Orchids to …
• Gina Perkins, Deana Hawkins and my daughter Deanna Wenzler for the help, food and love shown to me after I tripped taking my dogs into my home, from Karen O’Connor.
• Jim Sheridan for his well-written letter to the editor showing he still cares for the youth in our community.
• John Finke for going above and beyond to help and support our little church and Chain Breaker Ministries.
• Those that realize that it is not land nor locations that vote but people, and that eliminating the electoral college means the majority of people select the president that represents the entire nation while local populations still have Congress to represent them.
• Jim Sheridan for his important letter to the editor.
• Our family and friends for helping us celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary on Sunday, from Don and Patsy Harris.
• Myra Schilling for her thought-provoking letter that points out some of the many flaws in our local government and for discussing that local officials need to be accountable for their actions.
• Naomi Fleetwood-Pyle for an outstanding job of directing the funny musical “Church Basement Ladies.”
• everyone who realizes that Trump isn’t bringing our troops from Syria but instead is sending them to Iraq and Saudi Arabi.
Onions to …
• U.S. Rep. Greg Pence for choosing his broadband bill over our democracy, as was told to me by his office.
• everyone who continues to spread the myth that coming into contact with the drug Fentanyl by just touching it, even in a powder form, is harmful in any way.
• people who can’t follow traffic laws and pass on a double yellow.
• people with a short memory, because Barack Obama built this economy, not Trump.
• all those who think President Trump is worth saving.
• the high school that has to shoot off fireworks every weekend and scare my dogs to death.
• the high school that sounded off numerous cannon booms on Friday night.
• the media outlet that is obviously far left.
• whomever was in charge of the sound system before the Friday night football game, because it was too loud and bordered on obscene.
• all those who could not have cared less about Syria and the Kurds until President Trump pulled our warriors out.
• those who would rid us of the Electoral College, because without it most of the country may as well not even vote as the coastal states would be the only ones who mattered.
• those who would do away with the Electoral College, for without it elections would be determined by voters in large population centers, mainly Democrats, and the more rural Conservative vote would never count.
• those who support abolishing the Electoral College, as doing so would mean large cities like Los Angeles and New York would elect our presidents.
• those who do not understand that nationalism leads to wars.
• the U.S. veteran who shamefully supports the president’s shameful, impulsive decision to desert an ally on the battlefield.
• those who focus on a border wall, which will do little to nothing to affect the drug problem in Columbus, because most of the drugs come in our country in through legal port, air, or shipping.
• those who judge hate groups by how they treat you when you are not their indented victim.
• drivers who won’t get over and share the road on country roads and instead rather have you drive in the ditch to avoid getting your mirror smacked off.
• Republicans who love this president more than their own country and should go back where they came from.
• the shoot-from-the-hip president and his erratic policy policy decisions, which certainly must be based on something other than what we currently understand.
• “true believers” in Donald Trump who swallow everything he says as being “gospel.”
• the newspaper carrier for not putting the newspaper in a plastic bag when the porch was only a foot away.
Happy Birthday to …
• Jeanne Blackburn, from your Daughters of Isabella sisters.
• Billy Lazzell, from Mom and Dad.
• Joyce Henderson on No. 70, from Coco and Michael, Carolyn and Steve, and Sharon and Linda.
• Julie Johnson, from Pat, Mike and family.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
