Orchids to …
• Lora Coles for always being so helpful in the car pickup line, we really appreciate your help, from the kindergarten TA’s.
• Gordon Starr’s letter.
• a concerned parent advocating for the safety of their children and their neighborhood.
• the day we change voting in presidential elections to reflect the will of the people instead of the rigged Electoral College process.
• Kelly Hawes.
• Joe Biden, who predicted in January that a pandemic was coming that perhaps the top two federal officials should have read, instead of dismantling the pandemic office.
• Jennifer Griffin on FOX for confirming the federal elected official’s comments regarding the military.
• all voters who rely on being educated and well informed about the candidates instead of relying on intuition when voting.
• Grace, Charlotte, Lyla, and Myah for the lovely flowers and their thoughtfulness.
• the guy who paid for our meal at Waffle House.
• Rep. Greg Pence for attending the funeral service of the World War II Marine who was returned home to Indiana.
• true believers in God who know supporting any form of abortion is wrong and against the Fifth Commandment.
• Congress members who are trying to keep Obamacare for the elderly and the no-income people and protecting Social Security.
Onions to …
• local leaders worried about tax revenue shortfalls, yet continuing to spend on conference centers and unneeded road improvements during a pandemic.
• whoever would consider going door to door for Halloween during a pandemic — cancel it like everything else.
• whoever is responsible for patching large sections of Hawcreek Boulevard two weeks ago and now has closed the whole road, wasting time and money!
• the waste of money on a hotel and conference center that may not be used because of the pandemic.
• a city using tax money to build new spaces when there are so many vacant buildings and unemployed people in town.
• people personally delivering absentee ballots to the clerks office but cannot get out to vote on Nov 3.
• school district that actually thinks elementary teachers have time to drive a bus and teach class.
• the vandals in the Parkside school area.
• those who aren’t aware the COVID-19 U.S. death toll is predicted to double by January.
• those who think rioting and looting are OK, but canceled other lawful gatherings.
• people who think other people’s thoughts are drivel.
• the columnist writing a beautiful piece about fall and just had to turn it political.
• a system of government allowing an impeached official to retain any significant authority.
• the candidate, who among other lies, is not telling the truth about marital status and past credit problems.
• the federal elected official dismissing the COVID-19 disaster while the U.S. has more than 200,000 deaths — the most of any country in the world.
• people who haven’t figured out that isolation and loneliness are linked with major health risks in all ages.
• the federal leader who continues to lie and deny his utter failure in stemming the pandemic and his legacy of more than 200,000 American deaths.
• the individual who handed out Russian cash to kill Americans in Afghanistan.
• the very swampy move of a federal elected official in commuting Roger Stone’s prison sentence.
• the columnist who said that emergencies do not last for months on end — the virus is going stronger than it did in the beginning.
• the cruel person trying to bust the little girl’s dreams about the Crump.
• the employer eliminating several jobs but keeping a former executive who lives in another state on the payroll.
• people who cannot keep their cats under control and out of other people’s yards.
• the restaurant plastering menu signs all over the street light pole.
• federal elected officials for trying to take away Obamacare and hurt the American people who need it.
• all the misguided elected officials who put politics before any regard for health and have lost sight of their core values.
• the federal elected official who is not lucid even half the time.
Happy Birthday to …
• Jim Lyons, from your family and Donna.
• Sheila Peda, from your family and Donna.
• Darlene Abplanalp, from Joseph Hart Chapter DAR.
• Brian Thompson, from Kimberly.
• Brandon Andress on No. 50, from all of us.
• my wife Debra Bailey on No. 60, from your husband Jeff and Justin and Debi Bailey.
• Sean Kerns, from Mom, Dad, and Victoria.
• Patty Brock, from your friends.
• Julia Helen Swegman, love Mom and Dad and all your family.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
