October 2, 2013

  • Housewife In Hiking Boots

    I remember back in the 70s it was considered a terrible insult to tell someone, "Your mama wears combat boots." Of course I was too young to understand just what was being insinuated by that phrase. Nowadays, of course, there's a good chance your mama wears combat boots because she's a soldier, so the insult has kind of lost its punch. I don't wear combat boots, for either the archaic connotation or the modern, but today I realized I was elbow deep in pie dough while wearing hiking boots.

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    Yep, that looks just like me. Only instead of a frilly apron I was wearing one that says, "My Brain Is Fried," and instead of a fancy dress I was wearing cargo pants and a plaid shirt, and instead of high heels I was wearing hiking boots.  And I might have had leaves and twigs in my hair... possibly a spider or an ant.

    I just don't fit the mold of a stay-at-home wife. Maybe I should, you know, stay home more. But that's what winter is for, and winter is still a few weeks away. So this morning I met up with a friend at a cemetery (What? Isn't that where most people meet their friends?) and we found a couple of geocaches together and I got to meet her brother and I teetered on the brink of going to lunch with them when I started feeling guilty about the laundry waiting to be done and the pie crust that needed to be made, and the dog that had been mostly ignored before being locked in the kitchen when I went haring off this morning. danger-will-robinson3

    IT'S OKAY! NO NEED TO PANIC! BOO WAS A GOOD DOG!!

    The pie crust is for an experimental pie I'm making tonight. It involves strawberries and coconut rum. I tested the rum last night and it passed my very stringent inspection. I'll probably inspect it again tonight just to be sure, because you can never be too careful with your experimental pie ingredients. I think the lady in the first photo might have been testing rum, too. It's the only reason I can think of that she'd have that dopey smile on her face while her bare leg is resting against the open oven door.

    Well, this has been fun in an aimless, pointless way in general, but I have housewifey things to do. Laundry to fold, dishes to wash, strawberries to cap, caches to log, rum to test, young Randolph Mantooth to ogle, etc.

    emergencyTime to get crackin'!

Comments (5)

  • Hiking boots are good for you...kinda like testing the rum, hey didn't you test the rum when you made that Captain Morgan Spiced Pie? You know that stuff doesn't go bad...speaking of going bad, I just cain't wait for those spiky pointy bras to come back in fashion =)))

    Poor Boo....

  • Did women really dress like that when cooking? I don't remember it. I'm glad women don't feel any need to live up to that "this is what perfect women look like." Hiking boots would be a lot more comfortable than high heels. Oh, and pass the rum!

  • There is a woman in my office I refer to as the Semi-drunk lady. She is famous for her Rum Cake, which unlike traditional Rum Cakes you actually get tipsy after eating. The reason is that not only does she out rum in the batter (which is negated by the baking), but she Also mixes rum into the icing AND syringes, yes SYRINGES rum into the cake after it is done.

    We asked how much rum was shot into the cake/icing, but by that point she had eaten a piece or two and so if she had bothered to measure (I don't think she did) she had no recollection of such an activity. Does make for some interesting birthday parties when she brings it in.

    Anyway, this is a roundabout way of saying that strawberry and rum pie sounds Amazing. And if you'd like to have more fun whilst eating it, get a syringe.

  • I'm jealous... I want to go geocaching instead of working. My cousins came over for dinner tonight and "2BigDogs" wants to learn about Geocaching - I invited her to come with us to Fernwood. Woot! Now about that new pie, are you planning to debut it at the Monster of a Cache event??

  • You manage well cooking , hiking and geocaching . So the boots are a necessity .
    At the time of the year there are a lot of apples . My wife uses them on various ways for instance , she fries bits of apples in a pan with a bit of cream then she "flambe "( flame) them with rum . A delight. ( and quickly made )
    LOve
    michel

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