Category: Trella Diaries

Wednesday, August 14, 1991
Cleaned house somewhat & cooked dinner for Mary, David & Vivian Bratten. Vivian walked down on patio & looked around. David & I took tour around pond & down in the woods.
Had green bearns & ham with new potatoes – but Vivian doesn’t eat green beans! She used 4 lbs of blueberries to make a cobbler!

$45 season tickets Ameriflora
$19 – single day

Tuesday, August 13, 1991
MCHS Exec Comm 2 ½ hrs
Mary & I picked up David & Vivian Bratten at Cols Airport about 5:00. Picked 5 lbs of blueberries at Turner’s on way down. Ate at Al’s on way back so I was ½ hr late for 7:00 Exec Bd meeting.

Monday, August 12, 1991
61/85 Sunney E breeze
OAHSM 3 hrs
Did laundry before picking Mary up to go to Grand Prairie Cemetery for Geneva Brewer’s funeral. Mary helping with lunch, but I wasn’t invited. Went to Sears to check on replacement seats for chairs on deck (one burned). Got corn at Crum’s stand & green beans, tomatoes, melon & new potatoes at Barks Rd. stand. Home for lunch – watering. Worked on Beech deck to finish judging local history publications entered in OAHSM awards. – 9 entries & I chose 5 to get awards. Thank goodness another judge votes too. Thought David might be up so didn’t go to Trinity for ‘Service of Praise’ for Geneva. Mary reported church was packed.

Sunday, August 11, 1991
Picked Mary up at 1:30 & drove to Upper Sandusky to see Fanny Baker. She had a stroke about 10 days ago. She had eyes closed & opened them briefly – couldn’t understand her few words. Took film to Meijet. Had planned to stop at HH but too tired. Called kathi. Bob ibn OK City for school. Dee back home hut her friend (Japanese_) is there too. What is Dave in for?

Saturday, August 10, 1991
Yesterday’s Star carried Geneva Brewer’s death notice Thursday PM
So sorry for Mary’s sake. They spent so much time together.
Unpacked. Had rained ½ in. Thursday Eve so things looked good, but watering front grass.
To Claridon Prairie about 12:45 to meet group from Wilmot Nature Center – Stark Co. with Clinton Hobbs & Perry Peskin, about 15 – all good botanists. Kensel led the tour & I hopscotched in my car. They walked the whole mile from 1:00 to 4:00. I drove into marion for corn & gas & also had oil change etc at new Penzoil Oil Exchange for$19.37
David called to welcome home – Will be up first of week with TerraPro for Bods & others to Beta test.
Ruth Mosher out to run a letter on my laser printer.

Friday, August 9, 1991
8:15 – 7292 65 degrees Leaving Relax Inn Ingersoll. Rolls and coffee in lobby $53 room $63 with 15% tax. Overcast – 250 miles from home about. Miles of Colorado Blue Spruce at fence line planted too close. Ohio-like farmland. Lots of cornfields.
8:30 London 300,000.
8:45 7322 – Off I401 to St. Thomas pop. 29,000 to see Juimbo Petunia Hanging Baskets.
9:05 – 7332 – Jumbo killed in train wreck here – Lvg 9:15 on Rt 3 west.
10:05 – Views of Lake Erie – Farms extend to Lake – corn, soybeans.
10:07 7375 off on Kent Co. 17 to Pt. Auxpins Park [?]
10:09 – Lake Erie N. Shore – homes along beach
10:15 Park $5.75 for day – $4.75 American. Hike to South Point.
11:20 to beach Temp 71
11:45 back to car 7388
12:00 Heading inland to I401 on Rt 51 & 16
12:15 I401 – 7404 78 degrees
12:40 Tilbury 74e30 Gas & coffee 11.35 litres $6.12
1:14 7446 Sign on I401 Jack Miners Bird Sanctuary at Belle River Road.
1:26 – Windsor pop. 191,000
Took route 3 (3B goes downtown)
1:35 7467 A Relax Inn
1:42 7468 Ambassador Bridge Toll $1.50 US – $1.75 Canadian
1:48 Customs gate
1:50 To South I 75
2:00 On I 75
2:10 Goin N on S bound part of I 75
2:16 Sibley Rd. back on W. Lanes. 7501
2:40 Exit 18 – Pilot Gas $1.125 – 16.5 gal $18.75
3:00 7520 – Ohio Line 70 degrees
3:09 Maumee River
General Schwarzkoff retiring
3:35 Slowdown should be on road to W at Exit 171
Construction end at N. Baltimore
4:10 wendy’s in Findlay
4:35 leaving
224 to 37 to 15 to 23
5:50 7636 Terradise

