Orchids to …
• the very active trap, neuter, release program in Bartholomew County that has resulted in more than 330 feral and community cats “fixed” since Jan. 1 through the Community Animal Rescue Effort TNR program.
• those getting better training to attract more jobs to Columbus.
• Overhead Door for being so kind and prompt to replace parts on garage door.
• Sheryl Nulph for her letter to the editor about sensible use of the riverfront.
• our country for the secular U.S. Constitution that separates church and state.
• the Columbus mayor’s office, city engineering office, Dascal Bunch and Tom Dell for their hard work on getting the yellow stripes at the Ninth Street handicap spot, from John Tinkey.
• Jenny Wallace, for the cobbler and produce, from Elsie and Mary.
• my neighbors, Colleen, Cindy and Jill, for checking on me, for my safety and health when I was having a bad time, from Cheryl.
• people who keep their dogs inside or under a shade with plenty of cold water and care during hot weather.
• those who helped me and prayed for me while I was in the hospital, especially my minister and his wife, my kids and the neighbors in the trailer park, from Betty Lou.
• Rhonda Herman, for fixing my hair and makeup; Dana Bridgewater and Bob Kirby, for the seating arrangements; and J.D. Muir and April Arnold for helping me into the Moose Family Center and for the warm welcome back I received, from Betty Holder.
Onions to …
• Bartholomew County for being too bicycle friendly.
• those with poor taste who believe concrete cinder blocks are acceptable landscape material in a nice neighborhood instead of their intended purpose of keeping mobile homes off the floodplain.
• Democratic presidential candidates for promising the moon for a vote.
• those that think all things should be given to them.
• the idea that everyone is the same: if so, why try to excel or better yourself?
• the shopping center management for planting the tall grass bushes that block driver views of other moving cars, causing accidents.
• the Trump administration for continuing to support the lawsuit that seeks to end the ACA, which will change health care, give power back to the insurance companies, and potentially leave many without health care.
• the person driving down the road who does not understand that we are trying to sleep between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.
• those who don’t take the time to learn that immigrants seeking asylum are not illegal.
• people that don’t realize “middle ground” is not the Columbus way.
• the neighbors in the addition off County Road 150W that leave broken-down cars in the front and back yards, which is a city violation.
• the city spending taxpayer money on the riverfront when they should be spending it on the drug problem in Columbus.
• those who did not listen to the fact that the administration separated children from migrant parents, therefore the parents could not care for them.
• those who do not bother to learn that the asylum seekers are legal immigrants and that one reason they’re arriving is that our president cut aid to their countries.
• those who continue to think that abortion is a political issue when it is actually a human issue and many of both parties don’t support abortion, especially late-term abortion.
• the man in a red Silverado at a grocery store who parked sideways in a handicapped space where an elderly gentleman with a cane couldn’t even get into his car.
• the company that charges a high price when you need a commode repaired and you’re on a fixed income.
Happy Birthday to …
• Joann Sprague, from your family, Bonnie and Donna.
• Roy Stein, from your family and Donna.
• Adam Clark, from your family and Donna.
• Brendan Boewe from Mom, Dad and Jenna.
• Gerald Adams, from Lenora, Melissa, Scott, John, Christi, Sarah and Mother.
• Adam Fish, from Tabitha, Ryne, Baleigh and Spencer.
• Belated Happy Anniversary to…
• Tony and Jennifer Hawksworth Elkins on June 27: happy 21st anniversary, from all your family.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
