Category: Trella Diaries

Tuesday May 25th cool 50’s 2” rain
Don hauled composted manure to lower terrace I dug Hosta from several places- we both dug and pulled weeds and ended up after three and a half hours with a totally replanted terrace- about six kinds of hosta. Rested and bath. Had found it was the black cartridge I needed so still couldn’t print out garden photos. So bought black on way to Pam and Dave Miller’s home for garden tour. Fabulous. Business meeting on patio and dessert and slides in house. Buchart Gardens is about as far above Miller’s garden as their garden is above mine.

Monday May 24th
Transfer pics from camera to computer but color ribbon ran out. Want them for talk Wednesday. Set out white Mico tinea and potted up daisies and Columbine and Cleoma for talk. Don Keil at 12:30- still couldn’t get push mower started. He cleaned brush from riverbank, pulled grapevine out of spruce across the road and put up teepee for tomatoes, Dug grass out of front bank. Left at 2:15 because rain and wind. In at 4:30 for supper with Mary at Long John Silvers. Got some color cartridges at Office Depot. Shopped at Meijer for groceries, geraniums, prescription for phlegm, jumper cable, knit shirt. Watched Travels in Europe with Rick Steves & Antiques Roadshow.
Reading Willis Thomas original surveys and trails- good stuff and research but needs work.

Sunday May 23rd
Sprayed with weed killer but didn’t have weather report and it rained by 4 p.m. Also liquid fertilized lawn and acid for Rhododendron, Azaleas, evergreens and hollies. Took photos of orchid and white garden James Rock Alaska daisies colfin quezia rhododendron. Reading “The Rich Are Different”

Saturday May 22nd
Willis Thomas in with his “The First Surveys in Marion County” and the first trails & byways. Lots of good research & a good map only copy on loan to MCHS resource Center.
Alaska Daisies, Dames Rocket, Beauty Bush, Rhododendron in full bloom.

Friday May 21st
Worked in garden a.m. Set out red salvia in greenhouse. To Heritage Hall- researched on cemeteries for Marion Online- problems. Picked up Mary Jordan and met Mary H at Bob Evans for supper.

Thursday May 20th no entry

Wednesday May 19th
To Dr. Nowacki about my knee- he took more X-rays and advised exercise- lay on back raise extended leg halfway and time it.

Tuesday May 18th
Set out Marigolds & Alyssum in patio bed-weeded bed by greenhouse watched over by big garter snake. Matt McCoy glad to have my digital pictures to work from to plan new plantings around the pool. Also will do one for fallen oak site- Rhododendron and Azaleas in bloom there. Mary out she discovered she had $50,000 in savings bonds after waking at 2 a.m. to look in her safe.
She cashed one for $3,200 to increase her checking balance. To Hemmerly’s at 4 for annual profit sharing meeting need $8,000 for computer update and still have over $19,000 for bonuses and $23,000 dividends.($10,000 for me ) Evaluation study shows worth of business is $202,000
To Tim Hortons with Mary for supper. To Meijer and bought petunias, salvias, verbena and dusty miller $30. To board meeting at HH received $22,000 from Carl Campbell’s estate for HPEF*. Decided to reinvest maturing HPEF CDs in Marion and Fahey Banks.

*Heritage Preservation Endowment Fund

Monday May 17th
Don Keil here- sprayed more weed killer- tried to start new mower and wouldn’t run. Cleaned area around pool so Matt McCoy can see what he has to work with two and a half hours 90° hot!

Sunday May 16th
Set out Mexican primrose and sweet alyssum and cleome seedlings. Watered newly seeded grass areas. Mary out about 3:00 for spaghetti dinner. Cooked asparagus from Clutters. Call from Ruth Carhartt about a Wallace Cutting[?] painting she has. Used internet search and found listing of his paintings from $65 to $250- printed out for her.