Category: Trella Diaries

Friday, December 18, 1998
Missle Bombing stopped in Iraq
Use Royal Albert China & Sterling to set table for Waffle Supper for Mary Hecker, Mary Jordan, Helen Romine & Erma Hutchman – Everything went fine until top plate of waffle iron came loose & rested on top of a waffle already in it. 2 Marys left about 6:30 as Mary J was going to LDS Church program with Ed & Barbara Granger.
Helen, Erma & I had good chat – showed them pix Dave sent from Carrier Carl Vinson & played a CD of Irish music. Also e-mail cpapbilities.
Jack Telfer mailed me a copy of the recorded deed for 12+ acres to Marion County Park District.

Friday, December 18, 1998
Missle Bombing stopped in Iraq
Use Royal Albert China & Sterling to set table for Waffle Supper for Mary Hecker, Mary Jordan, Helen Romine & Erma Hutchman – Everything went fine until top plate of waffle iron came loose & rested on top of a waffle already in it. 2 Marys left about 6:30 as Mary J was going to LDS Church program with Ed & Barbara Granger.
Helen, Erma & I had good chat – showed them pix Dave sent from Carrier Carl Vinson & played a CD of Irish music. Also e-mail cpapbilities.
Jack Telfer mailed me a copy of the recorded deed for 12+ acres to Marion County Park District.

Thursday, December 3, 1998
63° Sunny
Royce Cleaning – Did washing – bedding & shower curtains. Usual pick up & sorting.
In to Marion 1t 3:00 – Stopped at Hutchman’s to repay $10 I borrwed for bulbs at Garden Club – Erma had decorated for Christmas & Bill was marvelling at roses blooming in Dec.
To Dan Wigtons office in Corporate Center to get transfer documents for Mary to sign.
To Hap Dowler’s office. Went over Endowment Fund I’ll establish for maintenance of Terradise Nature Center in memory of Howard Howser.
Signed deed transferring 12+ acres of Terradise to Marion County Park District. Hap says that will make Jack Telfer ecstatic.
Picked up a Lee’s chicken dinner for supper.
emaiol from Brad Leffer – He prefers Friday Feb 19, 1999 to give his “The Great Hopewell Road’

Saturday, October 31, 2009
1 inch rain
Worked getting all the little jobs done that got the house in pretty good shape by the time Dave Decker arrived at 6:00. Found out later how he managed to spend this time with me. Missed the kickoff meeting in Austin Texas for his new Navy air project. Crucial that he gets things set up for his successor when he returns in June. Hated to leave Johanna to take care of stray cat he rescued that is partially paralyzed. I feel so honored that he cares enough for me to keep his promise to be here for my birthday.
He will retire in June. 23 years in navy. Retirement $50,000 a year. Quite a drop from his present $120,000 a year salary. He’ll move to Albuquerque New Mexico for study for PhD in geology and a new career. he is 42 on December 19th.

Friday, October 30, 2009
Windy
To Y. to Sims and boy helped unload recyclables. To Aldi’s- didn’t have enough cash with me to buy a $10 phalenopsis orchid. To Meijer to pick up Actonel and pay bill. Home by 1:00. Email from Scott Spears wanting to confirm Gale for the December 4th as my presenter. Email from Ohio Environmental Council on why to vote no on Issue 2- benefits factory farms not farmers. Forwarded it to family and friends.
Took a nap. No TV in TV room. Ralph Boger had first corn sprouted and today had first corn harvested.
Getting 42 miles per gallon on Prius.

Thursday, October 29, 2009
Cloudy 60°
DJ 9822
Terradise Nature Preserve at Marion Community Foundation $23,250 Up $1,000 since august..
Jim Carpenter here from 9:30 to 12:30. Cleaned garage, golf cart, tractor and inside Prius. Loaded recyclables in Prius. Raked leaves from drive and hauled to compost pile. Cut hosta foliage and removed to compost pile.
To Le Salon at 1:15 for perm $56. Marcia was concerned when she couldn’t reach me by phone. New styling of hair over ears and longer on sides.
Home by 3:00. Cleaned drawers in desk daddy made. Area by boiler. Worked for 3 hours. On living room TV no picture only a colored line across screen that jumps around.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
1 inch rain AM 50s leaves dropped on maple and dogwood
To Y pool and back home by 11:30- continued to add to my chronology using mother’s notes and Christmas letters. got to 1982. Sent two pics of pergola and weeping cherry and sassafras trees to Jamie Steven of the Star.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sent article of leaf collection to James Stevens at Marion Star.
Call from Angela Dutcher OSUM student in creative writing class wanting to interview me for an assignment ‘Find an Interesting Person- ask these 25 questions over a period of one and a half hours. She was here from 3:15 to 5:30! Covered a lot of my activities but missed some- she recorded it on a gadget no larger than a cell phone.
David to Columbus Monday night to play with Vaughn’s group. Talked man from Marion that did not know Trella Romine. My laugh for the day. Emails from Robin Cook and Virginia Wagner.

October 28, 2009
1 inch rain AM 50s leaves dropped on maple and dogwood
To Y pool and back home by 11:30- continued to add to my chronology using mother’s notes and Christmas letters. got to 1982. Sent two pics of pergola and weeping cherry and sassafras trees to Jamie Steven of the Star.

Monday, October 26, 2009
To Y- Sarah not in pool. Does the routine by reading a paper. Ann Hawthorne in whirlpool talking about Robinalt book.
Shopped at Meijer for grapes, bananas and cantaloupe.
Gale here for supper. The seasoned fish from Meijer really good.
Got my phone working by unplugging two connections.

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Mark Baker, my 8th grade science teacher at Central Junior High School spiked a lifelong interest in nature when he assigned us to make a leaf collection.
So on this gorgeous October afternoon with the trees aflame incolors from raspberry to lemon I rode around Terradise in my golf cart and over 70 years later made another leaf collection.
In that 70 year time span my interest in nature has broadened to include birds, butterflies and gardening. But it was especially rewarding to be collecting leaves once more.
On my side porch the wind had deposited tulip poplar and sycamore from trees far from there. So using a small catalog for preserving inserted them and headed down toward the river and into the woods and added Shagbark hickory, red osier dogwood, Hopa crab, bald cypress, American and European beach, silver and black and Norway maple, and shingle oak. The ginkgo had dropped a few yellow leaves that look like little fans. The Buckeye leaves were all on the ground and fading as were the compound Ash leaves. A few Hawthorn leaves clung to their twigs but I couldn’t find the leaves from the yellowwood tree. Used all my energy collecting so pressings labeling will have to wait.
My article on MCHS antique appraisal in Star.