Thursday, August 8, 1991
7-009 – 229 trip
Mary called me at 8:30
Bath – Canoe ride – 2 canoes up Seguin River
Pix of cardinal flower
Lunch

12:56 Log thru raspberry Lane & the piney monarchs
1:08 Orrville
1:37 Rosseau gas. 58 litres $10 can 17 ½ 5 gal – To Shadow River & to Lake to our 1956.
1:40 Lvg Rosseau onm Rt 141
Rt 11 to Toronto 207 KM (120 mi)
2;30 Toffee 81 cents/can cloudy 80
3:40 – Along I400 Service 7161 36 L $17 American with coupon.
4:00 Green Valley Truck fearms – flat, black soil.
4:178 Toronto – 1,133,000 pop. – traffic
4:25 I401
4:35 traffic clear at Rt 10 – new interchange
5:30 – Raining near Drumby [?] raining
6:00 7287 Ingersoll – Relax Inn – 3 stories
In to Ingersoll for dinner. At least 6 restaurants downtown in town of 8,500. Ate at Miss Ingersolls – $11 for 2. Bought Sucaryl $7 for Mary – cheese $11 for me.

Wednesday, August 7, 1991
69-88
Up at 8:45 – Mary, Vince & I had bfst on deck. Bill stopped over to ask Vince to take his boat out.
10:05 Left cottage for Rosseau. Working on bridge – driving piles.
10:20 Orrville. Took Star Lake Rd
10:27 Star Lake
10:31 Turtle Lake – spotted the islet thu trees – many roads now to lake
10:50 Pix Dan’s house
10:55 Rt 141 Rosseau – Our 1956? Cabin – General Store – Bot $5.50 – Marians.
11:20 Lovely home – but all steps 2 in. too high. Light lunch & then to Alan’s – Met his second wife, Mary. was Rosseau’s librarian & Alan lived with her before Betty died- sad. But all the kids accept Mary. Took Alan with us to Parry Sound for 3 hr ride on the 20,000 Island tour in Georgian Bay. Lovely – views thru islands only 50 ft apart. Back to Marian’s for dinner & to meet Peter – They plan to be married in Dec. Kitty & Vince lived together for 11 years before they married! Peter builds houses in winter & they spend winter at Key Largo on a boat. Alan with me to their old home that Tim is renovating. Tim dug folden glow for me. Grew up knowing it, but no one grows it anymore. Glad to find it. Back to Isabella Lake about 10:00.

Tuesday, August 6, 1991
Slept until 8:30 – lazed on deck as Longs still sleeping. – Krystal determines rising time around here. She is darling, but is the focus of Kitty & Vince’s life. Doting parents who hang on her every word. But she is so loving, lively & amusing that we love her too.
Haven’t done so much of nothing in years.
Wes to Parry Sound about 4 & touted the town – Tower Hill Garden grew up around a Forest Service fire tower. At at Jolly Roger Inn on Mother’s rent money. Pickerel delicious – service terrible – $70 total Canadian.

Monday, August 5, 1991
106904 = 500
To Rosseau
3:23 – 9:15 Up at 7:15 – Bfst McDonald $3.30 Can. Rail Fences – cream brick 1850’s houses – well tended farms – glimpses of Lake Huron – quiet views of Lake Huron
9:10 – N. of Givener – Nuclear Plant at Lake – Power lines across road.
9:30 – Pt. Elgin – Esso gas (not full) 38 litres $20 ($18 USA) Lots of Motels
9:45 ‘Southampton’ ‘Peaches and Cream’
Sweet corn $3 doz – Fawcett Farms in huge field – woods of aspen & willow
10:15 Owens Sound 20,000 pop. Sandstone bluffs – red brick houses – 69 degrees – ‘Golden Glow’ in pile of rubble – goldenrod blooming. Cut stone houses. St. Vincent twp view of Notrawason
10:30 Meadford Bayview Motel (Real view of bay) – houses right on beach, High Bluff ‘Blue Mt’ -Last of Niagra Escarpment – Arbor Vitae woods./ Bay along Rt 26 (Scenic Caves)
11:00 – Collingwood – Development – condominiums 95,000. Cranberry Inn
11:15 Wasaga Beach pop 5,000 – Tourist Town – middleclass – 67 degrees 510 miles
12:00 (at Rt 93 we took on 23 straight at Waverly-) rock fences piled up. Rt 400 ends – into Rt 69
12:”00 (100 mi on trip) – osprey – solid traffic southbound (end of long weekend) – granite cuts – Severn River
12:08 – S bound thinning some – 69 improved road since 1940’s – birch trees
12:40 Picnic at Foots Bay 180 trip
1:50 – 106988
Kitty & Vince Long so welcoming,. Cottage spacious, view spectacular Humming birds at feeder. Pork tnederlon * corn I bought at Scarboro.