Orchids to …
• the Paswaters for looking after the cats and watching out for our house while we were away.
• Marie in my Mill Race exercise class for helping me wipe up the water when my bottle spilled during class.
• President Trump for making us safer.
• Discount Tire for fixing my flat tire at no cost.
• Taylorsville Baptist Church Pastor Tom Collect.
• people who pay attention to the data and see that masks work.
• Mrs. Morlok, Mrs. Winters, Mrs. Bontrager, and Mrs. Boyd who make learning magical and fun!
• Jill Long Thompson for the great column regarding the need for ethics for democracy to work.
• Dr. Robert R. Redfield, Director of the CDC, for never being confused about the truth or science.
• Scientific American for its first presidential endorsement in its 175-year history
• the Speer family.
• the young people that bought my groceries at Kroger’s on Sunday, from the old Vietnam veteran.
• President Trump and all his supporters.
• the 14th Street newspaper carrier for getting my paper to where I can get to it.
• CRH Emergency Room staff and doctors, especially Dr. Lee, and third floor nurses, from Edna.
• Clifford Fire Fish Fry and all the people who worked so hard to put it on.
• the town council member who always does her homework before voting.
• all the workplaces that require a temperature check before allowing them to go to work.
• Grossman Tree Service for doing an excellent job removing the pin oak from my property.
• Jay Phelps and his crew at the clerk’s office for getting out the ballots for us to vote early and by mail.
Onions to …
• letter writer that wants to devalue all areas of Columbus.
• the federal elected official who thinks his appearance is more important than actually governing.
• the idea to build a new bank and leave another architectural wonder sit abandoned and decaying.
• the driver that loiters around a local park morning, noon and night.
• the neighbor that throws dog feces at our house.
• the federal elected official for once again denying the knowledge of experts and science.
• officials that aren’t thinking if you lower the price of golf like a $5 pizza you’d have more money coming in than you could imagine.
• the federal elected official who is confused about the difference between “herd mentality” and “herd immunity.”
• capitalism for needing to be bailed out by socialism every 10 years.
• the people that can’t see the last six months of a two-week lock down are about something much, much more than a virus.
• Big Ten Conference university presidents for allowing themselves to be played and used as a political prop.
• the naive guest columnist who again bashes our president.
• the federal elected official who is traveling and putting people in harm’s way to massage his ego.
• the federal elected official’s voting rights and civil rights violations.
• those who do not realize that enforcing the mask mandate is dangerous and people have been killed doing so.
• the veterinarians that will not come to my home to euthanize my elderly dog.
• those that don’t think the Ten Commandments should be adhered to, especially pastors and politicians.
• the big box store that only has one cashier for all the customers all the time.
• people who preach and rave about not wanting to wear a mask when we all know that covering your face keeps the spread of germs down.
Happy Birthday to …
• Shiloh Watkins, from Pastor Marvin Brown and Trinity Baptist Church.
• Mary Sue Stone, from Joseph Hart Chapter DAR.
Happy Anniversary to …
• Joey Fox, from Mandy.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
