http://www.cherylbeckham.com Cheryl Beckham's First Blog! Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:58:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I bet almost every American household has at least one roll of scotch tape in their house and almost anyone with an office has a rol in their desk, too. This is a fixture in our daily lives and is such a convenience. Would you believe that Scotch tape was ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/11/scotch-tape/ When my favorite grocery store puts Sobe bottled drinks on sale, I buy a huge batch of them. They are made out of glass and are difficult to tote in those little plastic bags, but it is not unusual for me to buy 10-12 of them bottles at a time. The ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/11/sobe-teas/ At the grocery store I had a difficult time deciding how much candy to buy for the kids who will be knocking on my door tonight. I finally decided to buy 4 big bags of assorted candies. They were awfully expensive for being little bite size and snack size candies, ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/10/candy-candy-candy/ It's not Halloween yet but the stores are putting out Christmas toys and decorations already. I hate that. I think most people think the same way. Yet the retailers persist in putting the Christmas things out too early in the season. That's probably a good indication of why retail is losing ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/10/confession/ Today I saw cooking tips on a TV show about how to cook a beef brisket. Brisket is a cheap cut of beef that will be dry and tough if you don't cook it right, so I have always been reluctant to try it. But after watching these tips I ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/10/beef-brisket/ As much as I dislike war and wish we didn't need the armed forces at all, I realize that we do need to have a strong military to defend our country and to help other deserving nations when they are in trouble. I don't know anyone actually in the military, although ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/10/most-macho-men-on-tv/ Tomorrow is the beginning of another school year for my 12 year old daughter, I am finding it hard to believe that she is now a 7th grader and is in middle school, and what ever happened to calling it Junior High School anyway. Seeing that she lives with her Dad ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/09/my-little-girl-now-a-7th-grader/ I actually got up on water skis and managed to hang on for a good 5 minutes or so, this has been a long time a coming. I went for a week end visit at my brother's summer beach house, where he has all of his water toys at hand ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/08/water-skiing/ All most all of the houses on my street have some sort of vegetable garden growing in their side and back yards, I do believe that I am the only one that doesn't have much of anything growing in my yard, besides some crab grass and a few trees and some ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/08/neighbors-and-their-gardens/ I do the majority of my grocery shopping at our local Food Lion, they seem to have the cheapest prices for the items that I buy regularaly. There is a few things that I can't seem to get Food Lion to carry for me, so once in a while I will ... http://www.cherylbeckham.com/08/dirt-cheap-new-books/