After we got noticed by Mainstreet and Shelly Hargrove...in and around the year 1999 , we won a lot of press attention.  The trouble with the press, is you never knew exactly what they were going to write about you. Or how good the write up would be.
The business I had created took off soaring to an incredible start.
I remember telling Angel, my assistant that we had indeed created a monster with this business.
By now I was realizing there was something wrong about him..(Angel) ...too many off the wall episodes happening with him.  Outside of my thinking that people were conscerned as well as myself.
It did not take long to decide to stop trying to keep up

 with the business, and trying to watch my back with Angel's stunts.  Like him disappearing right in the middle of a project only to show up several days later broke.
So I told him let's shut down the business and go find out whats going on with you.
So we ended up in Amarillo working for the Big Texan Steak Ranch for what seemed like five years but was only three I figure.
Meanwhile we make an experimental trip to California as a last ditch effort to get something going different and maybe get some sophisticated help for Angel, which never happened.  Instead his California relatives were a little too wild to be around, and California was loaded.

 Loaded with a lot of dark things and everything was just flat out too different for me to handle.  So we left and came back to Amarillo, and this is when I checked Angel in to MHMR services where they discovered he was a Type 2 diabetic, and borderline Schitzophrenic (sp).  So now he was disabled and we had to deal with it.

 These days after Angel has been on corrective medicines and me giiving him his insulin shots everyday, he is more grounded than ever.
He had a stroke about three years ago and seems to be doing ok now, save for his legs give out quickly.  I myself have continued to do my work and adjusting to everything going on without giving up.

Life goes on I guess, and everything that goes with it just has to happen like it has to.  All we can all do - is to do the best we know how everyday.









I will not retire from my work as an artist, but we have managed to turn our luck into a good working retirement for both of us.
The money has never been that good, but money is not the greatest thing there is either.  Living and living in a life that has a good meaning to it is more important.

About those write ups in the past.  Nothing has changed...they still screw up the information everytime.  Recently I was quoted as painting a mural on a roof.  A roof??
Oh well.
Well stay tuned all as I will be going back into the archives to tell the stories that go along with this mural life we have lived..Over and out,  Billy