Tuesday, May 7, 1991
44-65 Sunny Windy
EHMA ½ hr
Set out the 10 seedling trees from Arbor Day Foundation – red, sliver & sugar maple, red & pin oak, dogwood, redbud, tulip, red & white pine. Nursery row in prairie area. Too tired & too windy to plant prairie seed over there. Set out basket of pansy plants in barrel by side porch.’
Move rolling file by my chair & sorted all current files into it. Will be handy there.
Wrote letter to Dave & Dee, Catherine Thornburg & Fields. Send them original of their note – had given them a copy yesterday. Update Huber dues records.
Swept living room & mopped kitchen to get ready for Marion Nature Society. Only 8 here – nice walk in woods. Rich Bradley hadn’t been here before & Amy Tovar kept saying ‘It’s so lovely.’ Bill & Erma Hutchman & Ed & Becky Lux & Mrs. Little and instead of Jennifer Winsall – Guy Denny, Assistant Chief of Div of Natural Resources, showed up to give the program – Great 2 projector slide show on the State Nature Preserves. Then Guy responded to questions on cuts in Div problems. All over by 9:30.
Category: Trella Diaries
Daily journal of Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine from 1933 to her death on February 19, 2013.
Trella Hemmerly – 1991-05-06
Monday, May 6, 1991
Mary brought Jessie Baker, Martha Kramer & Mildred ? out at 10:00. Walk in woods then served them salad with Ostrich fern tups & quiche – pears & cookies for dessert. In to Palaced by 1:00 for Ken Richter – ‘Safari’. He visited all the game preserves where the African fauna is being ‘preserved’.
Madge Guthery called AM & wanted me to have dinner with her & Elizabeth Jones – visiting from Rochester, NY – So met them at 6:30 at Scotch & Sirloin – First hour over cocktails – me white wine. Had lemon sole – delicious & met Charlie Morbitt Jr who has purchased restaurant from Mike Nicolosi. Home about 9:30. Stopped for gas – $1.08 at Thornton but everyone else has raised to $1.12. Sherry & Joel Field out about 4:30 and paid of balance on their note – the interest they didn’t pay on the land contract – $5,091.
Trella Hemmerly – 1991-05-05
Sunday, May 5, 1991
50-74 ½ in rain
Mowed lower lawn, part of woods, upper, East Lawn 4 hrs. Field’s cancelled trip out to pay off their note. Balance $5091 – Read paper – Tried out both quiches one in microwave – one in oven – over better.
Trella Hemmerly – 1991-05-04
Saturday, May 4, 1991
Wrote IRS letter explaining that Howard’s tax exempt interest was not related to ‘use for education’. Also news story on Marion Nature Society meeting here on Tues. Took it to Star. Washed car at E Center St Automatic. Even pay a machine $3.50 Picked up both Marys & headed to Cols. Delivered to OHS the 3 boxes containing ‘Time & Again’ Exhibit. Have had it since Sept. Then to Craft Show in Buckey Bldg on State Fairgrounds sponsored by Bob and Pat Johnston who put on a comedy style show. Mary bought loomed rug & sweat shirt applique. I bought hand loomed shirt – rosy shades.
Ate at Buehler’s WIndmill Restaurant & got 2 quiches for Monday.
Trella Hemmerly – 1991-05-03
Friday, May 3, 1991
42-65 sunny
MCSH 9-12:30 3 ½ hrs.
Loaded up Edith Keeler’s genealogy & misc & took to Heritage Hall – Norm & Dick West helped me unload & Norm loaded the 3 boxes containing ‘Time & Again’ exhibit from Local History Office. Made out gift form for Edith’s things.
Deposit David’s loan payment at Savings of America – got bananas at 29 cents lb at Big Banana – picked up film of Reg II meeting – Grocery shopped & mailed things back to Blair that I had ordered. Drove past Claridon Prairie – violets, spring beauty, wild strawberry & mustard blooming.
Napped – watched episode of Dallas. A real bust – none of the characters on it except Bobby & JR & Ray and Sue Ellen.
Put captions on pix.
Mary had her eye zapped with laser beam to clear up cloudiness.
Trella Hemmerly – 1991-05-02
Thursday, May 2, 1991
41-67 Sunny wind 16/28
Lazed all day.
Took Howard to Caledonia to grocery. Then across river to see pawpaw blossoms. Lots of them – but shutter on camera locked – battery caput – The Lithium one I bought in Anchorage lasted almost 2 yrs.
