Everyone's bracing for Hurricane Irene.  I went to the grocery store to stock up like everyone else on the Eastern Seaboard.  Boy, was that stupid.  At the deli counter, I pulled ticket number 69 and they were only at number 19. After preparing a huge dinner tonight for 11 people and shopping for a weekend's worth of food for 11 people, we've now learned that our family from Baltimore isn't going to make the trip due to the weather forecast.  So, a weekend's worth of cook outs and camp outs and dinners out and birthday … [Read more...]