Category: Trella Diaries

Tuesday, September 3, 1991
Mary & I picked Kristi up at Pt. Columbus

Monday, September 2, 1991
Wrote letter to Tommy Hemmerly (thanking him for excerpts on Sears Woods Survey), Mary Thomas (wife on 392 E Church St – formerely8 560 & pix I took of it), Wilbert Snyder (comment on J.T.’s letter to him saying walls in lobby WILL be installed) & Patricia Michaels- Ex Dir of AASLH with pix of Mary Morgan she requested.
In to HH at 1:00 – about 10 people in. Copied Bd minutes for Exec Comm & ran 50 more copies of Horticulture Schedule. Checked on inventory of After 40 Years. We have 206 copies left. Have to check to see if we have more Mosher money. Also checkwed ribbon for Fall Fair & we need Blue & Red – Sr. Div.
Me 2 Marys at Michaels for Mary J’s birthday dinner – Mary J asked me if I could eat with ordinary people what with my picture in the paper twice in 3 days – Never a word of appreciation – praise – whatever for the accomplishments the articles represented. Now she’s 76-
Home by 6:00 & started on piles of papers all over house.

Sunday, September 1, 1991
78-51
Marion Book 2 hrs
Watered lawn & front flower beds. Used last of Bloomlife Fertilizer. Entered C. Myers story of Sawyer Sanitarium into computer for future use. Trying to [blank]

Raked up tip white oak branches that cicadas nipped off. Have been singing for several weeks. Grass littered with branches. Lots of acorns – But tonight not a one singing.

Saturday, August 31, 1991
MCHS 5 hrs.
Wrote up minutes of Aug 20 Board Meeting – Spent time learning XTree Pro. Me Mary at Bob Evans for supper at 4:30 & then to Waldo (Grolls Furniture) to check out Glider Rocers made in Quebec Canada. Nice motion. Helped her choose fabric. Will take 6 to 12 weeks to get it. Took legal responsibility to Hal Bobncutter. Gett appraiser for HH most important. TO Sears to get paint for garage door & sealer for greenhouse walls – $42.
Home by 7:30 – TV – Golden Girls & to bed by 9:30. Cool breezes.

Friday, August 30, 1991
95/70
Bricks ½ hr
Mary & Wilda picked me up at 7 – Drove throught misty morning with red sun coming up – Took Brick orders & 2 “remake” bricks to Glen/Gery.

To Don* & Agnes’  via 95-13-97-255-341 – There by 10:30. Tom & Velma stopped in. They have moved in to house on hill leaving their home in NJ.
Heather & Holly came over after school – 13 & 15 – 8th & 10th grade. Delicious chicken dinner, scalloped potatoes, carrots, spinach, red cabbage & devil’s food cake. They’ve built a small deck off back of house. Don has a square foot garden. Produces all their vegetables – Tomatoes & cantaloupe on trellises. Huge – 200 lb pumpkin (squash). Mary & I took turns talking to Agnes so Wilda could have some time with Don. Left at 5:00 for Akron. Doris didn’t know when to expect Wilda but she will stay all night there and ‘til Tues. Her High School Reunion is Fri & Sat next week. We left about 7:40 – Drove thru shower, but none at home when we got here at 9:15.

*[Don Shuster, Wilda’s brother who lived on a farm in Harrison County, Ohio after retiring from Goodyear Tire in Akron.  Wilda is Perry and Sylvia (Hemmerly) Shuster’s daughter, and Sylvia was Ray Hemmerly’s sister. Ray Hemmerly was Trella and Mary’s father.]

Thursday, August 29, 1991
92/70
MCHS Brick 2 hrs
Kass called saying John Teeter called her about getting vinca plants. Found them at Carmar at 50 for $13.50 But busy or no answer at Teetor’s.
Loaded up jugs of water to water Norway Spruce at Jackson Center Cemetery – Mary & WIlda & I drove there. Wilda not aware that her ancestors were buried there – David & Sarah Baker Hemmerly – Samuel & Susannah Zimmerman Baker – Conrad & Margaret Hemmerly. Stopped at Fanny & Floy Baker (Samuel Baker’s) homestead. Karl Wright mowing. He bought it from Floy. Drove through Forest & reminisced about Saturday night shopping & visiting there & Baker Reunions in Gormly Park. Home thru Killdeer – Lakes very low – good for shorebirds & egrets. Supper at Mary’s. Corn, melon, tomatoes & bratwurst. Peaches (from my tree) & ice cream. TOured Heritage Hall & picked up brick orders. All bricks laid that Todd can do.
Home to enter infor in Brick.dbf ready to take to Mike Lyon at Glen/Gery tomorrow AM.

Wednesday, August 28, 1991
Rusty Schultz & helper replaced sills on greenhouse & sealed it with cement. $355 – then installed insulation panels on spring loaded rods. %557 – Richard Davidson had to bring them up because he didn’t think he could fix the greenhouse in one day.
Phil Postell out with new screen for patio door & squared up the frame. So I waited for weeks & they would appear day Wilda was here. Had to change plans to go as I needed to be here. So Mary picked up the Huber Newsletter & corn & brought Wilda out & we had lunch on deck- quiche, tomatoes & peaches & ice cream & thebn put labels on Newsletter & Mary took them back in to Fahey Bank to mail as I had to wait until Rusty finished to give him a check. Then in to Meijers to pick up pix & took new slacks to shop on Church St to have them lengthened.
To Mary’s for dinner – corn on the cob – Bratwurst, tomatoes, Indiana melon & raspberry short cake. Wilda has been missing good Ohio produce. She showed videos & snapshots of her family & trips to Caribbean & Alaska.
She is worried about Jackyes’ attitude towards gher family since Kent’s death. She shuts them out – and won’t give the boys responsibilities.

Tuesday, August 27, 1991
90/69 35th 90 degree day this summer. Watering
Ran EHMA labels on 20 mhz computer using DBaseII as I still get an error in Foxplus when I try to run labels. (Forgot to change printer to Draft on WS5.5)
Wrote story on Award & took to Star. Bently truck unloading dirt for new flower bed so I asked if they had ½ load left so took my address & took it right out.
Meet Mary at Hemmerly’s – to Turner’s and picke 4 pts red raspberries. Traffic heavy at 23 & 270 – Wilda awaiting at gate – smoking. Looks great but hobbles like me. Drove downtown Cols to see the 6 tons of Belgian tuberous begonias spread on Statehouse lawn in gorgeous design. Only drove by so could only see color. Stopped at Buehlers in Delaware for supper. Toured Hemmerly’s & New Dimension when we picked up my car. Year end report from Acct – Sales $478,000 profit down about $19,000. Message on answering machine that Rusty will be up tomorrow to repair greenhouse.

Monday, August 26, 1991
EHMA 8 hrs
Watering – wrote Newsletter using a combinatiopn of Ventura Publisher and WordStar 5.5 Need more copy so excerpted material from Geo W. King book on his relationship with E. Huber.
Picked up labels at HH & 4 rows of Postal, Organizations & Schools (LCD) are laid. Took dummy to Laippley’s & can’t get it until We. AM. Picked up AAA books on PA, MD – had to have new card made. Ate with mary at Perkins.
Kristi called last night with names of motels in Annapolis. Called 3 & filled because of Parents Weekend – Sop called Holiday Inn at Glen Burnie # 1 S & got room for $58.00

Sunday, August 25, 1991
Made 25 prairie plant signs with Avery Label maker & taked to stakes & got them up with Kensel’s help just before 3:00. About 20 people came in the heat. Jackal & Barb Reece from Caledonia & 2 others walked the whole mile.