Orchids to …
• the Columbus City Utilities for record response in hooking up an irrigation meter.
• the former federal official who as leader of the COVID-19 task force saved millions of lives with warp speed vaccine policy.
• Pastor Dennis Chasteen for reminding us that our value is greater than our sin.
• The Republic for publishing links to the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor testimony in Vectren’s rate case.
• President Joe Biden for helping us put the hate and division of the last four years behind us and providing a focused vaccination program quickly returning our lives back to normal.
• Lucabe’s for using the old Irwin Union bank building for their new coffee shop.
• the Bennetts of Burnsville for helping me when I got my lawn mower stuck.
• the FBI as they work to bring everyone to justice that was part of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
• the family on Legal Tender Road for the latest decorations on their bale of hay.
• Former President Donald Trump and everyone who still considers him their president.
• Alex at Target’s electronics for being such a wonderful person and he deserves to be employee of the year for helping fix my phone.
• the media that truthfully show what it happening at the southern border.
• my family, son and grandchildren for a birthday party they gave me on Saturday afternoon with presents and cake and bare faces, from Grammy.
Onions to …
• the group of motorcyclists riding at a very high speed on State Road 46 on Easter Sunday.
• company leader scolding on election laws.
• turning County Road 200W into a dirt road and ruining many driveways widening the road.
• white supremacists who are not welcome, but may feel “invited” due to the state official’s continued racist comments and social media postings.
• the player who cries and stops every game with an “injury.”
• funding the release of rioters and looters.
• anyone thinking there still would have been changes to state voting laws if the former guy had won.
• the executive critical of the voter law, as I pass a guard and scan my ID to get into his building.
• baseball for their incredible hypocrisy of moving the game to a state that has more restrictive voting laws.
• television show for showing they are just a wing of the far left when trying to smear the state official.
• whatever slime pit the political party recruits their congressional candidates from.
• the extreme idiocy of the new voting law trying to keep some people from being able to vote.
• the political party that now believes it can only win by anti-democratic measures.
• our government spending billions to save the environment when all people need to do is carry a trash bag in their vehicle.
• those more concerned about illegal children coming across the border than they are about millions of babies being aborted every year.
• rising gasoline prices.
• our current federal elected officials.
• littering the highway with signs, it will be a hazard to state highway mowing crew.
Happy Birthday to …
• Albert Parrigin, from the Lighthouse Tabernacle.
• Anita Havron, from your family and Donna.
• Alan Fillenworth, from your family and Donna.
• William Jackson on No. 85, from your family.
Happy Birthday to …
• Thomas Gifford, from your greatest Aunts Kim and Pamela.
Happy Anniversary to …
• Karen and Rod Wilson, from your family and Donna.
• Happy Belated Anniversary to…
• Mike and Jane Plummer, from your family and Donna.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
