Author: Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine

Thursday, July 20, 1989
.06″ rain yesterday.
Slept until 9:00 when R. Frave—- called. Margaret Parker status with Moulten in Region 8. Sending committee structure to Genevieve Foltz with changes and inquiry as to Fetter’s status with certification committee. Spent 3 hours writing letters to cover and thank you to Dan E. Yoder and friends. Mary took Brattens to airport for 1:00 flight to St Petersburg.
Fertilized some beds and weeded. Garden is a mess- so overgrown
Ray Foertsch called to apologize for severing gas line at Bordeaux while removing overgrown taxus.
Cost me $450 to have it repaired.

Wednesday, July 19, 1989
Mary with David and Vivian Brattenb picked me up at 8:00 for 100 mile trip to Holmes County for the Huber Threshing Day at the Dan Yoder farm. David’s family arrived right at 10:00 at the Flat Ridge School along with the other 58 Huber Association members and friends. My car to the farm.
What a thrill to see the horses pulling the wagons loaded with sheaves to the thresher. The Brinley’s had their Huber HK tractor belted to the rototrack thresher. After some remarks the threshing started with the sheaves fed into the thresher and emerging as grain and blowing out a pile of straw that grew to 4 ft high before the kids found it. But the dinner served inside the Amish home on their bench table (clever adaptation) chicken, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes (melt in mouth), noodles, honey and apple butter, homemade bread, green salad, date pudding, sugar peanut butter, custard. Rides in Amish buggy and to Charm shopping with Karen. Home by back roads at 6:00. Set out quick lunch for all. Bed at 9:00

Tuesday, July 18, 1989
Threshing tickets are in hall desk.
Paid bills. In at 3:30 to Mary’s. All of us to West Mansfield to take to Hildreth Genealogies to Cecil Yarrington Schneider. She looks like her aunt Mertie Gantt. Then to Mount Victory to Plaza Inn for dinner. Delicious barbecue ribs. Back to Marion for board meeting (MCHS) and took Bratten’s for first floor tour. The cleanup looks great and the lower rooms have been painted. Board meeting from 7:00 to 9:30. Fundraising plans, reports of Jack Telfer’s activities. I’ve got to get busy on Constitution revision.

Monday, July 17, 1989
To Columbus for board meeting. somehow after Alaska motions to pay bills don’t seem very exciting.
To Marion by 5:00 and met Mary and Bratten’s at Bob Evans for supper.
Picked up four more rolls of prints at Kmart

Sunday, July 16, 1989
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Saturday, July 15, 1989
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Friday, July 14, 1989
David up early and mowing in woods then went to Hemmerly’s to update computer. I did some unpacking and looked the garden over. Things sure did grow and most beds look good, but everything seems so small and overgrown.
Went through mail and newspapers. J.G. Clark and Forrest Loudenslager died while I was gone and Madge Guthery married Marshall on June 18th.

Thursday, July 13, 1989
Kathi made duplicate video tape of our Seward trip to take home for David.
Kathi called me at 6:30- had gone to sleep about 4:00 a.m.! Breakfast of rolls, coffee and juice. Called Royce to tell her not to come to clean tomorrow. Dug some of Kathi’s Shasta Daisy plants. Hard to leave her beautiful, comfortable home at 7:30. To airport via Minnesota. Checked in our six bags and a box (Mary had 2!). Looked at bird display. Goodbye to Kathi at gate. She’s done so much for us and her next visitors arrive Wednesday from Reno. Hope she gets some rest. Northwest flight 90 jammed full and our window seat is at the door. On time 8:50 a.m. 5 hours to Minneapolis/St Paul. 757 Boeing full! Cloudy 56° Safety message on the TV- clear and 73° in Minnesota. Take off at 9:04 a.m. Tower, Lake Hood, Lake Spenard, clouds fluffy. Chugach Mountains, Potters Marsh, Turnagain Arm, over Cook Inlet.
9:23 over Wrangell and Saint Elias above clouds. (37,000 over Valdez, north of Juneau. British Columbia south of Fort Nelson. Prince George over Edmonton, Saskatchewan, Minnesota. 2,098 from TD- 4 hours 30 minutes.) Shots to laciers, black between, a black and white landscape. Breakfast unwelcome interruption. 10:08 a.m. Braided river alongside plane’s direction. Mountains gentling and clouds intermittent.
10:12 a.m. Aqua water below large area.
10:16 a.m. Ice field tops of mountains barely show. bumpy. clouds above mountains but can see them.
10:20 a.m. Braided river.
10:22 a.m. Whiteout.
10:36 a.m. Road (Lake Summit)
10:40 a.m. Fort Nelson River.
11:00 a.m. Mountains but only one with glacial ice. Nerve to ask me to pull shade so they can see movie. Green valleys. Many stream margins.
11:10 a.m. Squiggly road up mountain.
11:12 a.m. Broad river valley. Many roads but all end.
11:15 a.m. Fields to left of huge river.
11:20 a.m. Flat fields.
11:33 a.m. Big river through flat fields. chartreuse, pink, green dotted with lakes and hHills intruding into them. 11:37 a.m. Big lake. First town I’ve seen
11:45 a.m. Hills.
11:47 a.m. Network of Roads widely spaced
11:51 a.m. Crooked road.
David met us at Columbus airport 11:15 Ohio time. David and Vivian Bratten had come in at 7:30 from Nebraska visit good to see them and have help with our baggage. Home about 1:15

Wednesday, July 12, 1989
Bob goes to work at 3:30 today so we ate breakfast at the Eatery- two eggs, three pancakes or toast and three strips of bacon $2.99 no tax. Took Bob home and then ran his errands in north end of town. Kathi selected frame and matte for his bush pilot poster. Stopped by municipal greenhouse and Bagays Flower Shop. Carol, the owner, very cordial. Loved clean shop. Back home to say goodbye to Bob and Kathi packed his lunch. I packed one suitcase and some wildflowers from the woods next door. At 4:00 leaving for Matanuska Valley Farm area. North on Ingra Avenue- all Anchorage housing not as nice as Kathi’s. Passed Merrill Field- small plane airport now, Anchorage’s first airport. Street numbers start at north end of town, south end of Air Force and Army bases where nearly 10,000 military are stationed.
4:20 p.m. raining! Stopped
4:36 p.m. Knick River.
4:37 p.m. Matanuska River
4:45 p.m. Side roads in Madness
5:00 p.m. pictures of Farm building
5:15 p.m. Lady Slipper Lake
5:30 p.m. State fairgrounds, Dairy farm, lettuce and cabbage field, Fair Loop road, magpies, Fairview Greenhouses.
7:00 p.m. Knick Road to end. miniature horses. picking cotton, groves. To Knick Arm at Malemato. Mile 16 pictures Arm, fireweed, old Knick Museum. Iditarod Trail.
7:30 p.m. Settler’s Bay. Hugh Inn empty. Well laid out curving streets- few houses- waiting for the boom.
7:45 p.m. Pond reflections 25 mailboxes on Highway
8:00 p.m. Wasilla Alaska Pantry Cafe. Kathi birthday dinner $20.55 for three leaving 9:00 p.m.
Check out Matanuska Ski Resort- smells bad.
9:07 p.m. Leaving Wasilli- cloudy.
10:00 p.m. Home roads wet with rain 32239.

Tuesday, July 11, 1989
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