Orchids to …
• Bailey at the Whitfield Drive Walmart for giving me the change I needed on Memorial Day.
• Kroger floral manager Jessie for her super support of Hope American Legion Post 229 in their Memorial Day recognition services, because she helped make the day.
• Pete Buttigieg for being everything that President Trump and Vice President Pence are not: a Rhodes Scholar and military man, and for making the U.S. and Indiana proud.
• people who attempt to acquire their news from a variety of sources so that they don’t get bamboozled by any one channel that might spin things a certain way.
• Michael Cohen who said that people who do things for the president will land them in jail.
• Central Middle School CSA eighth-grade students and teachers for selecting suicide awareness and prevention as the theme for Carnival for a Cause, because more than 800 students learned the warning signs for depression and suicide.
• administrators, teachers, and students who respect and follow school rules and policies and make a positive school environment.
• all of the volunteers for helping set up for our 10th annual butterfly ceremony, from Garland Brook Cemetery.
• the city of Columbus for thinking about becoming a “blue zone” and improving the quality of life for its citizens.
• Barney Quick for the awesome article he wrote about Cecil Jackson in the Salute special section, because it was awesome.
• my husband for giving me three or four chances in our marriage and it’s going well.
• the lady who paid for my order at the east-side Burger King, because it was very much appreciated.
• Jim Darnell on a 50-year career with BCSC, and on his retirement.
• our wonderful volunteers for all of your assistance placing veterans flags, from Garland Brook Cemetery.
Onions to …
• managers for not drug testing restaurant employees and not screening for hepatitis A.
• the president for saying Joe Biden has a low IQ yet doesn’t do enough to address missile testing by Kim Jon Un despite being advised otherwise.
• the writer who thinks the president has done nothing to warrant the investigations into his activity.
• the president who appears enamored with various dictators and bad actors around the world and seems less interested in our allies.
• people that think it’s alright to let dogs urinate on your flowers in other people’s yards.
• the person who wrote the letter about wanting to legalize pot, because everything in that letter was a re-run for what happened when they wanted to legalize alcohol.
• the president who made a fool of America on the world stage.
• those who have little trust in government to do anything right, but who will trust the government to make reproductive decisions for American women.
• the heavily traveled Hawcreek Avenue that is full of holes and bumps that needs to be repaved.
Happy Birthday to …
• Taylor Rouse, from your family, co-workers, Missy and Donna
• Nicole Jones from your family and Donna
• Katie Putman, from Elsie.
• Beth Hege, from Grandma Hege.
• Susan Thompson.
• Sarah Tedder.
• Nicholas Everhaart, from friends at the Moravian Church.
• Troy Watson.
• Eddie Litteral, from Luretta and Jimmy Fields
Happy Anniversary to …
• Sandie and Tim Goodwin on No. 48, from family and friends
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
