Category: Trella Diaries

Friday, June 1, 1990
[No entry]

Monday, December 31, 1990
[No entry]

Thursday, May 31, 1990
39-70 Cols rain for May 7″
Called Kathy Kim AM & she said buy it. Called her PM to tell her I had.
Cleaned out the area in front of the new bed at lower entrance. Wheelbarrow load of double day lilies & goatweed. Move last of pinks to new bed so patio area reflects the coral of the brick patio.
Mary out & we shot video. Not pleased with focus & color.
Working on speech for Sat. Steve Potter from BancOPhio called & we got plan lined up for redeeming & investing Howard’s bonds to minimize the present $123,000 tax liability. – Will transfer E/EE bonds to HH Bonds. As interest is pd it will be invested in tax free fund. HH Bonds will be cashed over period of 9 yrs & proceeds invested in tax free fund. $60,000 cash is invested in tax free money market. Investments schould return average of 9% – Puts Howard in 28% income tax bracket. Found yar sale & bought Elizabeth Hemmerly framed memorial for $36 – Mr. Arnt assured me that this was the woman who founded Hemmerly’s Flower Shop!*
Sowed lettuce, larkspur & holly hock seed.

[*of course, Trella’s parents, Ray and Ivaloo Hemmerly founded Hemmerly’s Flowers in 1935]

Wednesday, May 30, 1990
38-65
Royce late – car trouble – so I had to take her home – she didn’t have key so took here to Burger King to get Chad & her car.

Sent pkg of newsletter & King reprint to Bill Elliott in Mobile, Alabama – Sent Kathi pkg of Flower & Garden magazines & King reprint. Took softbound copy to George Brown – gift for his support. He ordered all hardbounds (110 copies for family!) that won’t be ready for 2 weeks. Thought he should have a copy now.
Delivered 3 more copies to Mary Ellen Kerr, picked up check & took to John Cottrell.
Stuart Browne of Ft. Lauderdale called – He’ll be in Marion for Annual Meeting June 24 with sister Eleanor. Will meet them at 2:00 at HH.
Kass called – Need Hemmerly’s Board meeting to buy another van – 100,000 miles on this Ford.
Carroll Neidhart called- saw death memorial for “Elizabeth Hemmerly” d. 13 April 1885- checked family records & it is Conrad Hemmerly II wife. Daddy’s aunt. tried to call kathy Kim – a descendant. No ans.

Tuesday, May 29, 1990
In to HH to take books & meet John Cottrell with his record of purchases. Jack running all over town delivering invitations to Press Conference on June 8 to announce Harding Rooms sponsorship. Worked with Melinda Davies – intern. She has been working on catalog system for photos.
Took Willis reprint to him. He didn’t mention it but know he had headache. Wanda sleeping. Mary ellen Kerr came in with gift for her birthday. Invited me to her apt – wanted to buy 3 reprints & a brick & pay dues & too hard for her to get to HH.
Shopped for precise rolling ball extra fine Pilot pens for Howard – $1 each – grocery shopped.
Mailed Annual Meeting notice & bylaws – 397 pieces.

Monday, May 28, 1990
.3″ rain
Mowed lower & upper lawn as Willis Nye called & said they would like to come out about 4:30. Told him I had to meet David to pick up the soft bound & would try to be back.
Mary drove while I put labels on Bylaws & annual meeting notice mailing. Took most of the 3 hr trip, down & back.
Haldeman’s waiting at Young’s Dairy Barn N of Yellow Springs. All had ice cream & talked – started back about 3:30 after collecting specimen of plant blooming profusely S of Young’s (identified later as lyre-leaf sage) – Poured rain most of the way down & until we got back around Marysville – But Nye’s had come & gone when I got home.

Sunday, May 27, 1990
Botanized – found Kensel’s buttercup – turned out to be repens-escape. Stopped to visit with them. Collected rosa blanda & planted on my prairie. Got sweet potato plants & set them out.

Saturday, May 26, 1990
A do nothing – this & that kind of day.

Friday, May 25, 1990
Rain
Finished a June Hallmarks announcing annual meeting & providing ballot for bylaws & officers vote. Took it & Bylaws that David “Ventured” * to Boy Scout office. They ran it while i had supper with mary J & Mary H at Bob Evans. I took the paper, but charged me $32. But that’s better that $65 at Laippley’s.
Started collating Bylaws & stapling them.

[*Used Ventura Publisher software]

Thursday, May 24, 1990
45-70 sunny
Worked out doors all day – Set out impatiens, dusty miller, miniature dahlias. Set chrysanthemums in bed under Star Magnolia. Mowed front yard & back by lower driveway with push mower.
Wrote checks & balanced check book. Sent $5,000 to Steenrol Managed Municipals – Tax free fund. (from Field note – interest not pd on Land contract – Bal $15,000)