Orchids to …
• Flowers By Lois for the beautiful flower arrangement (from Lenora) and the nice gentleman who made the delivery, from Ronnie and Sheilla Allen.
• Rhonda and Morey LaSaell for helping to make our anniversary special, from Ronnie and Shiella Allen.
• Menards for requiring customers to wear a mask, all stores need to step it up and do the same.
• former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
• NASCAR for banning the Confederate flag from all of its races and properties.
• Dustin Renner for his letter to the editor on Friday.
• the nice gentleman at UPS for helping me locate a package that is being delivered to my mom, from Myrtle Holmstead and Amy Young.
• Menards for all employees and customers wearing masks for safety, we appreciate all you do.
• Gen. Mark Milley for apologizing for being at the site of the burned church where peaceful American citizens were sprayed with pepper spray and apologized for created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.
• the names of military bases around the country being renamed for military personnel who did fight for our country rather than their current names.
• those fighting systemic racism and for calling out racism wherever they see it.
• Susan Cox for her article on racism and her recommendation of the movie “Just Mercy” which had a powerful message, from Jan and Jon.
• Dusty Renner for a thoughtful and purposeful letter on how we can all work and learn to be more anti-racist.
• Robert Haysmith for many years of wonderful entertainment at the Harlequin Theatre, you will be missed.
• the Target cashiers and several customers for getting water and a wheelchair and being helpful and considerate to an older lady on Wednesday.
• Gen. Jim Mattis, respected war hero, for his analysis of the present situation in Washington.
• Paul Waltz at Acra Automotive for being professional and nice and for answering every question we had.
• Scott at Chelsea Automotive on Center Street for answering all the questions we had and being very nice and professional.
Onions to …
• the livestock event planned during the week of the canceled Bartholomew County 4-H Fair, if it’s not safe to be sponsored by Purdue and the fair board, how is it safe to have.
• the federal elected official who pays no attention to internal briefings but rather reacts to the alternative facts he hears on his favorite TV channel.
• the writers of endless harangues whose political party can’t — and won’t — fill a primary ballot with candidates of their own.
• the federal leader who assured us in March the virus would go away — there are now 116,000 deaths and he is planning rallies with thousands of people.
• the box store employees wearing masks around their necks instead of on their faces.
• those who are trying to shut down Greenbelt Golf Course, it is a family-friendly course that needs to stay.
• all the protestors who helped start the second wave of the virus.
• the federal elected official who has no ability to demonstrate empathy at a time when the country is confronting three overlapping crises.
• the federal elected official who is out of touch with most Americans.
• the federal elected official’s horrible comment that it was beautiful when the military police cut through American citizens like a knife through butter.
• the federal elected official planning to hold a rally on Juneteenth in Tulsa which is a slap in the face to African Americans.
• the federal elected official who is out of step with our country and is hunkered down defeating conspiracy theories.
• anyone who doesn’t notice which political party is in charge of the cities that are descending into chaos.
• those who seem to think that vandalism is OK.
Happy Birthday to …
• Donna Preble, from Pat, Mike, and family.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
