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We named him after my dad's father - a
man who worked pretty much every day of
his life from 1890-1980 and whose camping
trips with his son were nonexistent.
It is a fine art mixing the right amount of
exposure to country life into a child's upbringing,
particularly if your own desire is to have
that child take over the ranch or take up the
rifle and rod for the great outdoors. Mix in
a few bad experiences, maybe overwork the
little bugger on chores or embark on a brutal
slog complete with biting insects and blisters,
and you have a chance to make a city kid.
The world is full of kids who left the farm
or ranch behind for the big city at the first
chance they got. It's probably why we have
corporate farms and ranches in the first place.
It might be traced back to getting the kid up
in the dark before school to milk the cow and
nothing more complicated than that.
But Otto and I are giving it a whirl. We
take a camper and a boat sometimes, and a
couple of bored bird dogs. We drift around
on a mountain lake and don't do much fishing
but a lot of sandcastle building. We eat s'mores
by the fistful, or he does, and I drink a beer
or two and think about my dad. We build
fires. I have a sidekick I call almost exclusively
by his last name. McReynolds has two boys
in their early teens and we occasionally get
the whole crew together like a clan out of
the Highlands, shooting BB guns and our
dads' hand-down .22 rifles at hapless tin cans.
We cook in Dutch ovens, laugh aloud, build
roaring campfires and yell to our off-season
bird dogs. It's a start on a life outdoors for
my son and a continuation of one for me.
I hope it is working because I'd like to have
a young buddy in the outdoors as I grow
older. If only for selfish reasons, I may need
a strong young back for packing out an elk.
But about this time of year as summer starts
to swell before us and become more than just
a far-off promise, when I hear, " Dad can we
go camping? " I think that maybe it is.
- Author of several books including, " Blue Lines, A
Fishing Life, " Tom Reed and his wife, Shauna, raise a
wide variety of farm animals and country kids on the
banks of a trout stream. Sometimes they all go camping
or they split off in pairs.
- Lori Eslick is an illustrator, artist, presenter, children's
picture book illustrator and workshop leader.
She regularly creates illustrations for Wyoming Wildlife
magazine's Wild Country Dispatch column. More of her
work can be seen at eslickart.com.
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