Cheryl Beckham

Don’t know why my computer all of a sudden will not allow me to put a video here on my blog. I really love YouTube and when I find a good video from them I like to be able to share it here. I’m still not into Facebook, from I hear it is fairly easy to post a video there to share with friends, family and the rest of the world, for now this is my way of sharing not only random thoughts, but pictures and videos as well. Guess I’ll need to pester my kid brother who always saves my butt when it comes to computer issues and see if he can figure it out. At least it isn’t a computer problem that needs immediate attention, so I don’t need him to drop everything and come a running, but I’d pay a good amount of cash to see him skip over here! LOL

I should have pulled over immediately when I noticed that my engine was running hot. But since there was no safe place to pull over and I had my daughter and her new puppy with me I wanted to make sure that we had some shade, cell phone reception and a bathroom I decided that I would just keep on going to the dog park that was only a few more miles down the road. It’s too bad that my van wasn’t happy with that decision, although it did get us into the dog park’s drive way, just shy of a legal parking space.

As soon as I pulled into the drive way we heard and felt a big BANG from under the hood, while watching very hot water and steam spewing all over in various directions. It’s just a darned good thing that my brother-in-law was home and that he was able to hook up his new towing trailer up to his pick up in a timely fashion and get to us before it started getting dark.

So now I am stuck with no transportation, my van is sitting in a shop waiting to be given an estimate so I’ll know if I need to sell my first born in order to pay for it to be road worthy once again. It sucks to be me today.

Why is it that when you think about someone you usually end up seeing them or hearing from them!?  I have been thinking about one of my girlfriends the past couple of weeks on and off.  Then today out of the blue I get a call from her.  That may not seem all that strange, but the thing is we haven’t talked in about 3 years.  She moved out of state, is married and has three kids so her free time is limited.  I usually work late at night so we are on totally different schedules, so emails are going to have to be the way to go these days, instead of long distance phone calls.

I have had the opportunity to spend a good portion of my life on the many waters around this part of the country and have seen too many close calls and accidents that have happened, and the majority of the operators could plainly been seen drinking some type of alcoholic beverage, with beer being the number one choice. Drinking alcohol and then driving anything can and has caused serious incidents and the number of people doing this is growing larger every year it seems. It wouldn’t surprise me to see in that in the not to near future that some type of permit may be necessary to operate all of the different types of boats.

As much as I have some strong opinions about Big Brother and all, I am starting to think that licensing for this serious issue might be a good idea. Of course I’d have to see all that it could require and all that. Something to check into online sometime in the near future.