Category: Trella Diaries

Friday, May 11, 1956
Erma Hutchman, Don Smith & I carried on. Don Stahl had bad night & had to go home but came back in evening OK. Fanny, FLoy & Mary Baker good help & got wonderful food ready. Milan & Alice Gorby in at 6:00 & we all worked until 10:30. They all night with me. Kathy left at noon with Helen Brocklesby & Pat Esterline for Asbury College.

Thursday, May 10, 1956
To shop at 8:30 & Erma Hutchman ready to work. Did orchids & cymbidiums. Don Smith (on strike from Shovel) worked with us. To Pollack at 4:30 to see crab tree where Mary Jordan works & shopped for sweater for mother but couldn’t find. About 60 orders for corsages. Found chestnut sided warbler dead by greenhouse.

Wednesday, May 9, 1956
June Graham here to clean. Daddy out & cut fencing out of hill that was a mess. In at 2:00 – priced plants, etc. Shopping with Kathy after school & we both got shoes. Talk tonight to Sorority – wold #10 worth containers. Home 11:00 – Poohed. Mother & Kathy got garage ready for Mother’s Day.

Tuesday, May 8, 1956
In at 10:00. 2 Big funerals so busy all day. Home at 6:00 & David to scout meeting while I got hair cut & set. Stopped at Nickle’s to see if Henry will put steps in for me.
Trees are leafing out this week.

Monday, May 7, 1956
At shop until 3:30. Grocery shopping & home to get supper for Mary & Rocky. Rocky put up Terradise sign & door closure.
Cold! 45 high 32 low.

Sunday, May 6, 1956
Awoke at 6:00 in Kathy’s room & Indigo buntings outside. List to 32 when Alice Gorby & I left at 8 to do 2 weddings. Took all day home at 5 & Milan had 80 on his bird list & we added 3 more. Mother & daddy here for supper. Mary & Rocky stopped. Had fish Milan caught; cleaned. Hot – but showered & cool tonight.

Saturday, May 5, 1956
Lots of corsages at shop. Called Alice & Milan Gorby asking them to come tonight instead of Sunday A.M. Kathy to Westerville for District Scholarship test. She cleaned house some. A & M rolled in about 8. Milan fished & so to bed about 11:30. Daffs are at height.

Friday, May 4, 1956
In planning to go to Garden Club but too busy at shop. Stopped at Lockwoods for tulip tree on way home. To May Festival at school. Fifth grade (David) wound maypole. Pansies for all mothers. Home 10:45.

Thursday, May 3, 1956
Beautiful Day. Temp 70. Mary Lockwood picked me up at 9:00 – Got poison ivy shot & then off to Knox Co. to Lockwood’s cabin on the Kokosing. Gorgeous wildflowers. Home at 5 & planted things we dug. In to Marion for wedding appointment & then to H. Ray Wagner’s to get Kathy who studied for Science Test.

Wednesday, May 2, 1956
[Poison] Ivy spreading hand & face so stopped for shot at Axthelm. Busy at shop all day. Rain A.M. but birds plentiful. Hutchmans out tonight. Kathy no supper got again & to cabinet meeting & didn’t do dishes. Set out forget-me-nots, grass & coral bells from Kinters. Made David’s Jr. River Patrol Flag & TV.