This has been Bossy’s view for the last six days as she lounges lakeside in her bucolic Vermont campground where there isn’t anything remotely tick-like or poison-ivy-infested, hi Park Ranger! When not lounging — or wrapping things in bacon — Bossy has been dedicating the enforced downtime with limited connectivity to reading this book: Originally…
Archives for July 2010
Bossy’s Favorite Things
Boiling water to wash one’s face when camping. Don’t get Bossy wrong, she likes to rough it outdoors, where rough it equals packing a trunk full of downy white washcloths for the evening face wash. After dinner and after the dishes are done and after the dip in the lake and after the inevitable freeze…
Yet Another Little Known Fact
When Bossy camps she likes to get all Top Chef on her family’s ass. This particular night she made chicken cacciatore, by first sautéing (on a camp stove) onions and peppers and chicken, and then she added a can of whole tomatoes and some red wine and parsley and lemon rind — and then the…