Author: Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine

Monday, August 31, 2009
Downloaded Ohio Historic Inventory & National Register of Historic Places forms and typed in the info John Kalb, Carroll Neidhart & I had compiled since 2005. Need exterior & interior photos – Jim Carpenter will supply.
David arrived about 4:15 & by 5:00 we were at Perkins Restaurant where Mary Merchant Gruber and Kaye Moore (Lorain, OH) were waiting. Kaye’s father, Walter Moore was a confidant of Don Williamson when he found the Carrie Phillips letters from W.G. Harding – But Kaye said ‘We couldn’t tell anyone!’ Gale & son Jim, Karen Kelly & Carol Bowman & husband ate at another table.
David & I picked up Jim Carpenter and were at OSUM Maynard Bldg by 6:15. Should have purchased James Robenalt’s book then! Sold out at end of program.
Scott Spears introduced Robenalt & John Dean was live on screen from California. He wrote the introduction. Very fair evaluation of Hardin’s presidency & accomplishments – Suggest Carrie Phillips spied on US Army camps in 1916 & reported to Gedrman officers she had met on earlier visits to Germany. I wrote my Nan Britton theory of using Phillips letters as basis for her supposed correspondence with Harding – In question period I gave Robenault the paper & asked if he would like to shake hand that shook the hand of Harding – he did – and lots more p[eople. Home by 9:30 – DH back to Cincinnati.

Sunday, August 30, 2009
Nothing accomplished except reading email and playing computer solitaire.

Saturday, August 29, 2009
.6 in rain
John Kalb waiting for me at Resource Center. He had his files on National Register of Historic Places (Ohio Preservation Office files) – I had helped him since 20051 Everything hand written. I downloaded the National Register Form & started transferring his information to it. Made duplicate copies of his & brought home to enter on computer file.
Mary Ellen Dune at Resource Cednter from 1:00 to 4:00. Seeking 4th Great-grandparents Strine because she recently received a push cart he used to return to Ohio from Indiana. Found info in 1883 & 1907 Marion Co. Histories.
To Car Wash opposite cemetery $12 with tip.
Email from Dave Decker with photos of visit with Johanna’s Dad & wife Wandra at Virginia Beach.

Friday, August 28, 2009
Dow Jones 9544
Thunderstorm 6-7 PM 1.6 in rain
Trimmed dead blooks from butterfly bush, goldenrod & hosta.
Gary Iams brought information on cashing HH Bonds – but things I already knew.
Tackled the box of MCHS papers compiled for trustees’ notebooks. Wore me out but got it all into the rolling file.
Gale on her way to visit son James in Detroit so no answer to my email about Nominating Committee membership.
Email from Dave Matyac with pix of double day lily & lantana I gave him.

Thursday, August 27, 2009
Dow Jones 9580
81° cloudy AM sunny PM
Royce didn’t pick up Jim so I had to make a trip to Patterson St. to pick him up.
Filled the red cart with grass left in windrows – unload on new compost pile. A big limb from the sycamore near the bald cypress trees – broke off a limb of the European Beech.
Jim trimmed lower branches of weeping cherry & weeded under it. Dug 3 holds for the 3 peonies I have ordered – filled with compost mixed with the soil. Got the blue softer out of the shed & sifted into the red cart from compost pile. Mixed with pet moss & filled end of potting bench. He swept out the garage & driveway. I dug crabgrass & weeds from gravel walk by greenhouse high bed. David had used Roundup on them.
Calle Kensel about coming to see his prairie but Gale had concealed so I didn’t go.
Email from Davd Matyac listing repair jobs complete at his house & with photos of dragon’s blood begonia, double day lily & lantana I gave him.
Had corn, pickled beets, cantaloupe & ham sandwich with tomato for supper.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Edward Kenney died
To Caledonia to mail letter to Warren Harding III & buy 44¢ stamps. Mowed upper side lawn.
Email from Karen Kelley about Mon – told her I would be glad for her to join us at Perkins Mon.
To Marion at 4:00 to Marion Bank to deposit rent check from Glenn McNabb thru Veterans Service. $500 for Aug – 633 Bordeaux – also signed paper received saying I hadn’t cashed a $48 dividend check – Deposit in my reg. Account.
To Women’s Club Home for taping of 3 segments of Scott Spears ‘Club’. Martha Manaci not contributing much – Mary Ann Michaels, Phil Reid, Charlie Evers & I had fund with questions like ‘Survey shows people lie 91% of the time – my reply – ‘No wonder we’re in trouble – Panel didn’t agree.
Bought corn & raspberries at Crum’s wagon $2 for half dozen but got 8 ears. $2 for pint of raspberries. Shopped at Aldi’s – $50 – Home by 7 & a real chore to unload and store all that.
Chili & crackers for supper. Recap of all the Kennedy’s lives on TV.
Tried to call Royce to remind her to pick up Jim and got a ‘not a working #’

