Orchids to …
• Animal Control for promptly picking up dead animals along Rocky Ford Road.
• The daily count of new coronavirus cases to remind us that a change in federal leadership is greatly needed.
• President Donald Trump.
• our next president, Joe Biden.
• Madelyn and Albany Speer for getting their driver’s license.
• President Donald Trump for getting people to vote early.
• Libertarian Donald Rainwater for believing in individual choice and responsibility.
• Doug Otto for his letter.
• Bartholomew County REMC for continued support of the community.
• Larry and Melissa Neal at Rust Unger Monuments for all your help and hard work with making and designing Daisy and Malcolm Gardner’s stone, from Matt Buzzard and family.
• Doug Otto’s letter that makes clear, if for no other reason than the sake of our children, we must not re-elect the president next week.
• Doug Otto for the accurate and important letter stating it’s past time to get rid of the hate, bigotry, and intolerance.
• Linda at CVS on National Road for going above and beyond Tuesday helping someone who was having a really bad day with a prescription.
• Jim and Telesa Meyers for the wonderful and exciting golden retriever puppy reunion party.
• Kathy Hershey at Utopia Wildlife Rehabilitators for taking in the injured red-tail hawk.
• Doug Otto for so elegantly stating our fears if leadership doesn’t change.
• President Trump for standing up to all foreign countries because his opponent will not.
• Doug Otto’s great, on-spot letter.
• President Trump fulfilling his 2016 campaign promises.
• President Trump and Black leaders creating the Platinum Plan, $500 billion investment in Black communities.
• the good and kind twin brothers at Lowe’s who helped us move our purchases to the car.
Onions to …
• not understanding this election is between the incumbent wishing away COVIE-19 and the 227,000 American deaths, and the candidate who will face it and listen to the experts.
• television network for passing on a conspiracy laptop story which has been proven to have been started by Russian propaganda.
• the current administration continuing to divide this country.
• those who worry about overwhelming the hospitals and now the mental health industry which tells me there is a health care preparedness problem, not a virus problem.
• allowing trick or treating, but canceling a veteran’s ceremony.
• the school district for not giving full information about virus cases.
• school secretaries who are rude to staff and visitors.
• people wanting stricter mask enforcement, just stay home and hide in fear and let the rest of us live our lives as we decide.
• the column writer who forgets the real meaning behind the Second Amendment.
• having the state elected official debate so late after early voting started.
• thinking the current federal elected official is the one who started the hate and division within our country.
• the federal leader who could have flattened the curve, but instead pressured governors and others to open up everything, and is now whining about the worst virus spikes ever.
• the messed-up logic of calling declining revenues “encouraging.”
• the federal elected official who behaves like everyone’s little neighborhood brat, when the game doesn’t go his way, he takes his ball and goes home.
• the federal elected official who is trying to remove coverage for pre-existing conditions so insurance companies no longer have to cover them and vows to dismantle Social Security and Medicare if re-elected.
• the federal elected official who is jealous of virus media coverage.
• the federal elected official who proves how little he actually cares about his supporters when he bussed thousands into his Nebraska rally but left them stranded in freezing temperatures with no buses out and some ending up in the hospital.
• the federal elected official in court trying to block pandemic food aid for the lowest-income Americans.
• the lady driving 50 mph up and down Griffa Avenue.
• those believing the police are the problem rather than dealing with the actual problem.
• the candidate who pretends people harass her, bothering law enforcement.
Happy Birthday to …
• John Tinkey on No. 70, from all your friends in Rockcreek Township.
• Jan Poole, from your family, Marilyn and Donna.
• John Tinkey, from your old friends J. and D.
• Kelsey Crosby, love Billy.
• Rachel Fulp on No. 12, from Grandma and Grandpa.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
