Our glorious fall preview is over and it’s gonna be 95º today. But I’ve already been out and gotten the coffee and done the marketing AND got everything on the list!

We’ve got Ben’s Chili Bowl half-smokes for Labor Day, woohoo! Very excited to have these in the grocery store. Mind you, when I’m at the ballpark, I just get mine plain (they’re so good just on their own) but I know my brother wanted the chili to go with it – so we have both Ben’s “chili sauce” and chili con carne, because I have zero idea which one actually goes on the half smokes.

I’m getting stoked for my upcoming staycation. I finally got tickets to the National Museum of African American History, and that’s Monday. Also gonna take advantage of the outdoor seating at Villagio for a late lunch/early dinner at some point. (Usually when we go for birthdays the weather isn’t conducive to outside, so we just haven’t been there since…we first got vaccinated in 2021?) And there is a local petting zoo that supposedly has capybaras, and yeah, I’m gonna go check that out and find an outdoor lunch spot over in that part of town, too. Oh, and I’m pretty sure there is gonna be an Outback takeout night, too.

Plus that week is bookended by the Mount Vernon market fair and then the Occoquan fair! It’s gonna be a good week, even if I can’t do my road trip.

Just gotta get through 8 1/2 workdays. I can do it?