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Becoming an Outdoor Woman

April 11, 2012   Maine Outdoors

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Becoming an Outdoors Woman

Have you heard of BOW? Becoming an Outdoors Woman. Excellent program! I knew when I discovered BOW online last year that I’d be going to the next Intro Skills Weekend. I sent a link to Tammy with a note saying “we’re going.” I knew she’d be excited because she loves the outdoors. After thinking about BOW for a couple of weeks, I sent an email to Emily MacCabe, the woman in charge of BOW. When I get a gut feeling about something, I go with it. I had this gut feeling that this was a program I should become involved with. It was well past the start-up stage so I was sure it wasn’t something I’d be wasting my time on if it didn’t work out in a year or two. It’s a big program. Many states are involved with BOW. I asked Emily what I could do to help. That seems odd because I’d never been to a BOW activity, and she probably thought I was some off the wall random woman at first, but she took me up on my offer. After attending my first Intro Skills Weekend, I was voted onto the board of directors of Friends of BOW. So was Tammy.

Thanks to Joanna, my kayak instructor, I’m comfortable in our kayaks. I learned how to make a breakfast casserole in a dutch oven using only charcoal for heat. I saw glow in the dark bugs during a night time walk. And the most important part of the weekend-I met new friends. They are women I think very highly of and share common interests.

I was in the kitchen at 4:30, climbing on a chair to reach tomato sauce stashed in cupboards high above my head. I made a spaghetti sauce from scratch, loose fried moose sausage and put together an American chop suey (some of you know it as goulash) to take for tonight’s potluck supper. I’ll meet Tammy at her house this afternoon and we’ll ride to Augusta together for supper and the annual Friends of BOW board of director’s meeting. I usually drag my feet about going into the city, especially Augusta because I don’t know my way around, but not today. Today I’m excited to hit the road.

Check out BOW. It’s not just hunting and fishing, there’s a huge variety of classes offered. You’ll meet new friends, learn new skills and look forward to next year before the current weekend is over. You can watch a slide show of last year’s skills weekend here.

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