Category: Trella Diaries

Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Sad day–
Email from David saying Neva Harris died – 96 years old – Died at Heartland. Email from Bob Columber – Erma Hutchman died at Kingston Residence. Bill Laidlaw’s obituary from Columbus Dispatch received by email from Mave Matyac. Bob COlumber called and asked me to write a tribute to Erma – Difficult – sent it to David H & Kathi to vwet.
Call from Royce – has a ticket for Lake Erie Trip Thursday so will clean on Saturday. Call from Glen (633 Bordeaux) saying he will bring paper tomorrow for me to sign to get rent money from VA – So called Jim Carpenter & Glen will bring him out at 10:00 tomorrow. To Le Salon at 3:00 for hair do – $13.50
Gassed up at Swifty $2.59 gal.
To Hemmerly’s Flowers & ordered flowers for Neva & Erma – Card for Kyle’s birthday the 13th. Also sent him $20 bill.
To HH for exec meeting – no copies of ‘After 40 Years’ available for woman researching pOWs – I didn’t stay for meeting.

Monday, August 10, 2009
Email from Stu Koblentz- Bill Laidlaw was swimming in the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard where family members have a home. His wife, Danea saw him struggling & swam out to him – he was gray – and died in her arms.
Gale here for supper – Talked of publishingt Charles & Ruth Mosher’s book on Underground RR in Ohio. Also a researcher on POPW’s in Ohio will be at Heritage Hall tomorrow. She picked up the potted redbud, red ash and walnut trees.
Kathi’s email suggested I’d email Kristi of my activities – so I did.

Sunday, August 9, 2009
90 sunny
About 6:00 PM an email from Stu Koblentz ‘Bill Laidlaw dies while swimming’ – Such a shock! Made friends at Tiffin Award & he visited Terradise – loved bringing crystal, award & photos.
Loafed most of day – email from Jackye Powell – ‘Leon’s garden at Flagstaff’ Pix of some small purple spikes Gale had in a pot on her patio 6-
Long email from kathi telling of her long telephone conversations – Kyle will be 16 on Aug 13 – a Jr. in high school. All boys in bowling leagues.

Saturday, August 8, 2009
82 cloudy .2 in rain AM
At Resource Center from 1:00 to 3:00.
With help of Becky Oldham we looked through all of the Warren Sawyer collection but could not find photo of Harding Memorial with clouds hovering over it. Not sure we should provide fodder for another scandal monger.
2 Genealogy Researchers – one had an obituary with a Spencer Ave 1926. I pointed out that Spencer St. was only 4 blocks long – so couldn’t be Marion, Ohio. They thanked me for pointing them in another director.
SHopped at Aldi’s on easy to Gale & Dan’s hme east of Fulton, Morrow Co. Got lost. It is turn left at Fulton, right on Co. Rd 26. Cross over 71 & immediate turn left on Co. Rd 179. Others had eaten when I got there about 4:45. Sam Norris & wife. Jan & Paul Augenstein, Mike and Valenda Mackay only other MCHS board members there. All others Dan & Gale’s relatives.
I gave them the $100 bill that Hugh Morgan sent me several years ago – and a note in the card to pick up the seedling trees David dug for them.
Home about 6:00 – No TV worth watching.

Friday, August 7, 2009
Gary Iams brough Emily Meyer – student co-ordinator of OSUM prairie. Thought she should meet you and see Terradise & the Preserve. So I cleaned up the golf cart and gave them a tour down in the woods & prairie across the road. Then we drove to Preserve. Gary estimates the hackberry tree that was cut was between 150 & 200 years old. Here only an hour but I gave Emily at lot of Terradise & Prairie history. Gary told her the Campus Prairie would not have existed if I hadn’t shown Larry Yoder the RR Prairie (Claridon Prairie) and that I saved it with my givt of $5,000 when Dean Hazard was going to plow it under & rent to plant corn.
Did a watering of all the pots – So handy to have the hydro hose winder.
Took a nap – Then mowed upper lawns before supper & TV.

Thursday, August 6, 2009
82 sunny
Couldn’t sleep so got up at 3:30 – Rewrote Steven Hiller’s ‘Americana’ article on the Ora Mansion in which he never says where it is located (among many other stupid sentences – disjointed information. He needs more than an editor – doesn’t even do elementary research. Family names with no first names – not all transactions dated – etc., etc. Probably won’t have the nerve to send him my version.
Also scanned Kathi’s 8th grade class picture. All members (and their teachers) autographed the reverse. Sent a copy to Kathi for her to identify pictures with names.
Johnson Property Service employee arrived about 11:30 & fertilized the upper lawn & end of lower driveway lawn.
Watered trees in pots that David dug for Gale & Dan.
Email from Gary Iams asking to come to Terradise with Emily Meyer. Ok’s it.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
82 Sunny
Phone call & email from Dana – Cols Dispatch reporter doing an article on Harding Memorial – emailed my story of June 16, 1931. At the dedication of it – seeing Hoover & Coolidge pass us as we sat on the aisle.
To Marion to meet with Kit Fogle for report on my Romine-Howser HPEF & my investment of $60,000 from Ins. policy with MCHS as beneficiary HPEF down.
To Toyota McDaniel for my first oil change – Free! – purchased 6 sweet corn from Crum’s wagon.
Cooked supper of pork, sweet corn, blueberry muffins & watermelon.
Gale stopped by after picking up her pickup truck bed filled with logs cut in 2003 for the new prairie.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Dow Jones 9320
Met Josh* at Ryan’s for lunch. Nice gabfest about his customers & their web sites that he creates & maintains.
To Dr. Wingers & he cleaned hearing aids – Inserted his batteries & now I can hear. Picke up brochures on storm doors at Lowes. Left brochures at Terradise Nature Preserve. Several sign-ins including Bob Klips yesterday.
Wrote letter to Cheif of Division of Natural Areas & Preserves of the Ohio Dept of Natural Resources telling him of history of Terradise.
Listed in a file the 50 or so plants blooming at Terradise Aug. 1

[* probably Jed]

Monday, August 3, 2009
Took 3nd Actinol tablet for osteoporosis. Revisited Gracie Johnson (in a wheelchair) and her 3 grandchildren stopped here after visiting TNP. Raved over my ‘Garden of Eden’. Heard me on radio and ‘just knew you would live in a place like this – and she only saw the upper lawn area.
Gale here for supper at 6:00. But Jed & Rachel & Miette didn’t arrive until 7:30.
Had baked chicken, Harvard beets, mashed potatoes, blueberry muffins, & watermelon. Jed is so good with Miette aged 6. Taught her to eat beets.
Facebook message from Jan Kennedy about friends who want prairie seeds.
Emailed Ed Lux about scarcity of wasps, fireflies, butterflies, mosquitos, honeybees. He poo-poohed it.

Sunday, August 2, 2009
Call from Jan Kennedy – (Mansfield Native Plant Society) alerted me to an article about prairies in Ohio by Steve Stevens in today’s Columbus Dispatch. I contacted link online. He didn’t mention the Sandusky Plains – originally 200,000 acres – So I wrote an article about my involvement in making people aware of it & sent to her.
Then Dave Matyac sent me the same article with color pictures!
Swent my article to David & Gale for posting on MCHS website.
Fed the birds & picked up Sunday Star – cut some lettuce for salad for supper – my outdoors activities for today.
Cooked the beets Don Keil brought me & pickled most of them.