Got this big tom last Monday while hunting some private property about 1-1/2 hours west of here.  I was hunting with a state-trouper friend of mine, who happens to be an excellent “caller!”
We originally were set up in a pop-up blind in a fence row, but decided to “run and gun” after seeing only one [...]

Turkey season opened about 10 days ago, and evidently Mr. Coyote drew a permit.  I’m not really sure about that, but I know he was hunting them Wednesday morning.  He had the attention of these three young “jakes,” but now had to figure out a way to get at his turkey dinner.  The element of [...]

After a 30 year hiatus we’re getting back into the camping business.  No pop-up camper this time.  We just purchased a small light weight little (1750 pounds) Scamp travel trailer.  It will sleep 4 and could possibly do 5 if they are small, and most Ansel’s are at least short.  It does have a bathroom [...]

Went to watch the Clawson Middle School cheerleading competition today.  My oldest grand-daughter (Nadia) is in the back row third from the right.  She’s one of the two girls that the others hoist during their cheer.  Makes me a little nervous, but they did very well in taking 3rd. place honors.
After the competition we “chilled” [...]

Son-in-law Glen, daughter Tara, and grandson Kyle inside a reproduction of a Native American birch bark home.  We were staying at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Mt Pleasant Michigan for a Mohawk carpet convention.  None of us gamble, so that attraction was scratched off the list, before we even arrived.  I must say [...]

It isn’t the biggest elk in the world, but it’s meat in the freezer.  Except for a few packages of fish, my freezer was empty this year.  Not now, as a few hundred pounds of boneless elk steaks, roast, chops, and burger now sit on those empty shelves.  In fact I have a package of [...]

Much has taken place within my immediate family since the last post.  My mentor, friend, and Papa went to be with the Lord several weeks ago.  Hard to believe that Joe Giarmo is no longer around to give me advise and fix my mechanical problems.  I miss our mornings at Tim Horton’s drinking coffee and [...]

Pictured on the hay wagon is daughter Meghan, Courtney (holding Addisyn) Ava, and Logan.  We do a couple bonfires every year about this time, and I thought of a way to add some excitement for the grandkids.  I used my 4-wheeler trailer and a couple bales of hay so we could have our own little [...]

It’s has been ages since I’ve done a post on this site, so I may not have anyone reading it anyway.  We just got back from a trip to the Upper Peninsula with several of the kids and grand-kids.  We stayed at Gary and Nancy Baldwins beautiful 16 Mile Lake house, and we enjoyed ourselves [...]

Seem the older I get the more my family tree means to me.  Memorial day and the Normandy Invasion Anniversary (D-Day) just passed, and I’m finding out about some famous, and not so famous heroes in my family tree.  The Ansel’s have a long family tradition of serving in the military.  My great, great grandfather [...]