Yippy! Look What Came Today [5th installment]

continued from Dec. 27th post..............

"If you want to talk with Sally, you'll have to go through my husband. He's her care giver," Maggie whispers as she tries to cover up her previous raspy tone. "CECIL! CECIL!" "Sweety, this is Janet Myjdgrs from Adult Protective Services." Cecil tells Janet that this is the wrong house, that Sally lives up at the top of the hill. "I'll walk you up there," he said. "Oh, Thank You" she responds. "You're with Adult Protective Services? Is Sally ok? can I help you with anything?" he tries to drag out any information he can. "No thanks, I am just here to speak to Sally." At Sally's house, Cecil let himself in, as always, this time with Janet also, introduced Sally to Janet Myjdgrs. Janet turned to him and said "Thank you so much, can I speak to her alone, please." "Wouldn't you like me to stick around?" he asked. "No I would like to speak to her privately" Janet replied. This drove Cecil nuts, he could not just walk away without control of Sally, or what Janet might say. They could see him hovering just outside from the windows, interrupting with anything he could think of. His nervousness was obvious to both Sally and Janet. Sally said later that she loved "watching him squirm." At the end of the interview Janet told Sally, "with all these things they may have done, it really does not sound good, but Sally you are clearly a capable adult. Therefore, there's nothing I can do. It is out of my hands." Sally then said, "Well ok, but I'd like you to meet my new neighbors, I'll call them , they can be right over. They are the ones that called you." Shortly the boys arrived, heard about Janets greeting with Maggie, told Janet their concerns, and finaly they thanked Janet for her time, but most of all, thanked Janet for her unintended visit with the Blatzs.

Sally continues telling the Burlyboys more about the things Cecil and Maggie have been up to. One of which is having Sally pay to have a safe installed in their home to keep Sally's stuff safe for her, or them. The burlys tell Sally that she needs to receive her own mail and ask for her things to be returned. They all go to buy Sally a locking mailbox, install it, replacing the old one, and the next day it is broken into. They go to the post-office to inform the postmaster. He takes a report and says that he will speak to the letter-carrier. Days later the letter-carrier tells her boss that mail that used to go Sally's house is now addressed to the Blatz's house, but still has Sally's name on it. They changed her mailing address on some mail! But the postmaster assures that the post-office can and will fix this, but he admits to Sally and the boys that Cecil may be able to do this if his name is now on everything of hers.

What had just been found out was bad enough but, one morning the burlyboys were trying to call Sally and figured she was having her hair done at her hair dresser's, which was close enough for her to drive to on her own; she was comfortable with driving in the morning. As the boys were leaving their own house they saw Sally's car out in front of her house. They tried to call her again on their cellphone. No answer. They turned up her road quickly and ran in to check on her. She was inside, wondering what's going on, what's up? "Your phone! We have been calling all morning!" "It hasn't rang," she said. They checked the line and it was severed just below the edge of the table! She did go to the hairdresser earlier that morning, but hadn't needed the phone all morning, "I didn't know it wasn't working." The boys repaired the line and the same thing happened a few days later, out at the pole. The phone company's line person, it was a woman, a woman that Sally recognized from the phone company which she had work for all her life, said that it definitely was cut.

The sheriff was called at once and he came out to take a report. Again the boys were there to help Sally get over telling on her so-called friend Cecil. Sally gave a full story of the things she suspected of Cecil. One of the boys asked the sheriff if he could, accidently go to the Blatz's house, knock on the door, and ask for Sally Neathery, him in his uniform would be a great effect, as Janet Myjdgrs from Protective Services was. He said that that would not be right, that he could not do that, but he did want to know where the Blatz's house was. Down the hill the first house, was the answer. He informed them that he accidently already did do that, on his first try to find Sally's house.

