Category: Trella Diaries

Friday May 7th
2 HH. Mary Jo Baker there for genealogy society. disgust lack of staffing a resource center by genealogy people. She cleaned the rooms. I got books from upstairs library on genealogy that belong in RC and accession them. Lovely plant basket from Kathy and Bob here when I got home.

Thursday May 7th [sic]
Dave hemstad and helper removed old industrial window from rec room and installed thermopane window. No screens. No openings $425 Kathy came and painted around it. Royce cleaned.
Mary out about 2 when we expected June and Dick messenger but they didn’t tell 4:30.
car trouble with alternator June couldn’t walk but her sister-in-law and daughter June and Sally enjoyed the garden. June brought up asparagus and cheese spread. I baked brownies and serve them even though they were here through suppertime leaving about 7: 00
Talk to Dave Hempstead about remodeling TV room.

Wednesday no entry

Tuesday May 4th
Don Keil brought another load of compost paid him $75 too exhausted to go to exec committee meeting

Monday no entry

Sunday May 3rd [sic]
David down by pond watching turtles when I woke up about 9. We had breakfast on the deck. David pulled euonymus off small hickorys and crab down by the river. We drove over off route 100 and dug some silver bells in bloom. The Reinhart girl stopped and talked. She has bought one of the flats 7A laid out along there. Also dug wildflowers in Stafford woods. Planted all this by gazebo. David fixed my Iomega zip drive and cleaned up my desktop on the computer. Then the Mustang wouldn’t start so he could go home. nor when I pushed him. So I went to Meijer and bought jumper cables and weed feed and back to Ralph Boger’s where he parked it. So at 3:45 after an hour he was on his way to Cincinnati.
When I got back to Terradise Marcella Haldeman, Martha custom bader & Mabel were on deck. And Darren McGinnis and Jenny Haberman were coming out of the woods. They were supposed to be here at 1 they want their wedding facing pond. Their photographer was also with them Darren spotted two bats flying. After they left I shared Lu Carhart’s letter with Marcella and friends. They left about 4:30 and I collapsed.

Saturday May 2nd [sic]
The Dunlavy family from Perrysville researching Carey ancestors. Introduced son to Family Tree Maker and they copied 36 pages from county histories. Richard Carey happened in the [sic] helped them. Home by 4:30 and David (in Sarah’s 64 Mustang) and Sarah & Dave in Saturn arrived about 5:00. They walked in woods and I drove tractor with cart that they filled with plants. Also dug perennials for Dave Sapp. Pizza for supper and Sapps returned to Urbana.
Showed David my new will that does not give the rest of Terradise to Marion county Park district. He had reconciled to losing it.

Friday April 30th
Don Keil arrived by 1:30 with 1 1/2 cubic yards of compost from site west of Marion. I helped shovel it on to the perennial beds and by the greenhouse and terrace. $17 for compost and $38 for labor. But one cubic yard delivered is $78.
Bath and rested until 2 Marys picked me up for dinner at Al’s restaurant in Cardington.

Thursday April 29th
Email from Dave- Tiger Cruise last one from boat on Carl Vinson- “I’m out of here!”
Jim Owen here to remove storm windows and wash windows $74. Potted up Alyssum seedlings and Impatiens. Mowed prairie area across road and used up lawn fertilizer below greenhouse. Forgot that Marcella Haldeman had invited me for dinner at 5 until 6:30. So called her- missed dinner but we went to meeting of Crawford county Historical Society. Speaker gave pre civil war chronology of Bucyrus (a copperhead Democrat town). Norm Haldeman there- a trustee. Had a great talk with him. Then to Marcella’s and she heated up my supper for me. Home about 10:45.

Wednesday April 28th
Worked on perennial bed. Taking 2 Anacin every 6 hours and it controls me and toothache. Don Keil here at 12. Sifted and mixed potting soil. Trimmed Euonymus from front of house and by side porch. Downloaded pics from digital camera and printed out copies.