Iwill have celebrated two very important anniversaries in 2025. One of them happens this weekend: the Minnesota deer rifle hunting season opener.

In 2025, the most important, of course, was my wife's and my 50th wedding anniversary. Priorities do exist!

The other important anniversary I am going to celebrate this coming weekend is also important to me, but let me make it clear: It's not on the same level as our wedding anniversary!

This Saturday is the opening of the Minnesota deer hunting rifle season, and this will be the 50th year I will be celebrating deer hunting on a piece of land that at one time was tax forfeit.

That anniversary brings back 50 years of hanging out in those trees and sifting my way through the pine, aspen, birch and oak ridges that dot this piece of Minnesota.

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