore it's through....)

>>Workin t'wards it, anyhow<<

**Ain't nuthin else to do, but eat, drink, and / or be merry, etc.**

[Panhead John]

Well, I’ll never come close to Mr. Bones’ anthology, but anyway.... 5 weeks ago I saw a post from ZeroCredit about a new BBQ light he just bought. I entered into the post asking about a possible light for my 22” Weber Kettle, which I have a detachable side shelf for it. I mentioned that the only choice I could see that would work for me, would be a gooseneck type light with a clamp that could work with my shelf. We’re all tired of trying to grill in the dark these days. Well, in one of the best cases of “secret stalking” I’ve seen.....lo and behold, today I get this from SmokingSteve The LED Concepts BBQ Grill Light! I hadn’t bought one for myself in the meantime cause I just kinda forgot about it. I just now went back to that post from 5 WEEKS AGO, and Steve hadn’t even posted anything from himself there. He wasn’t even in that thread at all. Anyway, Thanks SmokingSteve for a well needed gift....it will be put to good use tonight!

[Mr. Bones]

Cool light!
I got its Ancestor...different LED array, but decidedly th same folks:

[Mr. Bones]

What makes me really Love mine, even more than th highly useful, an helpful light that it provides, is mine was a gift from my belated cousin, Danjohnston949

I always feel like he's right out there with me, along with his $#¡+bird dogs, when I'm doin a night cook...

[smokin fool]

klflowers Thank you so very much Secret Santa Kevin
Your very generous gift arrived moments ago.
You must have read my post on no charcoal in stores around here and have come to my rescue.
Ive never seen Fogo or Jealous Devil at any stores around here, Dickenson’s is a very highly regarded BBQ supply but I’ve never gone over to they’re location.
Merry Christmas to you and yours and thank you again for these special gifts.
It almost makes my sad to burn them....
Brad

[Spinaker]

Great work so far folks! It has been amazing seeing what every Santa has come up with.

I love it!

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

USPS sure is making my package exciting... on my end. Anyway, it looks like the first of 3 packages should be delivered tonight (says out for delivery to one lucky? person in AZ), the second package got lost and has no delivery time, and the last one to leave the company to get to USPS should be in AZ on Thursday.