Category: Trella Diaries

Saturday, January 3, 2009
Sunny 30°
Woke up during the night & before I got back to sleep several chapters of my autobio had popped into my mind. So after feeding the birds and me – to the computer. E-mail from DH – liked my 1927 trip & asked for more.
So I wrote one page on why I didn’t go to college – ‘The Depression Era’
To Marion – at Office Depot got ink cartridges & the other $40 discount on converter box for TV – shopped at Aldi;s $43 – at Meijers $50 – Gas $1.84 gallon.
Unloaded to porch – heavy bags of cat food & litter hard to get into house.

Friday, January 2, 2009
Jim Carpenter here from 9:45 until 12:45 putting Christmas decorations in boxes & stowing in utility room – undecorated the tree & stowed it there also – $35 – gave him a Coronet 1959 magazine with $20 for Christmas – Then to computer to scan the 1927 pix & insert in file of 1927 trips from Ft. Lauderdale – sent it to David H.
E-mail from Dave Decker with 200 images from their 4 day trip to New York including Flavia & D & J in front of New York Library.
Royce cleaning while we were doing this. Even Jim, said it looked cleaned up.
Cooked the sauerkraut for supper. E-mailed the 1927 trip from Ft Lauderdale to Marion to David H at his request – Told me he would do format & style shee

Thursday, January 1, 2009
20° partly sunny
Edited the 1927 trip of our family driving home from FLorida – sent part of it to Gene Sheneman, Uncle Meck’s son.
E-mail from Dve Decker – ask about his C’mas gift since Johanna got her check – Told him ‘it’s in the mail’ – gadget – solar light, radio, temp – He’ll be camping in Mohave Desert – Research project for Geological Survey – Got home from N.Y. Monday. Told him his ‘caving’ book is great!
Egg & sausage for supper – Will cook the sauerkraut tomorrow.
Last evening for Christmas tree and decorations.

Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Woke a 7 AM and in to Perkins for waffle and egg & sausage breakfast.
To Menard’s to pick up 5/8″ x 5 ” lag screws for boardwalk.
Back to Terradise and mowed leaves.
Worked on Boardwalk and finished bridge portion and started with odd shaped deck to join boardwalk to bridge. Ran out of deck boards and stopped around 3 PM. Headed back to Cincinnati.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
After rehearsal with Ken Taylor’s Central Jazz Band at Central Christian Church in Dayton, drove Rt 4 to Terradise arriving about 10:30 PM.
Slept in sleeping bag on living room couch.

Saturday, November 4, 2023
[David & Susannah Haldeman work day]
Up at 6:30 AM and drove truck with 4 concrete slabs for the vernal pool boardwalk. Many leaves from Kentucky Coffee Tree down on lower driveway. Also, hawthorne next to steps down to hickory trees had fallen. Cleaned up and burned hawthorne on the spot. Moved rowboat up the hill and plan to use it to shade out the Japanese Knotweed infestation just off the driveway.
Susannah cleaned up the front plantings of dead hosta and prairie plants.
Tried to start Toro Zero Turn mower, but starter just whizzed.
Picked up spare front tire at Miller Lawn & Equipment, and they will call me Monday for pickup

Decided to keep a diary of my own.
Up at 7:25 – did some transcribing of Trella’s 1999 diary and scanning of Salvation Army Caroler’s Favorites Piano-Vocal book for carol sing.
Breakfast of Eggs, Spam and Bun Toast with Traffic Jam.
To see Ford v. Ferrari at Anderson AMC Dine-in – had popcorn and Vanilla Orange Coke.
Came home about 2:30 and worked on Trella’s Diary – printed 10 copies of Caroler’s Favorites.

4-6:30 PM Clarion Brass (Ken Taylor, Anita Hunt, Jeff Clymer and myself) played for Mt. Washington Holiday Walk.

Monday, January 15, 2001
Called R&R Drain & their crew were here by 1:00 with back hoe & pumping truck. Excavated lawn in area where I insisted the opening to tank would be found & there it was – not under the blacktop as they had insisted when here last fall.
After pumping tank & reaming lines they asked me to flush toilets. The one in main bathroom overflowed same as before so he brought a snake & unplugged it – which is what I asked them to do when they were herre Friday but they insisted on the digging – ! Oh well, the problem is fixed – tank not pumped since 1974!
At 5:00 to Gateway Smorgasbord – for dinner & annual meeting of Edward Huber Memorial Association – John Watkins first president gave run down on history of EHMA. I challenged them to create an endowment fund & much interest shown.

Saturday, May 11, 1991
55-82 Sunny no wind
Madge 2 hrs
Bfst on porch – Many bird songs as I record them for future identifications. Spent most of morning in woods – enjoying Terradise and realizing that all my plans and hopes for what it could be have been realized. Very satisfying thought. This spring growth has been exuberant.
World on Madge’s story for 2 hrs. Ate lunch on deck & missed Kathi’s call so called her back & also talked to Kristi, home for Mother’s Day & for a date with Brad Buchanan – Navy man but also from Kristi’s High School graduating class – She proficiencied er college English & needs only few credits now for her Associate Degree.
To Mary’s at 5:00 to go to Delaware to get a Quiche for Monday & to have dinner at The Mill again. Stopped at Harter’s on way home. So good to see Bob & Sue – Gave him prairie seeds from Kensel that he didn’t have & he gave me Silene virginian & Cardinal Flower & and endangered western sunflower.