When one turns on Sally's road, to get to her house, you drive diagonally across the front of her property, just as you get to the property line, you need to make a sharp right turn up to the top of the hill, or you go straight to the Blatz's. This had just happened twice and must have frightened the Blatzs, which probably saved Sally's life, because the boys figured the worst was about to happen. "I think Cecil and Maggie were about to do her in!" one said to the other. "Do you think that they would go that far? What do you think they have done?" "I don't know, but cutting her phone line twice! That does not look good, and breaking into her mailbox!" "Yeah there is something that they don't want her to see." "I just wish we knew what it was." "We don't know for sure that they cut her phone line, or broke into her mail, but they sure have gotten nasty." "How are we going be neighbors with people like them?" "I don't know!.............I think I am going to walk up to get the mail." It's a short hike up to the street to get the mail, and it doesn't take very long, so the burlyboy was only gone ten minutes, as he likes to browse through the letters, magazines, but mostly junk mail, on his way back. One item caught his eye; a real estate flyer. "There is a house for sale near us, look at this! Do you know which house it is?" "THIS IS CECIL AND MAGGIE'S! THEY'RE MOVING!"

..............to be continued

What do you want with her?" [4th installment]

continued from Dec. 22nd post............

Life was becoming painful living near people that try to control so much. Every thing must go the way it is prescribed for you, or you will be made to feel uncomfortable, disobedient, punished; so be it. The Burlyboys' have always felt that they were different, rebellious, a little strange, but still likable, and not to be told what to do or think! This was what brought them so close. The way they related to each other, a bond. Everyone saw it, and made comments; How well matched they seemed to be, yet so different. Theirs was a relationship of true friendship and love.

And the Blatzs' wanted the boys' to know that befriending Sally was not going to be permitted. The boys' felt that the need to Sally was worth Cecil and Maggie's disapproval. Sally was used to being alone, but not neglected. This was an older woman, widow, living out in the desert, with not much going on, unless Cicil and Maggie wanted something; not Sally's friendship, but material items. And the boys liked her. "She's a kick, a little odd, she can be crusty, just like us."
The Boys knew that they were not following Cecil and Maggie's wishes. Maggie made sure that her feelings were known. Now being a male couple became an issue, and some of the referrals that the Blatzs' had given, now cancelled. Downright rudeness was an art Miss Maggie did well, with no pretense to hide it. Cecil became cold too. You could look at him and see he is the calculating type. The boys were not following the orders, as others have done so far.

The Blatzs' behavior told the Burlys' that something was fishy with them and Sally. One day, one of the boys was sitting on Sally's porch with her, Easter had just passed, and Sally was asking why the boys were not at Cecil and Maggie's Easter Sunday? "Everyone was there and it was very awkward that you guys we not there. People knew, something's going on" The Blatzs' made sure that the boys knew that they would be excluded. That day on the porch, Cecil walked over to Sally's and looked at the burlyboy, then turned to Sally and said, "Sally you shouldn't let him come up here. He's a busy-body; I want to talk to you inside". Sally and Cecil went inside the kitchen, the Burlyboy stayed on the porch and could hear voices being raised. Cecil came out and scurried right passed him. Sally came out, angered, and said "that wife of his is really something". Sally told the burlyboy that she had asked Cecil why the boys were not invited? Cecil said, "that's my wife, I can't control her". "I've got duct tape, you tape her mouth shut, or I will," Sally laid into him; "she totally controls you!" And he had to back down, he said he would go down to the boys' and apologize for his wife.

The next day Cecil came calling on the boys, and tried to make up for obviously shunning them. The boys responded by saying that they did not care to come to any Blatz's parties, that Maggie and his behavior was so strange from when they first met, and that the strange behavior all started when the boys met Sally. "Is that it?" "You don't want us to know Sally?" "Sally has told us that you control all of her finances and get her mail, even though she has asked you not to." "She thinks you might be keeping stuff from her." "You picked up the mail, one day when you Maggie, and Sally, were in the car together, and you handed Sally's mail to your wife, not Sally." "Maggie went through it and gave some to Sally." "Doing that upset Sally!" "She also thinks that you are charging her allot for her prescriptions which you pick up." "She is afraid to say anything to you because you are all she has." "This is why you keep people from her!" "You and your wife have chased off her friends." "She has nobody, nobody but you!" He tried to say that isn't so, but that is all he could say, because it was so. He could not back it up. The burlyboys told him that they would be looking into things, and that Sally's stuff better be in order. He mumbled that, "it will be," and left with his tail between his legs. "We are not thieves," is the last thing he said.

