Orchids to …
• our friends at AEI and the city garage for going above and beyond in helping us find our beloved dog Jenny, from Larry West and West company employees.
• Doug Otto for spelling it out so clearly.
• Brandie, service coordinator at All Saint’s apartments, for keeping the residents engaged with activities during the pandemic.
• Sonja, John and Brandie for the meals and treats during the last eight months and for doing your best to keep us safe.
• Kaitlyn at Walmart West for extra good service.
• Columbus Police Officer Nicholas Schmitt for giving a talk about citizenship, from Boy Scout Troop 549.
• Marilyn Hayes for her well-written letter.
• Tire Barn for the amazing and quick service getting a mom and her daughters back on the road safely.
• churches that dress up for Halloween, pass out candy and serve the community like Jesus would.
• retired Admiral McCraven for saying if we remain indifferent to our role in the world, if we retreat from our obligations to our citizens and our allies, and if we fail to choose the right leader, we will pay the highest price for our neglect and shortsightedness.
• our president for the job he’s doing running on the truth and nothing but the truth.
• our new Supreme Court Justice.
• Keith and Joy Reising for the apple dumplings, from Peggy.
• Doug Otto’s letter.
• Dana Bodart for your wonderful kindness, from the Perry’s.
• President Trump, who works to support the government of our country like our Founding Fathers intended.
• the kind person in the Walmart parking lot who stopped and picked up a lady’s lost keys and gave them to her.
Onions to …
• the school system setting guidelines and then not following them.
• prior federal elected official for starting all the division in the nation.
• those who believe the candidate is going to do anything about the virus that the current administration hasn’t done.
• most major networks, social media, and big tech who abandoned all sense of principle, integrity, objectivity, honesty, and patriotism to satisfy an addiction to power.
• those who don’t realize fearing and being obedient to someone who supposedly loves you is an abusive relationship.
• the federal elected official super spreader who, like “Typhoid Mary,” spreads disease wherever he goes.
• the federal elected official and his anti-ecological administration which is destroying this earth.
• the neighbors’ cat that trespasses daily.
• the federal elected official who has desecrated the values and principles that make America a haven for its citizens and a beacon to the world.
• the federal elected official who pals up to dictators.
• the federal elected official who has lawyers at the ready to make court appeals to disenfranchise the votes of thousands of military personnel who have been mailed on time but may not arrive to states until the day after the election.
• the individual who removed the political sticker from my car.
• the candidate who has now changed his tone on how he would end the virus.
• the political party for running on nothing but a bed of lies and those who believe the lies.
• the city for not canceling trick or treat when the cases are rising.
• the mole in the White House.
• judges and prosecutors allowing criminals to walk free only to seriously injure or kill another innocent person.
• the person who ran our mailbox over and didn’t even come to the door to tell us about it.
• the company who cuts the top out of trees and leaves the rest of the tree to fall across the road.
• political ads from both parties that tell truth especially about pre-existing conditions because there are no protections if the Affordable Care Act is overturned.
Happy Birthday to …
• Lisa Earnhart, from your family and friends.
• Tim Reinbold, love your wife Martha.
• James West, from all your Brown and Bartholomew County friends.
• Betty Kiefer, from Evelyn and Charisse.
• Pat Armstrong, from Evelyn and Charisse.
• Junior, from Jacob, Tiffany, Sue, Donny Idol, Rodger Sr., Wilma, Rodger Jr., Dawn, Terri, family and friends.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
