Five of the six Ansel brothers (l to R) Darryl, Brett, Randy, Dean, and Mike. Brother number six (Brad) could not make it, as we visited with our good friends Gary and Nancy Baldwin.
Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with the Baldwin name, as we Ansel’s have bear hunted out of their camp since 1973. Gary and Nancy were on their way back home to Marquette, after a lengthy winters stay in sunny Florida, and stopped to spend a few days with “the boys!” Gary and his dad Dick, along with brother Greg, are the ones that keep the Baldwin deer/bear camp a bee-hive of activity 10 months out of the year. I say 10 months, as it’s kind of hard to traverse 200 inches of snow during the dead of winter. The snow is melting though and Dick has probably already driven his little ranger back to camp.
Last evening we enjoyed a rib-eye steak dinner, with all the fixings, along with some goose breast that I grilled. We had a lovely evening at brother Randy’s place, reminiscing about past exploits and adventures pursuing bear and deer, here in Michigan. The Baldwins have always bent over backwards to make us feel at home, during our yearly stay, in their neck of the woods. We’ve all went from young adults to grandparents, over the years, and the journey has been much sweeter with the Baldwins along. Good times, good memories, good friends-life is good.
Mike