Bill told me a story about how he wanted a guitar when he was young and no one ever got him one. It made me feel very sorry for him so a couple years ago I went down to the pawn shop and bought him one for 125 dollars and then took it to the music store to get new strings and have it tuned. When I gave it to him he was very touched. We bought a child’s guitar for Nate at Christmas and he and Pappy had a ball Pickin and a Grinnin.

He was trying to teach himself the chords so I downloaded everything I could find. He played with it for the longest till I suggested he should go take some lessons, now what’s wrong with that suggestion? Maybe he thought I was telling him how bad he was at any rate he stopped trying to learn. I can’t figure these men out or how they think. I was even going to pay for the lessons. I told him that him and Nate could go together, one 6 the other 60, now how cool is that?

He also told me about a pair of cowboy boots he had wanted when he was a little boy and cut out the picture and gave it to his MOM and she said she would order them for him. They were black with turquoise and purple with white up the middle and everyday he would go to the post office and ask the Postmistress if his boots had come yet. They lived in a small town in VA. so of course she knew little Billy and she would say no, sorry not yet.

His poor old Mom didn’t have much money and God love her she didn’t want to disappoint him so she gave him hope, but thought he would forget about it in time, but he didn’t. Every single day he went to the Post Office with hope in his little face and everyday the little guy was disappointed, but for a whole year he held on to that hope never wavering until he started liking girls.

He still remembers those boots and still likes to tell the story and he is so good at relating a story that no matter how many times I hear the story I still laugh or feel the pain that a small child would have felt. If I ever find any of those damn cowboy boots the way he described them I swear I’ll buy them even if he never wears them he can have the friggin things bronzed even though it wouldn’t be quite the same, he would at least know I adore him.

I was tagged by Carole’s Thoughtful Spot to do a meme, but the only problem is I don’t like tagging other people so when this happens I simply write a little post and just link back if I visit their blog and if I actually like it.

In Carole’s case I do and I think she’s sweet and I like reading about her trials and tribulations like the episode of her dog going through the screen door and how they fixed it. I think you might enjoy visiting Carole with her cute little cow widget. She wanted to know 6 of my unspectacular quirks so I will list them.

1.I see these meme’s all over the place and I never read them. Not sure if that’s a quirk, but I ignore them because even though they have info about the webmaster they are like ad’s to me. 2. First thing in the morning I have a cup of coffee and 2 aleve’s even if I don’t need them.

3. I wont eat the outer edge of toast. 4. I like peas mixed in with my mashed potatoes. 5. I have to hug my pillow to go to sleep, Bill calls it my man pillow. 6. I can’t stand to touch a popsicle stick it makes my skin crawl. Okay that’s enough quirks from me.

Now there is also a tag and award from Jean’s musings about writing and life and if you want to see the cute little award you can visit Jean’s blog because I have to decline the award. I visited the blog it comes from and it was in a different language so I had no clue what the blog is all about.

I certainly did appreciate the fact that Jean picked me from these instructions 1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.

I can understand Jean’s blog so I have no problem in giving linky love to her blog, but other than seeing some nice knitting pictures on the other one which I certainly understood I couldn’t understand what was written and if I can’t read it then I can’t link to it. I hope you understand Jean, but I am giving you a link just because you thought of me, so Thanks alot.

Okay back to my real live monster story, as mentioned before in part one, My Cousin BJ And The Day I Saw A Real Monster Close Up . I did recognize BJ and he came over where I had motioned an waved because I saw him scanning everyone and he resembled himself still only much older now. We talked about family for awhile and played catch up and then I asked him why he was in and he showed me a newspaper clipping.

I still have it somewhere I’ll look for it and add it at a later date because I’m lazy right now. He referred to his crime as hanging bad paper, in other words he was going up and down the coastline making company payroll checks and as the article said even though all stores had been warned to be on the look out these people were still cashing the checks.

When arrested they found many sets of id’s, driver licenses, birth certificates and social security cards plus all his equipment. I will say he was smart when it came to conning people. He had to be the best con artist I have ever met. He started telling me about his life inside and started pointing out the different people and telling me what they were in for.

He told me that some of these men would have their girlfriends or wives slip drugs in to them. Also when visits were over these inmates knew they would be strip searched and every orifice checked, I certainly wouldn’t want any visitors myself if I had to submit to something like that. He said that with just suspicion some of the suspected carries were also strip searched when entering the prison.

It seems a lot of inmates get religion on the inside or at least pretend they do. I saw one man with a young pretty woman walking by his side and he was pushing a baby carriage, but he had guards all around him and wasn’t allowed near the other inmates. I asked why he was so heavily guarded and BJ told me because there were death threats against him and even a contract out on the baby.

I was appalled that anyone would want to harm a baby. BJ had told me how much inmates hated child molesters and child murders so I couldn’t understand why they would want to hurt that baby. Then he told me who that person was and I felt physically sick. It was none other than Tex Watson, what right did this animal have to be walking around with a pretty new wife and baby at his side?

Why did Tex Watson have the right to be to be married at all and get conjugal visits? I was disgusted because all of the images and knowledge of what he had done to Sharon Tate and her baby plus all his other victims swelled up before my eyes. This monster was allowed to be at the country club of California prisons, be married and have a baby. My God is that the way we treat murderers of babies allow them to procreate life and take care of all their needs?

I was really shaking and upset when it was finally time to go and I couldn’t get out of there soon enough I had actually seen a monster close up and it was married to someones daughter. I think the inmates were thinking the baby had to be evil with Watson genes and that an eye for an eye was perfect for this born again professed christian, but as we now know that never happened and after 3 kids and 25 years of marriage they divorced in 2001.

I for one certainly hope he is never let out, at least they sent him to a more befitting prison instead of the the “Country Club.” I never want to see another monster in person.

I have been a fan of boxing since I watched Cassius Clay who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali in 64. I wavered a bit when he was refered to as a draft dodger, but to each his own. I enjoyed watching him prance around and enjoyed the banter between him and Howard Cosell whom Paw Paw couldn’t stand and considered Cosell as a has been laywer that made up his own words.

There have been a lot of great boxers since Ali, but as far as I’m concerned none better. The biggest money making fight in history however was the Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Oscar De La Hoya in 07 and now it looks like there will be a rematch in September at the MGM unless the venue is changed. They say that the winner has the advantage in a rematch, but you never know there could be an upset. I did enjoy Mayweather on Dancing With The Stars because that’s one of my favorite shows.

I don’t think this fight will generate as much cash as the last, but if they promote it right I guess it could. So the big question is, Is Mayweather retired or not? Was this just hype to build up the next big fight or not? How can they already be hyping ticket sales if they aren’t really going to do this thing. I think they will have the rematch and I think De La Hoya will win even though he will have been without a match for 16 months or somewhere around there.

I was just looking at the prices for the Mayweather/De La Hoya tickets and realized there is no way I can afford them even though they are quoted as being cheaper and better seats than if you purchased through the Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Oscar De La Hoya tickets box office, I still couldn’t swing it even though we all know you will see some of the biggest celebrities that can and will be there.

Well, for those of us that are poor there will be PPV and there are always parties surrounding these events that will make it convenient to view even if it’s not like being right there. It’s still fun so long as the fight lasts longer than 1 round like some of Mike Tysons’. Now that would have really ticked me off if I had paid all that money for some of his fights unless it was the one he bit Evander Holyfield’s ear off in 97.