Orchids to …
• Sean and Angie for teaching us how to play Pickleball on Sunday, from Eric and Cindy.
• Harold Loyd for donating the awesome sweet corn to the nutrition site and to The Salvation Army.
• Keith Guthrie for the tasty corn, from the Long family.
• the man in the red truck at Starbucks on National Road on July 19 for buying my coffee, from the lady in the silver Dodge Caliber.
Onions to …
• the person who complained about Onions.
• neighbors who knowingly cut over property lines hoping to cause problems.
• people who are quick to forget 11 other presidents had no military background, including the past two Democratic Party presidents.
• people who complain about pets and landlords who have a no-pet policy.
• the newspaper for putting advertisements on the front page.
• the city for not reworking Gladstone and McKinley streets, among the worst streets in Columbus.
• Indiana for bragging about having a budget surplus but making its taxpayers drive and damage their vehicles on chip-and-seal roads.
• stay-at-home moms who believe that buying an expensive camera suddenly makes them a professional photographer.
• the teen boy who was rude to his mother as she coached his soccer team.
• anyone who doesn’t think that one of the presidential campaigns is anything but a huge ruse and reality show.
• the person at the local store who took my sister’s $60 in cash back from the self-checkout line that she forgot.
• the person who stole a bicycle from a handicapped child.
Happy Birthday to …
• Cooper Smith.
• Wendy Warner, a sweet, beautiful woman, from Adam Warner.
• Don Goecker, from Bob, Jeri, Mom, Julie, Dallas, Sarah and the rest of the family.
• Charlene Luker, from your other sisters.
• Hannah Weddle, from Grandma and Grandpa Weddle.
• James Seaborne, from your friends at work.
• Mark Hege, from friends at the Moravian Church and your mother.
• Nathan Eberhart, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• Beth Sullivan, from Joseph Hart Chapter DAR.
• Jacob Flack.
• Andrea Flack.
• Martha Mayes.
• Trevor Frazee.
• Casey Absher.
• Patricia Dooley, from Donnella and Vicki.
• Eric Wilcox, from Aunt Jean.
• Allison Scott on No. 23, from Mom, Dad, Matthew, Jordan, Judy, Luna and Emma.
• Shelby Davis, from Uncle Mike, Aunt Pat and all the family.
• Happy Belated Birthday to…
• Abby Walls, from friends at the Moravian Church.