Orchids to …
• Kermet Key and Bob Hyatt for their great letters to the editor, which are both are right on.
• the president.
• President Trump for standing up to Chuck and Nancy.
• a great letter from Kermet Key.
• Steve Bayer for being such a great coach, because we enjoyed being on your team this year, from Hunter and Gage.
• the staff at Four Seasons for making my father Lloyd Spencer’s stay at Four Seasons so tolerable and dignified.
• Jason Long for cleaning snow from my sidewalk and deck, from Grandma.
• my great neighbor, John Delap, for shoveling my driveway and also for bringing my toters up to the house for me.
• Voelz Body Shop for a job well done, from Marie S.
• the high school student wanting to install a baby box in Columbus.
• Domino’s Pizza and its new manager, who is wonderful.
Onions to …
• the Senate majority leader for his refusal to call a vote on bills that would reopen parts of the government impacted by the shutdown.
• top majority leaders for hypocrisy and not wanting a border wall.
• the Speaker of the House for having a barrier around her house to keep people out.
• whoever doesn’t understand that a horn is not a whistle.
• those who don’t realize the complaints about train horns are not about safety but about being woken up three or more times a night.
• the city for spending money on the riverfront instead of spending it on proper crossing gates so we wouldn’t depend on the safety of train horns in the middle of the night.
• the person who said that Trump is more interested in pleasing Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Vladimir Putin than the American people.
• people who don’t like to hear the train sounds, because they need to move away from the tracks.
• the Senate leader not allowing the vote to re-open parts of the government impacted by the shutdown.
Happy Birthday to …
• Marissa Souza, from your family, Noreen and Donna.
• Trevor Lirette, from G-ma and G-pa Edgell.
• Beth Gifford, from Dad and Judy.
• Nicholas Mann on your 11th birthday, from Mom, Dad, Abby, Maddie and Eli.
• Tom Goddard, on No. 75, from your wife, Judy.
• Betty Johnson, from your friends at AT&T.
• Beth Gifford, from your west-coast family.
• Ty Uphaus, on your 15th birthday, from Grandma and Grandpa Zappe.
• Belated Happy Birthday to…
• Durand Meyer on No. 17, from the Hege family.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
