So you found me! My name is Johnny Chandler and I was born and raised in northeast Alabama! Somehow I have managed to spend most of my 32 years in the beautiful state. It could be the great white clouds and beautiful rolling hills that keep me here. I lived in Jacksonville Alabama for 7 years and have managed to make it back! I spent almost a year in Nashville living off of West end near Vandy. Let me tell you Nashville was a trip and I can’t believe I made it through drunkville! I worked in Printers’s Alley as a fill in sound guy and worked at Sammy T’s in Huntsville Alabama at the time! After Nashville I made it to Birmingham for 3 years and decided that I needed to get my ducks in a row and get with reality.So I made it back to Jacksonville and can’t say enough for the beautiful area that surrounds this little southern town. Not much has changed since I left except for all the new restaurants and they are even building a new hotel! The old Wal-Mart is now a thrift store and the new Wally world is the busiest thing in town.As I drive down the street and head to the square a sudden flashback of my younger days hits me like a rocket! Did I really work at Brother’s Bar for 5 years; did I transcend space and time to make it back to where I started my Pro college days?It is hard to believe that I am living in the same apartment complex as I lived for 7 earlier. I stumble through my apartment in dark only to find the path I took once before had taken a million times. Not much has changed in the old neighborhood, still the same manager and the same road bumps and the same sunset!I sit now reflecting back on my older days and wonder where I went wrong and where I went right. I have managed to bea Pro Freelance audio engineer working on 100,000 consoles with world-class talent to a closet songwriter popping up at random open mics and giving it all my soul. I managed to step on the stage with some of greatest artist of our time in the Birmingham area.Just recently I have felt the urge to play more and keep pursuing the recording. I have also felt that I have jumped to the other side of writing and style. I can’t wait to record the songs I have written with my friends and enjoy the journey.The last recording artist I recorded is doing very well and people love his tracks. I am so high on life and can’t wait to lay some more tracks from Tedd Tedder.I have also been talking to a couple of people about doing some duos and I am about to start playing out again. What can I say I am hooked! I would compare the feeling of playing to great crowd as jumping off a mountain side wall with a rope! It is the most awesome feeling in the world.I had been watching people play for 12 years and had to find out what it felt like! It was a drive that I could not control and still feel the urge to hit the stage. Life is all stages, which we face, and every day brings a new stage to play, what will be your song?Lately I have felt that life is moving at the speed of light and I am heading through the haze with my eyes wide open. I have been looking back from childhood as a kid working in the chicken houses with my uncle to working for the group Alabama when I was 16.Most of my childhood I spent running from roosters wanting to spur me to fishing before school on cold fall mornings. I hung out with the cool wild country kids that liked to dip and thought fishing and cattle were the way. We call them good old country boys in Alabama.I spent many afternoons riding the tractor cutting the field for watermelons, squash, peppers, green beans, tomatoes, and every other veggie you can think of! I watched my uncles cows grow old and watched as the fence fell with age. I even got to pick bell pepper for a short time when I was around 12, nothing like grabbing a rotten one!I would wake up around 5 every morning and go with my dad so he could open and run the Chandler store. I would often crawl in the back and fall back to sleep before I had to be up for school. I got to see all the people come and go and sat and wondered where they were all going and doing.I sat on that old green bench for years learning how to play guitar and watched the sunset and the cars go up and down the road. My dad bought a minnow tank and we had minnows for a bit until the motor broke and then I used to beat on it uncle it drove my uncle Terry crazy, I am sure he still remembers!I had a great childhood and being a punk kids didn’t see this until recently. Growing up in rural Alabama has been an awesome and inspiring experience for me. Within fifteen minutes I could be to 4 waterfalls and had Guntersville State Park, Buck’s Pocket, High Falls, Griffin Falls and Little River canyon just across the valley from me.I could not dream of a more magical place to grow up and go to high school. We would camp on town creek and laughed through night as we sipped the drink we got from the bootlegger down in section. I also spent many morning watching the sun come up over Guntersville Lake and watching the cranes looking for fresh food.I dream that one day I can sit at that camping space and watch that same sun go down over the water. I can taste the fresh grilled pancakes melting in my mouth as the waves crash in and shells wash ashore. One day I am hoping to find that message in a bottle to return to me, until then I will keep looking! Thanks for reading more to come soon!
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It is almost that time of the year again! The Bears are about to wake out of their wintertime hibernation. You better believe those guys are going to be hungry when they get up. They will be on the prowl throughout the mountains and will be hanging out near the creek looking for an easy meal!
