Category: Trella Diaries

Thursday, August 30, 1990
MCHS 10-9 11 hrs
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Prince Imperial’s 100 yr old box with 18” wide boards was dismantled & is to be used for a fence. No board action authorized the destruction.
More frustration with new computer – Rejects commands. Can’t print labels. Called David & I hooked modem up wrong so he couldn’t help. Made date to call 8:30 tonight.
Mark & Bill laid stone walls (Ottawa Dry Cut Limestone) & planted 2 Serviceberry trees dense yew & dwarf lilac at both sides of driveway entrance.
Took membership renewal & card form to Laippley for printing. Then to HH to lead tour for Green Camp group & others. Then ran labels for renewal & for Potluck. Also ran invitations to Potluck & got material ready for Helen to copy for distribution to board. Mary brought chicken dinner to HH. At 6:00 Richard West came back & sorted bricks – He laid them out in order while I told him which ones were to be placed where. Exhausted by 8:45. Picked up prints at Cliff Mitchell’s – He gave MCHS enlargements of glass negatives found in Linscott house 15 years ago.
Home exhausted. Called David & told him too tired to use modem & I would just work at HH using dBaseIII.

Wednesday, August 29, 1990
MCHS 10-5 7 hrs
½” rain
Planted impatiens among the new juniper under the silky dogwood.
Worked on MCHS records – frustrating in Foxplus central. In at 1:00 to lead Mt. Vernon group on tour – About 50 people thru HH including Walt & Olgua & Janice. Bernard at Print Shop & Walt & Olgua visited.
Met Mary at Perkins for dinner. Took film to Cliff Mitchell to develop & print for brochure. Good to see him & Jackie again – been about 12 years since we’ve been close.

Gave Jess (girl) from Trailer Park the small tree book that was Ray’s. She had asked me to help her with identification project for school.

[added later:] Last time I saw Walt. He declined my offer of a personal tour of HH.

Tuesday, August 28, 1990
Bfst on the deck with David & family. They left for Lake Erie about 10:00.

Monday, August 27, 1990
Sorted piles of accumulations. Got bedroom/computer room ready for session with David tonight.
In to shop for groceries, pick up sweet corn at McMahons, leave Huber Newsletters at Willis Nye’s.
Home & got meat loaf dinner ready. Haldemans arrive about 7:00.
David & I worked from 9 to 12 repairing programs, teaching me Ventura Publisher, etc.
Karen asleep in bed with her book when we finished.

Sunday, August 26, 1990
2 hrs Bricks & MCHS Purchase Fund
7:50 – Cedar Waxwings – flock of 7 or 8 tufted titmice in beech & oaks. Most look like juveniles. Carolina AWren singing.
97th Reserve Unit from Marion put on alert.
Muggy & hot – Learning sessions on new computer. Called David but he was at COG Convention in Dayton. Wrote to Kristi & Kathi – Sent Ray’s poem Sonnet 441014 – to a poetry contest. Cooked boiled potatoes & fried minute steaks for lunch at 4:00.

Saturday, August 25, 1990
MCHS 2 hrs.
Finished mowing with push mower in front yard. Tried to learn Ventura Publisher – frustrating – Can’t get Lazer [sic] printer to print any different fonts.
Mary out with sweet corn. Baked orange roughy to go with it. Corn too far gone to be good.
Sorted out MCHS files while watching TV – Worked on it until 1:30 AM.

Friday, August 24, 1990
Streets closed for Farmer’s Festival.
Took Howard to Caledonia. Mowed from 11 to 3:00 – Even go the banks across the road. Looks great. Love the open look towards the road where the 3 Hopa Crabs were. Alos the view to the river from the upper deck that had been blocked by Washington Thorns.
Set out New Eng. Asters, late aster across the road among the mosquitos.
Mary H & Mary J picked me upt to go to Al’s in Cardington for dinner. Robin & LeAnne are separated from husbands & Bob’s son K is divorced. Ed Granger & Barbara Jordan seem to be happy in their June 30 marriage. Barbara is learning to be a Morman wife. Don Augenstein – Marine – is headed for Saudi Arabia.

No landscapers today.
Discovered big bluestem clump in bloom across road in original prairie planting.

Thursday, August 23, 1990
Ray Foertsch here to cut 3 Hopa Crabs & Washington Thorn. Hard work for a 78 yr old man. Also cut 4 lilac bushes on bank N of lower driveway. Didn’t have the heart to ask him to do any more. Installed outside lamp on post. Landscapers didn’t show up.

Wednesday, August 22, 1990
Mark & helps finished brick walk to where it will connect with the steps from lower drive. Also cut sod & marked out bed from road along driveway to fill in hole. Want to be able to mow from road down to pond.

Tuesday, August 21, 1990
MCHS 2 hrs + 100 miles
TO Class of ‘33 bfst at Isaly’s. Sat with Mary Gracely Conyers & Richard Minshall. Dick & Imogene here from Fla. Dick remembers daddy popping corn in water – (only a little, I think, to restore moisture). Reminisced about growing up on Dix Ave. He was 3 when I was born & played with my erector set.
Picked Mary up & off to Ohio Hist Soc to pick up “Time & Again” exhibit. Had it ready on loading dock. Then to MCI Cafeteria for lunch (Chi-Chi’s too full) – Then to 3rd Ave W to buy lamp for outdoor post – Cast Iron – $100.
Unloaded 3 boxes at Heritage Hall & left word on selling it up for the popcorn festival. It must be returned April 30, 1991.
Landscapers laying brick. Have to saw so much because they laid timbers too far apart i