Orchids to …
• Trent from Barkes, Weaver and Glick Funeral Home for his kind assistance in the burial of our parents, from the Randalls.
• Love Chapel and their volunteers who gave away milk on Tuesday, even in the pouring rain they were smiling and having fun! Great job thanks for what you do for our community, from a grateful family.
• Jim Arthur for always being so kind but especially this past Sunday morning when I had a surprise flat tire, he is a wonderful neighbor, from Graz.
• Tim who paid for my Starbucks drink in Taylorsville yesterday morning.
• the first class that graduated from the jail’s new addiction program, we are very proud of you.
• the first five gals and their instructor in the recovery program, you go girls!
• Tom Lee’s excellent letter, and perhaps a law should be passed requiring the wearing of masks because this virus is highly contagious and spreading increasingly and quickly.
• the national leader whose moral compass and courage can be compared to any decorated, battle-tested Marine Corps general.
• current and retired military leaders for speaking up in favor of the right to free speech guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and against those who would use the military to deny it.
• the wall around the White House finally being completed.
• those who understand that terms such as “best president” and other such superlatives submitted daily are hyperbole with no basis in reality.
Onions to …
• those looking to close our golf courses yet proceeding with a multi-million dollar riverfront project that very few want.
• permitting gatherings with hundreds of people during the pandemic.
• the people making decisions exacerbating the cost of living and attractiveness of being a Bartholomew County resident.
• people not realizing we don’t have a race problem in America, we have a God problem in America.
• the federal elected official who finally got his fence, only it’s around the White House, not the border of Mexico.
• the local business owner who doesn’t wear a mask or make an effort to take COVID-19 protocols for extra cleaning and disinfecting.
• our election process which has allowed the minority party’s candidate to win the most recent election over the will of the majority of the people.
• ridiculous conspiracy tweets from the federal elected official about the elderly protester shoved to the ground by police and seriously injured — he should unite the country and stop watching far-right fringe websites.
• the federal elected official who spends his time playing golf and watching right-wing propaganda outlets, but is too busy to testify before Congress.
• the federal leader for his ridiculous tweet about the 75-year-old man shoved and knock unconscious by police.
• the store in Columbus where the only ones wearing masks are the customers.
• the older man harassing me in a store by saying “I’m wearing a mask” repeatedly until he was told to stop, very uncomfortable and scary.
• whoever broke into my car and took my friend’s memorial bracelet of his death.
• those who harass and threaten elderly people despite it being a felony.
• the politician who spends too much time counting the money he’s keeping to worry about making sure our laws are enforced and our county is safe for legal residents.
• the athlete who showed his weakness and disrespected his grandfather.
• voters who forget which party gave us fake Russia and impeachment scandal and extended economic lockdown and is now trying to divide us racially.
• those who are unaware of the views of Black Lives Matter on capitalism and family structure.
• the federal elected official who refused to wear a mask while visiting and touring a plant, which forced destroying the hard work of employees and masks made because they were contaminated.
• those walking in government buildings not wearing masks, spreading their germs.
• government officials saying they knew nothing regarding a disgusting, untrue tweet by the federal elected official regarding a 75-year-old frail elderly protestor shoved to the ground by a police officer.
• utilities for new programs where you call this business and they handle collecting the payments because it is terrible.
• the federal elected official who has had the voting rights act sitting on his desk for the past 180 days.
• the federal elected official for tweeting a conspiracy theory.
• the federal elected official who said he had not seen the tweet or video regarding the 75-year-old Buffalo protestor, where has he been?
• the federal elected officials who continue to say “I know nothing.”
Happy Birthday to …
• Christina Greathouse, from Mom (Becky), Uncle Ron, Aunt Jan, Aunt Retha, Jimmy, Monica, and the rest of your family.
• Bill Malone, from your family and friends.
• Happy Belated Anniversary to…
• Michael and Diana Bova on No. 64, from your friends with the Pacers’ Fan Club.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