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
12 emails. One from Mary Gruber thru Kathi inviting me to have dinner with her & Kaye Moore before the Robenalt Lecture at OSUM – Aug 28. Accepted by inviting them to join Gale, David & me who had already planned to eat together.
Wrote a letter to Warren Harding III asking for update on report that Phillips letters were in care of their family. Send copy of front page announcement of lecture.
Made a cheese cake (box type) to take to dessert buffet at Herings this evening – Garden Club of Marion meeting.
To Le Salon of Beauty at 3:00 – Marian advised contacting Peacock Water Softener to check my system. I will.
To HH at 3:45 – Bede Agner already there for Nominating Committee meeting – captive audience for Gale’s Honeymoon at Greenbriar.
Gale had trouble printing out a current membership list in Past Perfect. Not indexed. Giver me good old dBaseII that I used for years. Mike Makay agreed to be on committee – messages left for Dick Schwaderer.
Too tire to stop for groceries or got to Herings – Loaded cheese cake & crib in Utility Room freezer for Kathi’s visit. Left the Stihl chainsaw at Miller’s on SR 309 for repair.

Monday, August 24, 2009
Dow Jones 2017!
Bath-hair wash – fed birds, bfst & was checking email when David walked in about 11:00. Brought his red truck so he loaded bricks from by shed & greenhouse wall – Dug out the bricks by the crabapple across road – mowed everything across road, including Gale’s prairie – The Jerusalem Artichoke is blooming but also over whelming. He reworked the compost pile – pitch forking top of left pick into the empty right area. Soaked new area to assist decaying.
Scanned the photo of Ted Myers, Ralph Ramey, Trella & Larry Yoder by Campus Prairie sign & sent to Gary Iams for his file at OSUM.*

He helped me sieve the tomatoes I cooked with the skin on & did his computer work while I went to Reeces Mkt for hamburger & bananas – Also got a 2# ham loaf from their freezer.
Gale arrived at 5:00 – (David had a nap). Chili & ice cream for supper. He said it was good – I’ll freeze some for when Kathi is here. Told Gale Sept 20 is when Kathi will be here and the Sunday Huber Assoc always has their annual meeting. Discussed John Kalb’s obsession with getting Houghton Sulky Building on National Register. Told her Jim Carpenter said a company is operating in the building. David left at 5:45 & Gale left at 6:30. Detailed report on stay at Greenbriar Resort in W. Va. Left me a video.

[*From the email: The 1986 photo of Ted Myers, Ralph Ramey, Trella Romine and Larry Yoders includes all of us who had a part in saving the Marion Campus Prairie.

Ted Myers alerted me to the fact that Dean Francis Hazard planned to have it rented out to a farmer for planting in order to generate income for Ohio State Marion. He monitored all the stages of saving it.
Trella and Ted contacted Ralph Ramey, Ohio Prairie Association officer, and through him the 1986 Prairie Conference was held on the OSUM campus.
Larry Yoder conceived the OSUM Campus Prairie, involved his botany classes in collection seed, and nurtured it during its firs few years.

Trella H. Romine,
August 25, 2009]

Sunday, August 23, 2009
53 AM
78
Woke at 10:00 – Cool. Put obit for Opal Rice Schneider in the filing cabinet drawer in bedroom and this led to assessing what could be recycled & what kept. Spent about 4 horus on it.
Cood the tomatoes from the pergola area – added salt, a little sugar & parsley – rosacea. Will freeze some and make chili from other. TV – ‘So You Want to be a Millionaire’ – guy didn’t know LB Johnson had button for ‘Fresco’ on his desk so lost $500,000.

Saturday, August 22, 2009
Jim met me at auditorium door with “new” name badge. Not to my liking – but cou ld print out a replacement. Have had problems with Resource Center printer so he reloaded the program to make it work.
Keith Kohler chatted with Beck Oldham the whole 3 hours. About 3:00 I told him about inquiry for ‘Gatewood Cemetery’. He will contact owner & probe for markers.