Orchids to …
• Savory Swine for accommodating a spontaneous vegetarian burger at Neighborfest.
• Mary Sturgill for a well-written letter about why women do not play in the city tournament, from Marilyn.
• B&B Plumbing for the excellent job installing our water line.
• Columbus Police and Tony Stewart for an enjoyable, funny, professional lip sync challenge video that was well done and we loved it, from a senior citizen married couple.
• Tara at Hair Unlimited for the great haircuts.
• the woman who paid for my breakfast at McDonald’s on National Road Friday morning, because I pay it forward when I can.
• the woman in the store that helped me pay for all the food I was buying for neglected and hungry animals.
• Doug Showalter for his column regarding the Annapolis shooting at the newspaper and that it could have happened at The Republic when it was downtown.
• Jamie for his great work and help with the elderly couple last Friday.
Onions to …
• anyone who thinks that governments trying to meddle in other countries’ elections is a new thing, or that our country doesn’t do the same.
• to people who think everyone should ride in the road, because the traffic is not safe for everyone on bikes.
• to people living on courts in town who believe the whole thing is their own parking lot and everyone else should park in their own drives and not have company visit.
• people knocking on my door trying to sell me something and bothering me when I’m shopping.
• anyone who thinks the Trump administration has anything to do with Cummins’ quarterly record profits because in fact his tariffs are costing the company money.
• anybody that can compare Obama to Trump.
• people who still have a little brown dog tied up to a small tree by the railroad.
• the city leadership for short-sighted vision in the plan for trying to develop a recreational area near the river.
Happy Birthday to …
• Evelyn Pence, from your family and Donna.
• Maryka DeBusk, from The Outreach.
• Trav on No. 30, from Mom.
• Trevor Patton.
• Brian East, from Pastor Marvin Brown and Trinity Baptist Church.
• Evelyn Blackburn, from Bob, Pam and Pat.
• Andi Leigh Hege, from Grandma Hege and friends at the Moravian Church.
• Evelyn Blackburn.
• Shirley Robertson.
• Laura Johnson, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• Teresa Coovert.
• Becky Crowder.
• Brian Hagerty, from Mom and your family.
Happy Anniversary to …
• Barry and Polly Trotter, from fried at the Moravian Church.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