Every spring when the bears wake there is the possibility of human contact and if you are wise you will walk away without any incident. Never incite a bear or he might just come and show how tough he really is! And you my friend are no competition for an 800 pound bear or even a 300 pound bear!You got to remember they fight to live everyday and with huge claws that cut through a salmon with precision, you are no match.
Bears are found all over the world and can walk on their heels like a human. They have large bodies, small round ears, with a short stubby tail. Bears are classified carnivores and each species varies amounts of herbivorous behavior. The Polar bear is mostly a meat eaters and the Panda likes plants.
There are many species of bear! You have the, Brown bear, Asiatic black bear, Sloth Bear, Giant panda, Polar bear, Spectacled Bear, Sun Bear, Black bear!
The Brown Bears can weight anywhere from 300-860 and the females 200-450. They can be aggressive; it is ironic that children have stuffed bears for animals! There are several kinds in the Ursus actos species; Alaska brown bear, Asiatic Brown Bear, European Brown bear, Grizzly bear, Himalayian Snow Bear, Kodiak Bearand the Syrian
Asiatic Black Bear-Selenarctos thibetanus als known as Black beast, doh bear. Formosa Bear, Giant Cat Bear in Japan. They are medium sized and have huge ears for their body. The males weigh 220-440 and the females 110-275. They are found throughout Southern Asia. They are in Northern India, Northeast china, Nepal, Sikkim, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Southeast Russia, Shikoko, and Honshu. They are mostly veggie eaters and some have been know to eat small animals.
Sloth Bear-Melursus Ursinus -They are Termite eaters and pretty small animals. Adults may weigh from110-320. The are also known as Aswail, Ball(Kipling), Honey bear, Jungle Joker, and Lip bear!
Giant Panda-Ailuropoda melanoleuca- Also known asFiery Fox, Shi Ti Shou (Iron Eating Beast), Black and White Bear, Shining Cat, Cat Bear, Bai Bao(white Leapord). Pandas males grow to about 190-275 pounds and females 155-220. Bamboo is 99% of their diet and they eat from 26-33 pounds of it a day!
Polar Bear-Ursus maritimus aldo known as Ice Bear, Nanook Bear, Polar Bear, Sea Bear, White Bear, Walking Bear. They love to eat Seals and they are no feat for those huge claws! They are a very aggressive animal with the male weighing as much as 1,300 pounds and the females are smaller at about 600 pounds. They away from these bears they don’t play!
Spectacled bear- Tremarctos ornatus-short faced Bear. It gets its named from it rings around its eyes. The males weigh from 220-340 and females 140-180. They are found in South America-Peru, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, and Bolivia. They eat wide range of food and like to build nest high in trees.
Sun Bear-Ursus malayanus- Maylay Bear, Dog Bear (Thailand), Ape man, Bruang (Sumatra). IT is a small bear in the lowland tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia. This bear can be found in Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangledesh, Cambodia, and many other countries in the Southeastern. They have a balanced diet and love termites, birds,and plam oil. They only weigh up to 145 pounds. Much of their habitat has been ruined by deforestation and they have been over hunted. They are in Danger!
Black bear-Ursus americanus- American Black Bear, Florida Black Bear Cinnamon Bear, GlacierBear, Kermode Bear. These guys are found all North American and Canada! They estimated around 750,000 of them and near 7,000 just in the great state of Pennsylvania. They have been known to come in different colors- brown black bear, white black bear, and even the Blue Glacier Bear. They are great climbers and use trees often for protection. There are 18 known sub-species of bear and you can say they are the most successful bear.
So next time you are up in the mountain or driving down the road through PennState. Be sure to let these guys do what they are doing and never approach a beer. Once you piss a bear off it could be very bad for you. They have been known to rip holes in the tops of cars and they can break a window with no effort! There is no hiding once you make him mad!
The rules:For whatever reason Do Not Ever Run from a bear! There is no way you could ever run from a bear! They run up to 30 mph and could catch you in no time! Just try to back away slowly and if they come for you, you better find a tall tree you can climb! It is recommended to be as high 35 feet in the air! Remember black bear are great climbers but they can be lazy too, your climbing skills may save your life. Grizzlies aren’t great climbers but they can jump high!
For a Brown Bear you will be safer in the fetal position and play dead and hope that it works. He may leave you alone if he thinks you are not a threat. For a black bear you better be ready to fight and use anything available. Pepper Spray in the eyes or a big stick and fight for your life. Be sure to never drop your backpack and run! You can use it to save your life!
