Category: Trella Diaries

Sunday, December 15, 1991
32-15
Worked on creating Christmas card labels, writing, printing & readying for mailing my C’mas letter. Card from edgar Buensucesco suggesting the ‘Newsletter’ form. Changed yes from logical to character field & then labels printed.

Saturday, December 14, 1991
MCHS 2
Came to me overnight that by changing logical field to a character field I might be able to select & print labels.
It worked!

Thursday, December 12, 1991
MCHS
David 1 ½ hrs
Trella 1 ½ hrs
Brick certificates.
David at my computer at 6:30 AM working on TerraPro update for Springfield client. After bfst I cleaned garage & burned trash. About 10:30 started working on changes to Brick cert file with him. David left at 11:45 for FoxPro seminar in Cols at Compuserve bldg in Dublin. I left about 12:05 after getting check cashed at Caledonia bank.
Presenter had been Ashton-Tate employee using dBase until Oct when Ashton-Tate was bought out. He has lots to learn about Foxpro. David (& others) helped him out. Home in rain after trying to find the Map Store at Kerrick Square.

Wednesday, December 11, 1991
Royce cleaned.
After she left started a data base of my address book.
David came in about 10:30. Fed him pizza & chicken sandwiches. Had been to Dayton & Springfield.
Mary out AM with grapefruit & back in PM with a new (14,500 miles) Cadillac deVille – white, dark blue leather interior. Her 1986 model had 115,000 miles. Cost her $24,000 – down from $34,000 as car rental turns them in before 15,000 miles. $5,000 trade in.

Tuesday, December 10, 1991
29/42 – foggy
MCHS 6 ½ hrs
Wrote up Nov 19 Board Meeting from Ann Bush notes & Annual Meeting from my notes. Also found draft of letter to go with brick appreciation certificates. In to Marion at 1:00 for Perm at Le Salon of Style (Changed from The Styling Salon!) $35
Me Eula at HH at 3:15 & we worked on setting up committee chair – still not heat in building. The new $2,500 electrical system on boiler shorted out. At 4:15 Exec Comm meeting.
Hurried them thru agenda so I could ge to Garden Club of Marion C’mas Dinner at Ramada Inn (formerly Harding Inn- Holiday House, etc) Sat between Jim Mautz & Tom Quilter. Both interested in Prairie. River Valley Singerss gave propgram – reminding me of when Dave Decker was with that group.
Home by 9:15 – fire in fireplace to burn the oak logs so can put new grate in. One in it is too shallow & puts smoke into the room.
Called Dave & Dee at 10:00 but no one home.. Guess Dave is at sea & Dee working.

Slept until 9:40 – to Marion at 1:00 to go to Palace for Travel Program – Sightseers France – Phil sat with group from FOrest. Talked to Linda Baker Klehm & Dorothy Strawser Klehm (my 8th grade teacher at Oak Street School) during intermission. Linda is descended from Will Baker, daddy’s uncle. Has children Heather & Stephen, age 25. Heather is teaching English in Paris after studying at Sorbonne.
Stopped for Famous Recipe Chicken on way home.Got the C’mas tree decorated & consolidated things so won’t take as much room when I put them away.
Took Howard to grocery.

Sunday, December 8, 1991
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Saturday, December 7, 1991
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Friday, December 6, 1991
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Thursday, December 5, 1991
MCHS 3 hrs
To Baker Middle School for Marion Education Association Community Leaders Day. Served school lunch of chili, cornbread & apple Betty – good. Felt out of my league when we went to Pearl Street School and Punch Walker of Fairfield Engineering & Mr. Sims – both top executives. Carol Cameron’’s 5th grade had done an oral history interview project & had a printed copy to give me.