Cheryl Beckham

I remember as a kid we would make up the most wonderful baskets, fill them with flowers and put them on the door steps of our neighbor’s, ring the door bell and run away before they answered. I wonder what ever happened to that tradition that celebrated May Day each year.

My father called me last night to tell me that their neighbor’s dog had once again raided my parents chickens. This has been going on for some time and this time the dog was caught “red handed” with my Dad’s prize rooster “Red” and my brother saw the episode and quickly got his rifle and shot the dog, dead in it’s tracks once and for all.

I was surprised to hear that the neighbors weren’t raising hell with them for the shooting though. They loved that dog and I’m sure that they are none to happy to hear the news. I hope that nothing comes about between them, they have been good neighbors for a long time, and have become good friends of the family, it would be a shame for something like this to ruin a good relationship.

O.K. this is a pretty cool concept that I stumbled onto just now on the Internet. A company by the name of Jupee Numbers is offering Virtual Phone Numbers that can be utilized not only by businesses which may need numbers for all across the world for it’s clients, but for personal family/friend use for folks who are located out of the good old U.S. of A.You see if you have family in any of the 5 countries that they offer and want them to call you here in the U.S., then they will assign you a virtual number for that country, that rings directly to your U.S. land line or cellphone, and that number can be forwarded it to a gtalk,skype,msn or PBX system, I mean how cool is that?

With this company you always do receive unlimited minutes, they have free call forwarding options and that will save you money on your international calling. What you don’t receive is any software or hardware, no type of equipment what so ever in order to take advantage of their money saving offer.

I’m going to run this across my brother and see if he would go online and see what he thinks. He has his own business that makes it necessary that he makes a lot of international phone calls and receives as many as well. I’m not sure what company he is using right now, but I’ll let him know that it may prove to be a good thing to check into.

Years ago I must have expressed out loud in front of someone, somewhere, something about the cuteness of a frog lawn ornament, that had caught my eye, for some reason. I didn’t even buy the frog, but some how that was to be the start of the many, many frogs that have now seemingly taken over my house and lawn. Word got out and frogs are a constant, but welcomed gesture from folks, as a gift, a token, a present, a tip (after all, I am a bar tender, and we receive quite a variety of tips now and then) from virtually everywhere from all types of people that I have/had a relationship with over the years. I must have a frog made out of any and every type of material that is known to man, in all kinds of sizes, and stances.

For Christmas I was given a frog aquarium kit, which requires a check to be sent in with the order for the frogs to come in the mail, or I could go down to one of the many pet stores that have popped up all over the place in the past few years. I’m sure at least one will have baby frogs for sale, it seems like the more humane way to receive new members of the family. But going to the pet stores, any of them like PetCo, Puppy Palace, and Petsmart always leaves me with me wallet emptied out and my heart broken from not being able to take home more of the critters that are all there, just waiting for a home, and knowing that their chances of being purchased and treated adequately highly reduces most of their survival rates.

One of the places that I try not to go in to are the A.S.P.C.A. and Animal Shelters, I have never left one yet with out crying like a baby and feeling like a piece of scum, and dirty. Not something that I enjoy or look forward to doing, ever.

I was at work when I accidentally knocked over my picture of my parents. Well as I went to bend over to pick it up my pants ripped in the rear end in front of my boss! How embarrassing is that! Thank goodness that I was near a shopping mall so I could go over and pick out a new pair of pants for the rest of the day at work. My boss being the sweetheart that she is, let me take off work for an hour to go buy a pair. I was relieved when I found a pair within the first 5 minutes of being there so I didn’t have to walk around with a hole in my rear.