Category: Trella Diaries

Sunday, June 7, 2009
82°
Sunny lazy day- went outside about 4:00 p.m. to water. Planted Laura Bush petunia plants in bed by Greenhouse and —–. Watered- my eyes watered so I could hardly see used eye drops. No help. North garage door won’t go down and I don’t have the strength to pull it down. Raccoon got into garage bag.

Saturday, June 6, 2009
Before I was up David mulched the fibrous begonias beds and loaded bricks in his car. After breakfast he demonstrated the newest in computer technology a flat screen that you touch to activate programs. $800 for the 19-inch one and he also bought a larger one 1200. hopes this will appeal to Funeral Directors to interact with customers well planning a service. He completed everything on my list except step to mailbox. clean the pergola area of weeds and mulch. I planted more tomato plants. He transplanted Lirope from below stone wall into the bed above. I pruned the Weeping cherry. He cut the sprouts from it that were 1 inch thick trunks and 8 ft high then mowed more down in the woods.
I got ready to go to Resource Center and then realized I was too tired. but David said he would stop and see the arts and culture exhibit. if I had gone in as planned, I would have missed seeing the blue gray gnat catcher land on the deck railing for only seconds!

Friday, June 5, 2009
Sunny 72°
Mowed lawn and across road.
Did laundry, made bean salad, fixed sauerkraut and bratwurst and microwave mashed potatoes for supper. David arrived from Marysville about 5:00. Ate and then to work on my list of jobs. started on raised to bed by greenhouse. planted striped Canna from Zimmerman. Dug variegated hosta from lowest Terrace and removed cement blocks from old pump pit and replanted in front of canna. Almost filled bed. then he dug out more weedy stuff in bed by lower drive and spread mulch. then mowed bank and down in woods

Thursday, June 4, 2009
Royce cleaning. I washed blue and white Great Smoky Mountain coverlet and put on bed summer side up. A gift from Hemmerly’s staff. Cost $85 about 1975
Got into family history drawer of safe in office. Mother and Daddy’s journal starting in April 1912. Love letters. Sheneman letter during 1913 flood. 1926 hurricane notes and expenditures 1926.
Heritage Hall at 4:45 for opening of arts and culture exhibit. Art Beery on hand to be sure his paintings were properly hung and framed. Mo attendees when I left at 5:45 to be at Terradise for delivery of black mulch from Rickett’s Nursery. Andy Ricketts (Opal and Kensel’s grandson) hydraulic dump truck put a pile by mailbox bed. by Paulownia Tree in Hap Dowler’s red dump cart. $147.95 ($30 delivery) in 3 cubic yards mulch at $32 a yard.
Email from David- will be here Friday and into Saturday
Andy spotted the beaver in the pond. Came up on bank for a few minutes.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
55° raining all day
Mailed birthday cards to Bob Sands and Tony Wright. Shopped at Reece’s. Minute steaks for supper for David and a new corn broom.
Had supper ready and no David. Checked the email at 6:15- rained out see you Sunday evening and we’ll work at Terradise Monday. So I ate the steak, scalloped corn and strawberry shortcake. Email from Kathi- she had a phone call from Margo Gruber apologizing for saying Pat Esterline did not graduate from Harding in 1959 and therefore she could not attend the 50th Anniversary reunion. Said it was okay for her but not a crowd to come. What a hubbub. Mary Merchant Gruber supported Kathi’s request.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
1 & 1/2 in rain last night Fields flooded Sunny 70°
Dow Jones 8740
Jim Carpenter here from 9:30 to 1:30. pulled the Dame’s Rocket before it could go to seed. Worked on bed by mailbox digging out campanula. Cut the allium balls in seed. Planted Heavenly Blue Morning Glories around tower that he wrapped in chicken wire- only two shoots of the red hibiscus.
Trimmed the Forsythia and Rose Combs along walk to river and rescued Oregon Holly from the euonymous. Transplanted Heavenly Blue Morning Glories to bleeding heart bed and put chicken wire against lattice for them. Finished pruning the wisteria and also the euonymus encroaching on steps.
Planted five cleoma from Sue Harter and cut the Mexican bamboo. Cosmos has terminated but only two leaves. he took the Marigold plants to Heritage Hall to plant in Box by East parking lot.
call to of par. 21,000 investment. so I loaded a reluctant Jesse into the pet carrier with the hatchback full of recyclables and headed to Marion. about 3:45 signed papers, unloaded at Sims Recycling and took Jesse to cancer for feline leukemia and rabies shot.
Mike Lyon living in Stumbo house. Stopped in his ATV. Nice chat. He had a stint inserted.

Monday, June 1, 2009
Rain a.m. Sunny p.m.
Prepared more material for Art Exhibit poems of Ray Romine including scanning his photo. To Dr. Cloran at 2:30- two upper teeth filled- pin installed on right one since it was so fragile. $220!
To Heritage Hall with Ray’s poems.
To Ohio State Bank to be sure my debit card was activated and that automatic payments were still active. Took Ray’s art material to Heritage Hall. Gale hard at work on exhibit. Told her I would send marigold plants for Jim Carpenter to plant in box by east parking lot.
Stopped at Crum’s strawberry wagon. First time there this year. Berries $4 a quart. Shopped at Meijer for marigolds and birthday cards for Bob Sands and Tony Wright, poison ivy itch control, lipstick and two bags of Miracle-Gro potting soil 15% off. $32 saved about $8!
Thunderstorm from 8:30 to 9:30 lots of lightning.
Email from Kathi- Olgua is at Pointe Nursing Home after heart seizure- disoriented.

Sunday, May 31, 2009
Lazy day. Pruned the Wisteria on the deck railing- watered greenhouse- worked Sunday crossword puzzle.
Reading again ‘Personality of a Cat’- Chessie could write a chapter.
Chose some of Ray’s poems from 1952 notebook and transcribed to 20-point type.

Saturday, May 30, 2009
To Meijer about 11:15 to pick up Actonal prescription. To Marion Cemetery to confirm that 2008 had been engraved on George Siffrit’s grave. Pictures for Bates family in New Hampshire. Drove by Hemmerly monument- planting okay. To Arby’s for a sandwich that I ate at Heritage Hall parking lot and to Resource Center at 1:00. Sorted MCHS newsletters from two notebooks. Lots of duplicates- put in manila folder. Jim Carpenter scanned article full page on closing Erie Lackawanna railroad west of Caledonia [sic – east of Green Camp] area I purchased for Green Camp General prairie.
Shopped at Lowe’s for plain brass faucet (brass covered by rubber protector) $7. Shopped at Aldi’s $42. Home by 5:00. Made and baked corn bake Memorial Methodist Church recipe book page 57, ate my supper and left some for Gale who arrived about 7:30 and appreciated food. She gave me seedling grasses for OSUM greenhouse she rescued from the trash. Then she dug two kinds of ostrich ferns, giant Jack in The Pulpit and wild geranium. Asked me to send material on Ray Romine’s poems for the Arts Exhibit opening Thursday.

 

Friday, May 29, 2009
50° am 72 p.m. sunny
David, Jed and Dave Decker okayed Terradise Nature Preserve Endowment management by Marion Community Foundation.
Gardened from 10:00 to 1:00. Thinned lettuce plants and replanted along pool. Potted Flawless miniature rose two plants in pot I selected as Garden Club gift. More plants pulled out by roots. Deer?
Mowed upper lawn and across road into old prairie area. Blackberry bushes have taken a big area.