Author: Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine

Friday, August 9, 1991
8:15 – 7292 65 degrees Leaving Relax Inn Ingersoll. Rolls and coffee in lobby $53 room $63 with 15% tax. Overcast – 250 miles from home about. Miles of Colorado Blue Spruce at fence line planted too close. Ohio-like farmland. Lots of cornfields.
8:30 London 300,000.
8:45 7322 – Off I401 to St. Thomas pop. 29,000 to see Juimbo Petunia Hanging Baskets.
9:05 – 7332 – Jumbo killed in train wreck here – Lvg 9:15 on Rt 3 west.
10:05 – Views of Lake Erie – Farms extend to Lake – corn, soybeans.
10:07 7375 off on Kent Co. 17 to Pt. Auxpins Park [?]
10:09 – Lake Erie N. Shore – homes along beach
10:15 Park $5.75 for day – $4.75 American. Hike to South Point.
11:20 to beach Temp 71
11:45 back to car 7388
12:00 Heading inland to I401 on Rt 51 & 16
12:15 I401 – 7404 78 degrees
12:40 Tilbury 74e30 Gas & coffee 11.35 litres $6.12
1:14 7446 Sign on I401 Jack Miners Bird Sanctuary at Belle River Road.
1:26 – Windsor pop. 191,000
Took route 3 (3B goes downtown)
1:35 7467 A Relax Inn
1:42 7468 Ambassador Bridge Toll $1.50 US – $1.75 Canadian
1:48 Customs gate
1:50 To South I 75
2:00 On I 75
2:10 Goin N on S bound part of I 75
2:16 Sibley Rd. back on W. Lanes. 7501
2:40 Exit 18 – Pilot Gas $1.125 – 16.5 gal $18.75
3:00 7520 – Ohio Line 70 degrees
3:09 Maumee River
General Schwarzkoff retiring
3:35 Slowdown should be on road to W at Exit 171
Construction end at N. Baltimore
4:10 wendy’s in Findlay
4:35 leaving
224 to 37 to 15 to 23
5:50 7636 Terradise

Thursday, August 8, 1991
7-009 – 229 trip
Mary called me at 8:30
Bath – Canoe ride – 2 canoes up Seguin River
Pix of cardinal flower
Lunch

12:56 Log thru raspberry Lane & the piney monarchs
1:08 Orrville
1:37 Rosseau gas. 58 litres $10 can 17 ½ 5 gal – To Shadow River & to Lake to our 1956.
1:40 Lvg Rosseau onm Rt 141
Rt 11 to Toronto 207 KM (120 mi)
2;30 Toffee 81 cents/can cloudy 80
3:40 – Along I400 Service 7161 36 L $17 American with coupon.
4:00 Green Valley Truck fearms – flat, black soil.
4:178 Toronto – 1,133,000 pop. – traffic
4:25 I401
4:35 traffic clear at Rt 10 – new interchange
5:30 – Raining near Drumby [?] raining
6:00 7287 Ingersoll – Relax Inn – 3 stories
In to Ingersoll for dinner. At least 6 restaurants downtown in town of 8,500. Ate at Miss Ingersolls – $11 for 2. Bought Sucaryl $7 for Mary – cheese $11 for me.

Wednesday, August 7, 1991
69-88
Up at 8:45 – Mary, Vince & I had bfst on deck. Bill stopped over to ask Vince to take his boat out.
10:05 Left cottage for Rosseau. Working on bridge – driving piles.
10:20 Orrville. Took Star Lake Rd
10:27 Star Lake
10:31 Turtle Lake – spotted the islet thu trees – many roads now to lake
10:50 Pix Dan’s house
10:55 Rt 141 Rosseau – Our 1956? Cabin – General Store – Bot $5.50 – Marians.
11:20 Lovely home – but all steps 2 in. too high. Light lunch & then to Alan’s – Met his second wife, Mary. was Rosseau’s librarian & Alan lived with her before Betty died- sad. But all the kids accept Mary. Took Alan with us to Parry Sound for 3 hr ride on the 20,000 Island tour in Georgian Bay. Lovely – views thru islands only 50 ft apart. Back to Marian’s for dinner & to meet Peter – They plan to be married in Dec. Kitty & Vince lived together for 11 years before they married! Peter builds houses in winter & they spend winter at Key Largo on a boat. Alan with me to their old home that Tim is renovating. Tim dug folden glow for me. Grew up knowing it, but no one grows it anymore. Glad to find it. Back to Isabella Lake about 10:00.

Tuesday, August 6, 1991
Slept until 8:30 – lazed on deck as Longs still sleeping. – Krystal determines rising time around here. She is darling, but is the focus of Kitty & Vince’s life. Doting parents who hang on her every word. But she is so loving, lively & amusing that we love her too.
Haven’t done so much of nothing in years.
Wes to Parry Sound about 4 & touted the town – Tower Hill Garden grew up around a Forest Service fire tower. At at Jolly Roger Inn on Mother’s rent money. Pickerel delicious – service terrible – $70 total Canadian.