The boys were talking about this with friends, when one of the friends said that he was just reading about this sort if thing in the paper, and that he would send the article to them. It arrived and the story sounded similar. They told Sally that they were thinking of calling Adult Protective Services, she said, "go ahead". The woman from Protective Services called Sally and set up a time to come see her. Sally called the boys and said that she would call them when she got there. That day when Sally called, the Burlys walked up the hill to Sally's, went inside and got a scary story, and a funny one too. Turns out the woman accidentally went to the wrong house, knocked on the door and Maggie answered. "Hi, I am looking for Sally Neathery." "WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH HER?" Maggie screamed at her. "I am from Adult Protective Services. I need to speak with her."

............to be continued

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What Have You Done to Cecil and Maggie? [3rd installment]

continued from Dec. 21st post............


Work began on the house full-speed-ahead. Walls were being ripped open and some came down. Cecil and Maggie had introduced the Burlys to Brad and Briana, neighbors, who by the way, were in the business of kitchen remodeling. They also had people who did exactly what the boys were looking for, no not sex, construction. Men showed up daily to rip something out, or put something in; O.K. that does sound like sex.
One morning Brad, (with whom sex would be pure fantasy), came in, started working, greeted his friends and workers, then turned to the Burlys and said, "what have you done to Cecil and Maggie"? "What"? "Maggie is trashing you"! "Us"? "Well maybe not trashing you, but you must have done something to piss Miss Maggie off"! "What did she say?" "I don't want to get involved".
The only thing the boys could think of was meeting Sally. Defieing the Blatzs warnings. "I don't think we were supposed to meet Sally. Do you think something's going on?" "Like what?" "Do you remember at their Christmas Party, when Maggie got so drunk, and was waving her finger in people's faces, barking, I'm the king of this hill, and don't you forget it, well at the party, did you meet Eric? He said that he was interested in the property up the hill". Maggie, drunk, screamed, "that's mine!" "Yeah something's up".

The next time that Sally came to the boys' house for dinner, She came in and, proud of herself said, "I own your camel!" One of the Burlys knew immediately what she meant. A bronze camel that was taken up there when Maggie invited the boys, to sell anything they wanted to get rid of at her sale. "You bought it"? "Yeah", Maggie called me and said "get over here now. I am having a garage sale and there is something you'll want"! Again poudly Sally says, "so now it is in my room. Fifty dollars? that's all you wanted for it?" "Fifty? I was only asking thirty dollars, Maggie only gave me thirty". "Wait she charged me forty dollars for something that I later found out was twenty". Ooooooooh, now I smell it, Cecil and his rebate, Maggie over charging Sally and keeping it for herself, then she over charged me. "I think Cecil and Maggie are greedy crooks". Well they said they are republicans. "Oh no! as our neighbors?; where are we? Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore". Well this certainly is not Oz, but there is a wicked witch!

Sally also informed the boys that, for christmas, Miss Maggie wanted a new dinning room table and curio cabinett, that Cecil told Sally that Sally should get it for her. Earlier, at the Blatz's christmas party, which Sally was not even invited, Maggie was showing her new table and cabinett off, but never mentioned the gifts were from Sally.

Whenever the Burlys' drop Sally off at her house after shopping. Maggie calls the boys' and says, "don't take Sally shopping, she can't even afford her own medications." Then how could she afford new furniture for them? Little did the Burlys' know that the gifts were only the tip of the ice berg. The King of this Hill could no longer hide that ugly wart on her nose.

.......to be continued.

The White House On the Top of the Hill [2nd installment]

continued from Dec. 18th post..............


Summer went by quickly, the house was still needing so much, but it would have to wait. Thanksgiving was coming fast and the boys were going to spend it with a friend from San Francisco, who was coming in by train.
Ra has been a dear friend for a long, long time, and she already missed the Burlyboys even though it had only been five months since the boys moved to Tucson. So the boys invited Ra to come and see the new home. Ra also happened to be a fantastic chef. Her skills were well known and it would be a treat for anyone to dine from her table. Now the question is who shall come? The invitations went out, Cecil, Maggie, and a few other neighbors and friends; "what about the other neighbor Sally"? Maggie put her foot down." NO! You will regret it"! Well O.K. What ever you say.

