Orchids to …
• those who choose to honor our veterans every day by wearing a mask in public, to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 to them.
• our wonderful volunteers for placing flags, from Garland Brook Cemetery.
• all of those who are venturing out and patronizing restaurants and giving generous tips to the wait staff.
• Steve Wright, from a thankful neighbor, Frank.
• the parents who say they are not willing to send their children back to school, because they are wise enough to know it is not safe to reopen until there is more testing and a vaccine for this virus.
• the federal elected official for his leadership during this time despite constant criticism that’s politically motivated.
• the man on Flintwood Drive who gave my son $60 for a graduation surprise gift, it was appreciated.
• the ladies in the Bartholomew County Jail for making all of us masks, from all of us in Sam’s Club.
• the lady who paid for my Starbucks in the drive-thru line, you made my day, from Sheila.
• Columbia University for their study confirming that implementing social distancing one week earlier would have saved 36,000 deaths.
• Ray and Nancy for checking on older folks in the neighborhood.
• Hope for continuing to honor those who served through the Memorial Day celebration.
Onions to …
• the politician whose disingenuous “apology” for his social media post was an attempt to make himself the victim, when simply more awareness and better decision making earlier would have avoided the entire situation.
• conservative TV telling people to get back to work in unsafe conditions while they broadcast from their homes, safe and sound.
• the male employee at the large box store for having his mask not covering his mouth or nose.
• the person who knows so much about everything a federally elected official does.
• those who still think COVID-19 is not much different than the flu.
• the quintessential politician campaigning during a pandemic and refusing to wear a mask which is a courtesy and a protection for others around him.
• the current and last major recessions which occurred under Republican stewardship and the carnage they have wrought on the average American and small businesses through their incompetence and never-ending pursuit of rewarding their wealthy donors via tax cuts, bailouts and general corruption.
• our state for not going by CDC guidelines.
• homeowners who believe the chemical suppliers who say to buy poison to kill the clover in your yard and then to buy fertilizer to make up for what the clover was supplying for free, just mow, it will be fine, natural, easy and cheap.
• the federal elected official who gave most of the stimulus money to his donors, political supporters and cronies, rather than the American people where it was supposed to go.
• all the people who are driving in the right-hand lane of U.S. 31 North that is closed for repaving and driving at excessive speeds.
• a family member who didn’t care about COVID-19 and infected my elderly mom and my brother, who is now in the hospital.
• the political party that wants to make voter fraud and voting by non-citizens easier.
• the conspiracy theory that the military leader’s name was “unmasked,” because it was never “masked” on the key intelligence document.
• taxpayer dollars given to a maxed-out donor in the amount of $27 million, along with giving the re-election work $2.85 million, as well as giving an U.S. ambassador’s family a $5.5 million loan.
• many small- and middle-sized businesses not being able to get stimulus money and yet the federal elected official’s campaign manager got quite a significant loan from it.
• anyone who thinks that the COVID-19 virus ended and was only the flu.
• people who don’t realize that the purpose of wearing a mask is to protect other people from the mask wearer, therefore, if all are wearing masks, it will protect us all and the the rate of infection will decrease significantly.
• those who doesn’t realize that holding the county fair exposes hundreds of people to the virus who then inadvertently spread it to many others they came into contact with without actually knowing it.
Happy Birthday to …
• Jane Plummer, from your family and Donna.
• Carolyn Hopkins, from your family and Donna.
• Samantha Barnette, from Joseph Hart Chapter DAR.
• Hannah Brokenshire, from friends.
• Joslin Klaire Perry, from Grandma Tricia.
Happy Birthday to …
• Alice Shewmake (Mom), love Ashley, Mike, and Christa.
• Happy Belated Anniversary to…
• Ronald and Nancy Murphy Speer, from all of your Bartholomew County friends.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
