I have a photograph of my dad and I, in the small woods by the river in Winnipeg. We built a tepee like hut out of dead trees, back in 1993 or so. In the picture we’re standing in front of it, with him slightly leaning down and his arm is around my shoulders.
It was a pretty epic hut, although he did most of the work haha. He was wearing a brown leather jacket, and he had his long black hippy hair, which is always a bit odd for me when I look at it because I don’t really remember my dad having black hair. His was always white, and all Gandalf like, stained with nicotine and weed smoke haha.
In it I’m wearing these ugly blue corduroy pants with a white and pink sweater that has a drawing of a panda on it. I remember his girlfriend taking it, she was totally amazed by the little hut we did. I’ll always remember the picture not only because it was one of them father and daughter activity things we did, but because my dad’s like, dead. XD
I’ll also remember it because that little hut we made was totally destroyed by someone like two days after lol.
But I remember how he showed me how to do it, and so years later, some friends and I went out in big woods or small forests pulling a Blair Witch Project and camped out there to get drunk or stoned, and we made huts just like that.
Find a good tree with a large space around it, crush the earth and grass for a while, then find dead tress and use the main live tree as a base to lean the other ones in, and intetwine them at the upper base. Leave a small space for entering and exiting. You can hang flashlights and shit, and tell horror stories while you drink those cheap two dollar whiskey miniatures.
But yeah, that photograph is awesome.
I’ve also got one of my grandmother and me, when I went to visit her in France years ago. my hair was dyed blond, and I was wearing a Nirvana t shirt lmao. She’s got dyed red hair, and is kinda small and pudgy. Both of us are smiling, that was before I took off again. I like this one too, since I get along real good with my grandma, but we don’t see each other much at all, other than speaking on the phone.