Later the boys brought this up. What is Maggie's problem with this woman Sally? What do we know about her? Her husband died eight years ago, Maggie told me that Cecil stepped in just before she would have lost her house. He straighten-up her paper work and now takes care of all that for her. Really! She is lucky to have him helping her. That was good of him. She can't do it herself ? She's pretty old. Maybe her husband took care of all that. Why don't they want us to meet her? Do you think she is Homophobic? She has been out here a long time. Maybe she is this Redneck rancher-woman.! When I take the dogs out for our walks I stay off her property. I'm afraid she might shoot at us. Be careful!

Ra came and went, she liked the place and what plans lay in-store for the new house, but Arizona? "What were you guys thinking"? "We love the desert".
One day Cecil showed up at the boys house. "You will be getting a check in the mail for twenty dollars; a rebate that I sent in, I used your name because they will only let me do it once, and I already have. Just endorse the check and give it to me. Oh and by the way, our neighbor Sally wanted me to give you guys these Tamales. Maggie and I are going away for Christmas, We're going to our son and his family's in Las Vegas". Great have a Merry Christmas and a very nice visit with your kids!
With this the Burlys thought this is our chance to meet Sally. We can take her up a poinsettia for Christmas.
Just before Christmas the boys did take up to the white house at the top of the hill (Sallys), a big poinsettia. They knocked on the front door several times, and finally a window opened slowly; "yeah? who's there". "Hello we're your new neighbors from down the hill". "Oh, Hi, come around to the side door". The boys went around to the side and Sally let them in.
Sallys house, to say the least, was full. She had paths to get around in. As she probaly was not used to having visitors, she hurried over to the dinning table, which was loaded high with piles of paper, dishes, and chach-ca, so much so that you could not focus on any one thing. She knocked stuff off of two chairs, and invited the boys to sit. House keeping was not something that interested her, and hadn't been done for a least a decade.
"Did you get the tamales"? "Yes, Thank You! And we have this poinsettia for you"."Oh, Thank You! Merry Christmas. I was not sure if Cecil would give them to you guys. I've been after him to introduce me to you! but he said that he was always too busy, or you guys were"." Thats funny we kept asking them about who lives here. So with the Tamales, and them out-of-town, we thought, now is our chance to meet you". The boys and Sally chatted for awhile and they decided to invite Sally down to have dinner at the boys house. Sally said I would love that, "Her Royal Highness never has me over" (she was talking about Maggie). "Well come for dinner"!
A couple of nights later Sally drove up to the boys house and a good time was had at dinner. After dinner Sally announced that her favorite program was on tonight. The boys looked at each other and asked, "oh yeah what's that?" (thinking Lawrence Welk was about to be said). "Queer as Folk"! "Queer as Folk? That's about to start, ya wana watch it?" one of the burly's said. As all gathered around the T.V. to watch Queer as Folk, Sally says at this point, "I just love this show! it is so educational"!

..............to be continued.

Do You Smell Something? [1st installment]

Once apon a time the Burlyboys, two guys that have been "married" for more then ten years, moved to Tucson AZ. and bought a house out in the desert. Their new place was not far out of town, but with land. The boys, having moved from San Francisco, wanted some space out in the desert (clothing optional).
They had been going for many years to a spot in the desert near Death Valley. A wonderfully beautiful valley that the boys loved and cherished. It runs parallel to Death Valley but so remote, (many miles with no paved roads), that it was quite a long haul, often with breakdowns, to get there. This place had hot springs that, in previous decades, hippies had built some fantastic soaking tubs and communal grounds. The people that would go there knew just how special this place was so that everyone did their best to keep it clean and well run.
Something like this is what the Burlyboys saw in the place outside of Tucson; a spot of their own. A spiritual place of beauty and solitude like the one near Death Valley, and they could run free.
The house was in bad shape that needed allot of redoing, so shortly after moving in, the work began. A huge dumpster was delivered out front and it was filling up quickly. One day while they were hard at work a voice was heard, HELLO, HELLO? then a man showed up at the door. "OH, HELLO I am you neighbor Cecil. I live just up the hill, me and my wife: Maggie. We would like to invite you guys over for a drink. Five o'clock go for you?" Since it was four thirty and both boys were worn-out, "that sounds good, thanks". We'll shower and be right up. "No your fine, come as you are, we're very casual."
Meeting the Blatzs' was nice, they were so friendly and really happy to have the Burlyboys as new neighbors. There seemed to be no problem that the Burlyboys were two men with two kids that were dogs. They offered so much help with advice and resources (workers) that were needed to fix up the place. Looking at their home it was obvious that it was well kept. It just so happened they were about to throw a party and they invited the boys to their annual themed wing-ding coming up. The party was a huge event, this years' theme was Mardi Gras with caterers and bartenders, people flew in from all over each year to attend. For the boys the problem was they already had plans to visit their hometown that week and could not attend. "Darn, you'll have to wait till next year then, you'll be missing the greatest party, last year was fabulous, it was Hawaiian!"
Cecil and Maggie really took the Burlyboys under their wing, they had a "Bar-B-Que" in the boys honor, to introduce them to all the other neighbors. Dinner and drinks often. They boasted how glad they were that the boys had moved in, and all the neighbors were becoming the best of friends. All but one!
"Who lives in the small white house? The one at the top of the hill?" "You don't want to meet her! Fat Sally! You don't want to meet her, She's awful!"

