Laura, you don't have to evacuate, do you?

Charley is hitting exactly where my family lives. Mom's house is shuttered and she is in NY. My sister is with me. My brother and his children went to Naples. They all live in Bonita Springs, right between Fort Myers and Naples, or in other words, where the map shows the eye of the storm.

Oh, I am right along the east shore, we just have lots of wind and some serious rain bands.

Good to hear from you Laura. I was thinking about you this morning and wondering if you were in Charley's path.

Anyone planning on cooking something for Nilly might want to double check with her, before doing too much in advance.

Pfeh. Well, I'm not going to bother her. I'll make it anyway and she can eat it or not, but I'm hardly in a position to import someone to supervise my pie-making.

It will be non-dairy and egg-free. Or organic butter, anyway.

Laura, I've added you to the list. Preferred size?

Apropos of nothing, there is pizza across the hall. It is making me hungry enough to commit a felony for food. It's hard to interpret exactly, but I am taking this as a possible, vague sort of sign that I might consider, like, eating in the next hour or so. Sadly, the pizza smell is just making me want a big bowl of fried cheese.

Large I think. I am 14/16ish these days. Maybe x-large.

JZ- I think I'm interested, but I didn't see a price in the press post...? Also, the size I would order depends on the style of the shirt.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be a pain!

Kristin, I'm checking quotes from various print shops. It looks like it'll be, including shipping, around $20 a shirt, but we don't have an exactly exact final number yet.

Okay, sounds doable. Put me on the list! If it's a normal-style baggy t-shirt, I'd like a medium. If it's a tight-fitted one, a small.

Thanks for doing this!

Just as a clarification, you cannot cook for Nilly when she is not there. If you aren't Jewish, and bake something in your oven, Nilly cannot eat it. If you are Jewish, and your oven is not kosher, Nilly cannot eat what you've baked in it.

You can clean your oven beforehand (put oven on clean, so all turns to ash, and then scrub it clean), but an ORTHODOX practicing Jew needs to turn the oven on and prepare the food according to Jewish standards.

What Nilly has said to make everything simpler, is to NOT cook for her, unless she is there. That's the easiest way, so that she is sure that it's all good.

It's much easier to buy kosher packaged foods that do not need baking.

I know, and Nilly knows, that everyone wants to cook for her, and she's all humbled that people are willing to go through these complex processes for her, but really, it's not necessary at all!

Plus, she doesn't eat much anyway. In fact, I worry that I'm starving her. I think she only had two cookies for breakfast. She's yelling at me, now.