Chris Hansen:  

Just published my first book! "Secrets of Backyard Bird Photography" with Rocky Nook Publishing. It is available on Amazon and other fine book sellers as well as for Kindle and E-book. It has been getting great reviews on Amazon. It would make a great Christmas present for a photographer or birder you may know or just buy it for yourself. You can say. Hey, I know the guy that wrote this book. I'm semi-retired so I have time to fish. I have a beautiful family of course. Doesn't everyone say that about their family? My wonderful wife Lenore of over 30 years years. Two children. Jay 20 and Annika 18 .Both great kids. (don't we all say that about our kids?) Many of you can relate to that. Pet wise we have a huge yellow Lab 105 lbs. named Lance. Loves to slobber on everyone or put hair on them. don't wear black around him! Badger the wonder dog, a Border Collie Spanish King Cavalier rmix He is a lovable coward and one cat. Mr. Mango the cat has a goatee. Yes really a goatee! The latest edition is Paaya going along with the fruit theme. She is a Siamese cross that is an outside cat for reasons we don't need to go into. We live in the small town of Willits, California. It's composed of about five thousand odd people. Yes, many are odd. Drugs do that to you. The town is up in the redwoods and mountains of northern California. We live on a mountain top roughly six miles out of town. There are very few people up here. Growing pot is a major industry. Why do you think I'm retired? No actually I was a science and math teacher for many years and I'm retired on disability from job stress. Any one out there who was or is a teacher can probably relate to that. In answer to the question. I don't grow pot or smoke it. It would be great if they legalized it so the price would drop and all my neighbors would stop growing it. Make it much safer that way! If you want to find Willits we are the very first stop light 2 1/2 hours north of San Francisco on Highway 101. The only person from the class of '75 to ever visit me was Dan Burke. He has come and stayed a few times. A Good friend. That weiner Eric Wahler was nice enough to visit me in California twice but he never came to my house.I visited him in Montana. Great place to live. I'm a Christian and have a strong faith in Jesus. He is my savior. I came to believe that he is a power greater than myse...Expand for more