Orchids to …
• St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and the ladies who prepared a wonderful lunch for the family and friends of Margaret Volland, from Max.
• the cast and production crew at Willow Leaves of Hope for a delightful performance of “Farce of Nature” and a delicious meal.
• the heavy equipment operator who was delivering the backhoe at 17th Street near the hospital and called the police for the distressed runners.
• the staff at Bartholomew County Public Library for keeping the library clean, safe, attractive, efficient and creative
• the sheriff for wanting something done about the cross walk in front of the jail.
• the three Kroger employees and others who stopped by to help me when I fell on the sidewalk in front of the store.
• the girls at Webb’s garage for fixing my car window yesterday.
Onions to …
• the driver of the black car that passed on a double yellow line on Carr Hill Road.
• evangelicals who support the president and his non-Christian behavior past and present.
• the driver of the white Subaru passing on a double yellow on Terrace Lace Road Sunday.
• the City of Columbus that pays about $4 million toward the purchase of FairOaks Mall, pays $1 million toward the rebuild of Indiana University’s Columbus home of its new master’s of architecture program and wants to spend $8.6 million on a Riverfront project, but doesn’t seem to have money to pave our streets.
• the Democrats who cannot see the sunshine that our president has sprinkled on the world.
• the neighbor who constantly lies about her past and believes those she tells do not know better in this small community.
• those who keep their priorities on developing downtown (more) and not seeing that the rest of Columbus is rotting from the inside out.
• the president who keeps saying he is protecting pre-existing conditions while pushing his court case for full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which gives people with pre-existing conditions protection, which they would lose if he won his case.
• anyone who sends robocalls.
• law enforcement unable or unwilling to enforce traffic laws in front of its own buildings.
• the helmet-wearing father who had children behind his bicycle in the cart, who had nothing to protect their heads.
Happy Birthday to …
• Raul Valero-Osuna, from your family and co-workers.
• Eleanor Schoumacher, from Mom and Dad.
• Grace Schuette, from Aunt Mary and Aunt Elsie.
• Molly Land.
• Madilyn Ellison, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• Doug Meek.
• Willow Hartwell.
• Jane Eaglen.
• Annessa Thayer.
• Troy Bishop, on No. 50, from Luretta and your friends at AT&T.
• Doug Meek, from the Pools.
• Krista Sturgeon, from your mom and daughter, Ashley.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