Monday, August 5, 1991
106904 = 500
To Rosseau
3:23 – 9:15 Up at 7:15 – Bfst McDonald $3.30 Can. Rail Fences – cream brick 1850’s houses – well tended farms – glimpses of Lake Huron – quiet views of Lake Huron
9:10 – N. of Givener – Nuclear Plant at Lake – Power lines across road.
9:30 – Pt. Elgin – Esso gas (not full) 38 litres $20 ($18 USA) Lots of Motels
9:45 ‘Southampton’ ‘Peaches and Cream’
Sweet corn $3 doz – Fawcett Farms in huge field – woods of aspen & willow
10:15 Owens Sound 20,000 pop. Sandstone bluffs – red brick houses – 69 degrees – ‘Golden Glow’ in pile of rubble – goldenrod blooming. Cut stone houses. St. Vincent twp view of Notrawason
10:30 Meadford Bayview Motel (Real view of bay) – houses right on beach, High Bluff ‘Blue Mt’ -Last of Niagra Escarpment – Arbor Vitae woods./ Bay along Rt 26 (Scenic Caves)
11:00 – Collingwood – Development – condominiums 95,000. Cranberry Inn
11:15 Wasaga Beach pop 5,000 – Tourist Town – middleclass – 67 degrees 510 miles
12:00 (at Rt 93 we took on 23 straight at Waverly-) rock fences piled up. Rt 400 ends – into Rt 69
12:”00 (100 mi on trip) – osprey – solid traffic southbound (end of long weekend) – granite cuts – Severn River
12:08 – S bound thinning some – 69 improved road since 1940’s – birch trees
12:40 Picnic at Foots Bay 180 trip
1:50 – 106988
Kitty & Vince Long so welcoming,. Cottage spacious, view spectacular Humming birds at feeder. Pork tnederlon * corn I bought at Scarboro.

Sunday, August 4, 1991
11:30 – Passing Walmart – Parking lot blacktopped. 106426 95- Sunny.
12:30 – Findlay – mail letters
12:40- back to I-75
1:00 – lunch at Rt 69 & I-75
1:15 – lvg
1:45 – Toledo
1:50 – Mich 110 miles
(off at Sibley rd & W to telegraph N on 24 to 12 E to 39)
To get to Hyatt Regency)
24 & I-91
2:45 155 mi.
3:50 Toll Bridge – 75 & Blue Lake Huron St. Clair River.
4:20 [illegible]
5:20 – Grand Bend – Pop 700 – All walking along sidewalk!
5:45 – Sashay into Bayview
6:00 – The Bluffs Motel 3 mi S. of Goderich $50 Can.
To Candlelight Ruehan sandwich ‘Tour’. St. Christopher Beach – Sunset Hill – Salt Mine – Sunset. 308 mi.

Saturday, August 3, 1991
83/70 misting rain .2 in
Bricks – 7 hrs – 3 plats LC-A-B-
Watering all day – called Clinton Hobbs to verify plans for Aug 10 tour of Claridon Prairie. Called Martha to have her call Howard while I’m gone.
Worked from 2 to 9 on plats – LLA-LLB-LLC&LLD. B&C are already laid, but needed correct doumentation. Had to enter most of LLA & finish LLD-Postmasters-Organizations-schools. Todd will be in Monday to lay.
Called Mary for help – She picked up bread & bananas for Howard.
Promised rain not enough to mention.

Friday, August 2, 1991
98
Watering all morning – Dug daffs for Kitty & Mrs. R. C. Backhouse. Stopped at Nu-Supply & selected counter top and stool. Estimate when I get back next Fri.

Thursday, August 1, 1991
95 – humidity 27%
Bricks 11 hrs
Up at 6:30 – Hair washed- bath – Bfst on deck with Howard. To Glen/Gery to take updated lists & give final OK for orders to go for mfg. 16 mile round trip. Took Howard to Reece’s for groceries. Laid soaker hose by lower driveway flower bed. Anita & Paul Monnette drove in while I was there. Camping at River Bend & all over US before returning to “Top of the Hill’ in Ocala, Fla. Nice visit. Then Randy from Nu-Supply came to measure for new bathroom cabinet & floor & stool for estimate. Be 4 weeks at least to get cabinets. From 11:00 until 2:30 at computer on brick files. Mary came out to pick up video of trip to Kathi’s. My photos came in mail from Kathi so she saw them too. Back to computer until 6:00. Dick West called – work on sorting bricks at HH tomorrow at 2:00 – Worked on plat sheets until 11:30.

Wednesday, July 31, 1991
Slept until 9:00 – Watered by Magnolia tree. Overhead Door men finished installation of door opener – Had replaced door panel yesterday $350.
Worked all day on Brick files – Had to get my mind back in gear. Have renamed the panels & got that straightened out.
Took mail to P.O. & mailed Insurance Book back to L. Hoff. Called J.D. Britton to see if room for Helen Kaufman at OSU table at AASLH as she plans to go with me.