The picnic pro, again

After eight days of 104º weather, it finally drops to 78º and you are, like a normal person, invited to 41 picnics at once. Also like a normal person, you already had one single picnic scheduled with someone. It is time. You go to five picnics in a day, only going home to walk the dog, and somehow come out of it all alive. Here is how you do it.

The blanket

Your blanket needs to be:

• Big
• Waterproof
• Flat-packable
• Easy to stake in the ground, so it doesn’t flap around