Do not ever provoke a bear! They are wild and will kill you! Never feed a bear or leave food sitting around a camp site! Many bear have become addicted to human food and will kill to have it.
Thanks for reading and hope these tips may save your life one!
So you found me! My name is Johnny Chandler and I was born and raised in northeast Alabama! Somehow I have managed to spend most of my 32 years in the beautiful state. It could be the great white clouds and beautiful rolling hills that keep me here. I lived in Jacksonville Alabama for 7 years and have managed to make it back! I spent almost a year in Nashville living off of West end near Vandy. Let me tell you Nashville was a trip and I can’t believe I made it through drunkville! I worked in Printers’s Alley as a fill in sound guy and worked at Sammy T’s in Huntsville Alabama at the time! After Nashville I made it to Birmingham for 3 years and decided that I needed to get my ducks in a row and get with reality.
So I made it back to Jacksonville and can’t say enough for the beautiful area that surrounds this little southern town. Not much has changed since I left except for all the new restaurants and they are even building a new hotel! The old Wal-Mart is now a thrift store and the new Wally world is the busiest thing in town.As I drive down the street and head to the square a sudden flashback of my younger days hits me like a rocket! Did I really work at Brother’s Bar for 5 years; did I transcend space and time to make it back to where I started my Pro college days?It is hard to believe that I am living in the same apartment complex as I lived for 7 earlier. I stumble through my apartment in dark only to find the path I took once before had taken a million times. Not much has changed in the old neighborhood, still the same manager and the same road bumps and the same sunset!I sit now reflecting back on my older days and wonder where I went wrong and where I went right. I have managed to bea Pro Freelance audio engineer working on 100,000 consoles with world-class talent to a closet songwriter popping up at random open mics and giving it all my soul. I managed to step on the stage with some of greatest artist of our time in the Birmingham area.Just recently I have felt the urge to play more and keep pursuing the recording. I have also felt that I have jumped to the other side of writing and style. I can’t wait to record the songs I have written with my friends and enjoy the journey.The last recording artist I recorded is doing very well and people love his tracks. I am so high on life and can’t wait to lay some more tracks from Tedd Tedder.I have also been talking to a couple of people about doing some duos and I am about to start playing out again. What can I say I am hooked! I would compare the feeling of playing to great crowd as jumping off a mountain side wall with a rope! It is the most awesome feeling in the world.I had been watching people play for 12 years and had to find out what it felt like! It was a drive that I could not control and still feel the urge to hit the stage. Life is all stages, which we face, and every day brings a new stage to play, what will be your song?Lately I have felt that life is moving at the speed of light and I am heading through the haze with my eyes wide open. I have been looking back from childhood as a kid working in the chicken houses with my uncle to working for the group Alabama when I was 16.Most of my childhood I spent running from roosters wanting to spur me to fishing before school on cold fall mornings. I hung out with the cool wild country kids that liked to dip and thought fishing and cattle were the way. We call them good old country boys in Alabama.I spent many afternoons riding the tractor cutting the field for watermelons, squash, peppers, green beans, tomatoes, and every other veggie you can think of! I watched my uncles cows grow old and watched as the fence fell with age. I even got to pick bell pepper for a short time when I was around 12, nothing like grabbing a rotten one!I would wake up around 5 every morning and go with my dad so he could open and run the Chandler store. I would often crawl in the back and fall back to sleep before I had to be up for school. I got to see all the people come and go and sat and wondered where they were all going and doing.I sat on that old green bench for years learning how to play guitar and watched the sunset and the cars go up and down the road. My dad bought a minnow tank and we had minnows for a bit until the motor broke and then I used to beat on it uncle it drove my uncle Terry crazy, I am sure he still remembers!I had a great childhood and being a punk kids didn’t see this until recently. Growing up in rural Alabama has been an awesome and inspiring experience for me. Within fifteen minutes I could be to 4 waterfalls and had Guntersville State Park, Buck’s Pocket, High Falls, Griffin Falls and Little River canyon just across the valley from me.I could not dream of a more magical place to grow up and go to high school. We would camp on town creek and laughed through night as we sipped the drink we got from the bootlegger down in section. I also spent many morning watching the sun come up over Guntersville Lake and watching the cranes looking for fresh food.
I dream that one day I can sit at that camping space and watch that same sun go down over the water. I can taste the fresh grilled pancakes melting in my mouth as the waves crash in and shells wash ashore. One day I am hoping to find that message in a bottle to return to me, until then I will keep looking! Thanks for reading more to come soon!
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