Category: Trella Diaries

Daily journal of Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine from 1933 to her death on February 19, 2013.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1999-06-14

Monday June 14th
Office furniture delivered. Canceled out on going to Cincinnati for brass band. Just couldn’t handle it with all the work that needs to be done here. Don Keil worked 2 hours and cleared bank below driveway of bishop’s weed.

Monday June 14th [sic]
Don worked distributing 20 bags pine mulch. Picked up new glasses at 4 vision $385

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Trella Hemmerly – 1999-06-12

Saturday June 12th
Woke at 4:30 and up at 5:30 as it was getting light. Set watering spray on lawn. Dugout hosta by pergola and replanted on lower terrace. Planted bed by gazebo with impatiens and coleus and made walkway. No one in at RC. Looked through Dick West files. Ordered computer desk. Bookcase and lateral file all in oak finish $350 assembling will be another $140 plus tax Office Depot
Mary had quiche for supper at her house and we looked at her cemetery markers photo albums. Grocery shopped at Kroger’s and storm caused electrical outage and had to wait for cash registers to come back on. Talked to Mary Meeker Paige who has the floral department- rain here but temp down to 75 degrees from 90. Pulled and chopped off all Alaska daisies.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1999-06-11

Friday June 11th
Water garden. No one in at Resource Center, got into judge Myers files and found pics of John Jacoby’s cabin taken in 1923 by grandson Elias. So did a family file in Family Tree Maker through J. Wilbur Jacoby’s grandsons. Picked Mary J up and met Mary H at Perkins. Stopped at Meijer for dry eye drops, vitamin e, Oil of Olay Foundation, flat of begonias and more impatiens and some dusty miller. Looked at office furniture at Office Depot.
e-mails from Kathi, Dave and Kristi, none of them feel they would ever want to manage Hemmerly’s but Kathi will vote her stock as I want to. Call from David with same message. Made plans to go to Cincinnati Brass Band and Cincinnati Pops concert on Tuesday. (Not Thurs)

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Trella Hemmerly – 1999-06-10

Thursday June 10th
Kass at[sic] Pete Mattimore out at 10:30 to talk about selling Hemmerly’s Flowers. Had approached Diane Zacharias Corea and she is interested with backing from her father. Have [shorthand] with Tom Frericks next Tuesday at 2:00 to draw up a purchase agreement. He said accept nothing but a cash sale. Paid bills. Checking account balance $12,000 and after paying estimated taxes etc. Jake Retterer stopped by to tell me to pick up slabs of stone and ask about digging tulip bulbs from Germany.
Send e-mails to all my descendants to get their opinion about selling Hemmerly’s Flowers.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1999-06-09

Wednesday June 9th
Sorted out some books for Friends of Library sale. E-mail from Kathi telling that Bodie{dog] is no longer. Last straw was complaint from neighbors that he howled the whole time when they were gone. Poor dog. He was so loving. Don came about 12:15 and mulched bed by greenhouse. Then cleaned up some of the bulb foliage and started to level burned area across road but got into a yellow jacket nest. Mary Reynolds made a call for Pastor Booth. Assured me several times she was a Christian!
Watered tomatoes and all flower beds and hanging baskets. Mowed upper lawn. A bat is hanging under the spouting above the greenhouse.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1999-06-08

Tuesday June 8th
Don cycleded(?) the bank below the prairie bed along lower driveway. Now I can see the pond. Also trimmed trees along river and the rose bushes and Euonymus from the bank by the gazebo. A tree frog perched on faucet by steps. To Dr Riego at 4:00- eyes okay but need new glasses. Shopped at Elder-Beerman for shorts home exhausted.