It's awfully late to start drinking.

The sun isn't up yet, and that is one of the signs that the end of the summer has indeed arrived. There's less humidity, even on rainy days, and just a touch of coolness in the air. In about an hour, I'll start the fire to begin smoking 100 lbs of pork shoulders for a fund raiser Monday (9/14) at KC's Korner in South Plainfield. Grace, Walter and Co. raise money every year for a cancer hospice, and this year, they asked the Memphis Barbeque Company to do some barbeque.

We're doing ribs, chicken, pulled pork, cajun greenbeans, and barbequed beans. Dinner serves sometime late Monday afternoon. The event was originally planned for 50 golfers, as it is a golf outing, but it has now swollen to 120 or more. We'll have the smoker, the tent and all the regualr crap set up for the event. I'll start singing country music probably around noon.

I realize that noon is awfully late to start drinking, so cocktails may begin a bit earlier.