DEC-A-8

 

I CARRIED THE PICTURE OF DREW’S EIGHT-POINT BUCK

WITH ME ON THE HUNT IN MD TO COMPARE NOTES WITH HIM

ON DEER IN MI; HIS HAS A WIDER SPREAD!

 

 

From:        Glenn Geelhoed

To:          Tom Griffioen

Date:        12/8/03 10:05AM

Subject:     I needed to make sure I matched Drew's buck, so I carried his picture with it on the hunt!

 

I tried to call you on the weekend at the phone number I have for you: 616/794‑1144, but someone else seems to own that number.  I then tried the cell phone 616/250‑5894, but that AllTell customer was not available either.  Please correct these numbers if wrong.

 

I will attach ALL the news (enclosed). 

 

I came back home early, driving the faithful Bronco through the snow, and started the all day job of clearing out all the stratigraphic archaeologic layers of stuff I had kept in the Bronco for all occasions, and packed it away in storage at Derwood.  I then diligently re‑packed the Bronco with fifteen photo albums from 2003, my hunting gear I had just laundered up form the closeout of the Maryland hunts, and a few items I would need for the Christmas visit.  I am hoping that you might be able to carry much of this back through the Cumberland transfer where we will pack it into other wheels to make it north again toward Maryland.

 

I did NOT pack the smokepole.  The reason may seem strange.  I could not get to it.  The gunsafe is packed away in stacks of stuff with the plastic wrap around it in the basement, and there is no light, since the electricians are re‑stringing cable throughout the house and have disconnected the lights I had hoped to use in the attic and basement to find the items to be packed up for a muzzleloader hunt both in MD and MI.  I had to give up when I just could not feel my way to the component parts of the hunting equipment other than the stuff I had out for the MD hunt.  I hope that the unpacking may be done by the walkthrough on January 8, the day I fly to Jacksonville, but for this year's MD hunts I had to BORROW Craig Schaefer's 7 mm, while I have at least a half dozen good deer rifles awaiting me locked away so safely that even I cannot get to them!

 

I plan to drive the Bronco up through upstate New York beginning on the December 18th to be at Russell and Fran Elwell's for a couple of days (716/753‑7293.)  I will then drive over to Chicago (carrying my cell phone, 240/401‑0247) to be north of the city near Evanston to see Virginia and hear her Christmas music on December 21‑‑22, leaving for Michigan thereafter.  I will wash the road salt that may have accumulated by then off the Bronco and park it under your Christmas tree.  We can then celebrate Christmas with the family, as well as the get together at the party on December 26, then fly out of GRR on December 28 back to MD.

 

I hope you like the story attached!

 

I hope you like even more the treasure trove about to arrive in the mail!

 

GWG

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