Last Friday, Tom Oreck hosted a cookout for plant employees and turned the lights on for the first time since the storm.

NPR: Vacuum Maker Oreck to Stay after Katrina

After an afternoon of riding through prickly pear cacti in the strong Southwestern sun, your reward is a relaxing cowboy cookout during a lovely sunset.

BBC: Touring the American Southwest in a cowboy��s boots

Decades later, Nickmann still wasn't much of a cook, but they deviated from the usual hotel brunch on Mother's Day 1991, and had a cookout at Nickmann's San Diego home with her mom, her step-dad and one of her brothers.

CNN: 8 ideas for a memorable Mother's Day

In Tennessee, the woman died during what had been a lazy, happy day at a home cookout.

CNN: In just seconds, a boy, a gun, a death, then grief