Category: Trella Diaries

Sunday, July 19, 2009
Kathi’s 68
Sent Kathi an e-mail about her birthday & called her near 11:00 AM (time of birth_) but woke her up so didn’t talk long.
In order to make room on the kitchen counter for my new blender I did a real cleanup including cabinet on end where I had mouse poison.
Bird watching about 4:00 PM after seeing red-headed woodpecker & immature one under sweet gum tree. Ended up with 17 species and didn’t see cardinal & bluejay that usually are here.
Pulled hose out of new housing & watered pots on deck & in gazebo, pulled it to pergola area to water tomatoes & petunias. Picked 2 ripe early Girl tomatoes.
E-mails from Virginia Wagner in Westerville of her flowers blooming now. I have mor of them.
Reading ‘German Way’ – Surprised to see Thomas Hemmerly – Did I borrow & not return?

Saturday, July 18, 2009
72 sunny
As I drove by the former Thelma & Milo Brocklesby farm tonight – the dilapidated barn was buried in a hole & the monster that destroyed it standing by!–
Finished inventory of my bedroom & took the notes to RC & entered in a file – Als copied photos of renovations of steps to Flash Drive E -& Hildreth Reunion.
Jim Carpenter scanned pages of photos from Carl Sawyer Collection for John Schau of Columbus for his article on Masseurs – He is one – paid $2 for them.
Drove by Claridon Prairie – too much Canada Thistle in seed – and sweet clover – Like my ‘New Prairie’.
Ralph Boger’s corn first to tassel.
Shopped at Goodwill for an ice cube tray (50 cents) (automatic one in fridge is broken) and a blender ($7.00_) . And at Meijer for picture frame wire and groceries – blueberries $2.00

Friday, July 17, 2009
Started inventory of my bedroom (on paper). The bookcase Daddy built in 1912 has 2 shelves. The top one contains notebooks of Ray’s poems & record of sales & expenses*. Took some time – I enjoyed – so inventory not complete.
Danny & Nick finished the steps toward woods and the area connecting them to ramp by greenhouse. Excavated area for new wall by greenhouse & hauled dirt in low spot as you enter woods. Danny plugged in electric cord to golf cart & emptied bucket of dirt by pond.
Watering marigolds & front lawn yesterday evidently drained well. So turned it off to recover.
Walter Cronkite died.

*[This material has been digitized and is available at https://terradisebooks.com/ray-romine-poetry]

Thursday, July 16, 2009
Danny and Nick at work before 8:00 and didn’t quit until almost 6:00 but they finished the steps leading to the woods and pond. Tracy came out and conferred with them on the problems of tying into existing ramp.
Royce brought Jim Carpenter. He installed the new water hose house and taught me to use it. Amazing to see the hose feeding into the reel in the box with no help from me except setting the Knob!
Jim cleaned the bricks by the side steps and watered pots. installed a bracket on gazebo and put a hanging basket on it. Moved the huge Peace Lily from the TV room to the gazebo. He laid out the soaker hose but didn’t connect it to faucet hose as I had to reposition it.
Mde salmon cakes for supper. Cleaned out the plastic bag drawer. looking for Rolling Pin not there to crush crackers for it.
Warm, loving note from Lisa [Haldeman] Snyder. Thanks for contribution to the Bucyrus Library for Marcella.
Emails from Marian Fraser Loof again. Susannah here about 7:30. Told me gasoline is down to $2.39 a gallon. Finals next week. Sent email to Jackye Shuck Powell asking about plans to visit Terradise.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
82° sunny sent Kathi card and $50 check
Wrote up minutes for executive meeting yesterday and emailed to Gale and Jan Augenstein. Mike and Danny still working on steps to woods and river. Had to remove lots of earth and stone compaction
Sent Scott Spears info on Maryln Meseke from class of ‘33 reunion books
Made a salad of green greens, broccoli, celery, yellow pepper for supper and cooked the beets Don Keil brought.
Found a patch of red scaly skin on my upper left arm. Checked out wood ticks and deer ticks on Google. Not Deer Tick since no bullseye in the area.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
8:30 Danny and Lehner on the job- two dump trucks in driveway. They removed rotted Timbers from steps toward pond and woods and engineered the new timbered steps. Still working when I left at 3:30.
I watered and weeded from 10:00 until 12:00. Nap till 1:00 computer messages from Marion Fraser Loof and Kathi. Sent one to Karen Kelly about Dick Cooper clearing Terradise Nature Preserve parking lot of stumps.
To Dr. Winger at 4:00. Fixed and cleaned hearing aid. Shopped CVS for a cane with strap $20. First one I ever bought. Other gifts or Mary’s–. Cards for Kathi and Karen and hearing aid batteries $50.
To Executive meeting at 4:45. Randy Winland had new computers and monitor. No Nancy so I took secretary notes.
Shopped at Aldi’s- $44. Too tired to carry in the house so Susannah did it when she came about 7:30. Leftovers for supper.