..........to be continued.

My Attempt at Pictures, I'm Still Learning

Some of the cool gates
Rusty waiting for me, I told him to pose.

Damn! what did you eat?

Here we are at my favorite sculpture garden. It is in Oslo Norway. I'm the shorter one. Rusty has been here before and said I had to see it. It is incredible! I have alot more pictures, but this is all Blogger would take.

God, Artist or Egomaniac?

Have you ever traveled or seen the world? This is an incredible part of the universe, my favorite part by the way. I have never traveled to other parts of the universe, just seen pictures, but I still think I like it here the best. The blues and the greens, the reds, yellows and oranges, the browns and tans, and those purples. This place is so fulfilling. It has solids, semi-solids, gases, and in between, liquids. You can't beat it! I think the creator has done a magnificent job, and I just want to thank wholeheartedly everyday! Creating a wonderful home for us to live, share, and evolve. But to worship? who wants to be worshiped? and have everyone on their knees? That doesn't sound very godlike nor worthy of a creator such as this. That's more of a man thing. People say that we were created in Gods own image, but I think that these people, who say that, have created their god in their image, giving God personality traits like theirs. They would like to be worshiped, by people on their knees.
I love and respect anybody that is so generous and talented to create such a place for life to thrive and be so diverse, Life can take on so many different forms we're still discovering them.
To think that one that can create this much so beautiful and perfect is so small that wants to be praised and worshiped is an insult. You cannot do this kind of work, then be so insecure you require that kind of attention. That is belittling, and to make a world, with life, is BIG.

I Need a Break From Politics

The parties are back on. On the 16th of December we are having another Full Moon Bonfire Party out here at Burlyboy Ranch. Last year we had four of them during the winter months . They are a lot of fun! People park their cars in the roping arena, and walk on over to the stables, the way is lit by luminaria, which I think is beautiful. We ask people to bring folding chairs (there are only two benches over there), and drums if they have them. We have three drums, two small hand-held ones and one bigger African drum, I forget what it is called. When the drumming gets going it is so wonderful; people just follow the rhythm of whoever wants to lead. At night with the moon out, in the desert, around the fire, it's so cool.
Sally makes chili, people roast hot dogs and marshmallows, and we have a keg of beer.
We are planning two of them this year, this one and one in January.
If you have ever been, or ever get the chance to go to a drum circle they are really, really cool. I am glad that we started having them, it gives us something to do with this ranch since we have no horses or Alpacas or anything, just snakes, coyote, javalina, tarantulas, rabbits, and packrats up the ying-yang.

Veterans for bush=Evangelicals for satan

I just don't get this conservative rancher mentality of Arizona. It's not so much redneck as white-ass. I call it speaking trailer. I understand the language, I just don't speak it, and they don't understand me or my language, and other thinking people. bush does fall right in with his brainlessness. They admire that?
I was under the impression they did not like draft dodgers. He really is not a part of their world. His family has a lot of money, (ill gotten) to buy his way out of Viet-nam. So it must be O.K. to just tell lies, that way they can believe in him. That's all it takes to lead them; be rich, sound stupid, stick to the lies, and start a war! They seem to love wars. So they can think of themselves as heros. I think they like to torture too, makes them feel manly yeah!
Are christians supposed to stand up for, and protect life? Not war and greed! Did I miss something? Some body should tell them peace is not a four letter word.
And the love and hope we have for the world is peace not piece.