. What is your age range? -9 months to something less than a century.

2. Gender? Male

3. Do you have a favorite color? Plaid..or blue..green..maroon..depends on how I feel at the time

4. Favorite authors/type of book? Right now, a history of steamboating on western rivers like the Sacramento or the Platte or the Missouri or the Columbia/Snake.

5. What books have you really been wanting? The original Book of Kells

6. What type of music do you like? Folk. Pacific NW. GOOD cowboy (NOT CW!!)

7. What CDs have you really been wanting? Big ones, with great interest rates.

8. What movies have you been wanting (DVD/BluRay)? Can't think of any

9. What is your t-shirt size? 2XL tall

10. Do you collect anything? if so, what? Troubles and woes.

11. What are some of your other hobbies? Cowboy Action Shooting, Target shooting, outdoors in places like Yellowstone and Grand Tetons NP, chasing the aurora borealis to Arctic places like Iceland and Norway and Churchill, Manitoba.

12. Do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry? Silver, I guess

13. Please include anything else you feel is important that would help your Secret Santa know what you would like. I live in Idaho, so I'm far away from everything.

14. Remember that "negative hints" such as allergies might also be helpful. No known allergies except maybe to wool.