A cooler filled to bursting with cold bottled beers of various hues and pedigrees; bowls of chips, differently sized and shaped and spiced — with dips made from spinach and clam and dill-smoked salmon; platters of crisp cut veggies, chafing dishes filled with Asian-styled dumplings (with a ginger sesame sauce) and criminally spicy buffalo wings — the meat so soft it slides melting off the bone; summer sausage slices slathered with honey mustard on cracked-wheat crackers and rye melba toast…

Yup. Today’s heavy indulgences means posting will be light. Go Bufs! Go Terps!

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