Monday, July 13, 2009
Marilyn Schnipple came over at 10:30 with a flat of yellow gazanias. She planted a row along the new flower bed along the lower driveway- left at 11:45.
Call from Gary Iams asking about my endowment fund given to OSU Marion. I invited him to Terradise for talk. Told him it was $5,000 given for support of the Marion Campus Prairie planted by Larry Yoder’s botany classes. Showed him some of my files and told him I showed Larry his first visit to Claridon Prairie. Told him I will write my recollections and send them to him. He drove me to Terradise Nature Preserve to see clean up of Hackberry logs that Dick Cooper told me he had finished Saturday.
Don Keil stopped with beets from his garden. Fixed supper for Gale and had a catch up gab. Told her about Ron Boyland’s presentation on Battle of Perrysburg October 1862 and the 121st OVI involvement. She agreed a program by him would be okay.
I identified Button Bush that I saw yesterday at Green Camp prairie.
Susannah called and said she would be late as she was going to birthday party for Vaughn Wiester.

Sunday, July 12, 2009
80° Sunny
Packed basket with bean salad and service along with 1982 Hildreth genealogy and the Hildreth genealogy I found recently in the filing cabinet drawer containing the books from Allen Sheneman that Mike Roesner [son-in-law of Allen’s] sent me culled from the eight boxes of his material.
Drove via Broadway and US 33 to Bellefontaine to Mary Rutan Park. All of Mack Hildreth’s brothers were there with wives. Bill from Texas- San Antonio- also Ron Boyland with Benoni Hildreth’s Civil War musket. Good presentation on the 121st at Battle of Gettysburg. He’s willing to do program at Marion in October. Gail willing!
Home via State Route 739 so I could stop at gate of Trella Romine Prairie at State Route 203 & 739. Great Headed Coneflower and Button Bush only thing I could see in bloom.
Emailed Kathi and David about reunion. Watched a Miss Marple mystery on TV- inane- waste of time.

Saturday, July 11, 2009
.2 in rain a.m.
To Resource Center at 1:00 after watching an Adrian Bloom episode on British Estate Gardens on the Victory Garden program.
Judy Peterson at resource center with me. Jim helped me inventory the books sold and gift shops. John Shauk (?) requested access to 1924 Marion Star bound copies so Jim found it for him in the new archives under loading dock. When they returned I found he was looking for a picture of Carl Sawyer so I showed him the drawer of Sawyer material and the box that we purchased from Craig Shermer. the original of the Carl Sawyer was soon found and Jim copied for him.
Drove Jim to CVS Pharmacy for his prescription and deleted about 200 photos with some with one command from my Olympia digital 5 camera while I waited. then took him to Harding Memorial for work in progress of restoration of the marble. Dropped him off at his mother’s home. Baked pizza for supper.
Watched several episodes on PBS of Are You Being Served, a tribute to Molly Pidjen who played Mrs. Slocum 1922 to 2009.

Friday, July 10, 2009
Found a wood tick crawling on my lower neck so that was the black mole I found recently between my breasts!