Bonnie Bell & friend here to load up bricks. Watered ajuga – Watched out takes of Prairie VCR.
Goofed off all afternoon. Mary out about 7:00 brought copies of Bonnie’s prairie video – one for me and one for Kathi. Went across river to photograph the pawpaws – too dark. Wild hyacinths blooming.
Printed out reports on donors for Norm.
Trella Hemmerly – 1991-05-01
Wednesday, May 1, 1991
70 AM – 62 PM 40 night
MCHS 3 hrs
Since Sunday most of trees have leafed out – Oaks are ‘size of squirrel’s ears’ – time top plant corn, but most fields still wet & little planting done. All pink crabapples have dropped petals.
Started out to plant prairie seeds across road but diverted to transplanting ajuga to bank above lower driveway. Bonnie Bell called offering to bring video tape she made for Regents of Ohio State University on the Marion Campus Prairie that features me with Dean Hazard. So I called Mary to come see it too. Bonnie wrote & produced it & it has a great script. Everything about Marion Co. Prairies. She left me all the originals that has more footage of me.
Martha Neville called saying pussy willows have rooted. Took her some snowflake bulbs.
To Marion Genealogy Society to present possibility of going to meet at Heritage Hall & assisting MCHS in research & library. Looks favorable. Mary traded her Honda mower on a Honda hydroStatic.
Trella Hemmerly – 1991-04-05
Friday, April 5, 1991
54-70 Partly sunny
Took Howard to grocery. Fertilized lower & front lawn. 27-10-10.
Got thank you letter off to Tabor Allison for bringing his students out. Addressed the 7 letters to HP Endowment Fund of MCHS informing them that MCHS owes the fund $26,500 – $2,300 pd in Feb – From proceeds from sale of 225 S. Main St. Addressed announcements of Reg II Meeting to 25 people who attended the 1988 meeting.
Swept out garage. Cut off herbs & cleaned up perennial beds.
Meant to sort out clothes to give to Marion Federated Women’s Club Rummage Sale tomorrow, but didn’t get it done.
To Al’s with 2 Marys. Stopped at Miley’s Carpet to order porch rug but still no good green colors. Estimated about $120.
Bought cherry pie for all of us to celebrate Mary’s birthday.
David called to see if next Tuesday’s meeting could be held earlier so he could be here. He has a job at 7:00 with jazz group. Told him no but got his input. Has decided to not borrow,. But let business expand as it can on income. He’s charging $65 an hr. now.
Trella Hemmerly – 1991-04-30
Tuesday, April 30, 1991
62-75 sunny windy
In at 11:00 for Dental cleaning at Dr. Cloran’s. Deposited IRS refund check at Marion Bank & cashed $100 check. To Henny & Cooper for Premerin prescription & Blue Star salve for corns. Also got pads for Howard to use instead of towels. Picked up form 8815 (Tax exempt EE Bond interest) IRS form. Why didn’t BancOhio Trust proved it when I sent it to them for approval! At Hemmerly’s to copy Terradise Garden Tour & Reg II meeting stories in Star last Fri. Kass says only have $25,000 in reserve (!!) so dividend probably on $25 a share ($35 last year). Grocery shopped at Krogers – picked up a chicken salad at Rax & ate on deck. Took a nap. Mowed upper lawn.
In to Marion for supper with mary at Turoffs – Sauerkraut & sausage. Took films to KMart & back down town to HH. Melnda Davies used slides made from marion Count 1979 History pix tat Al Tozer copied from pix brought in to Hemmerly;s. Good comments on Social History revealed in pix.
Richard Francoviglia called to tell me he has taken position with Texas Center for History based in Arlington Tex to develop program for SW states & Northern Mexico, lvg in July.
Trella Hemmerly – 1991-04-29
Monday, April 29, 1991
62-76 cloudy AM
MCHS 0! OAHSM 0! EHMA 0!
A day for ME
Gathered blooming flowers & spent morning learning botanical terminology so I could identify violet species, etc. Came up with v. papilonacea, eriocarpa, stricta & restrata – Not sure on white stemless that Opal Clutter gave me. Also reviewed diff in isopeyrum (5 sepals) & rue anemone (8 to 12 sepals) & trillium flexipes identification (white stames). 26 species spring wildflowers blooming – 16 species shrubs blooming.
Long walk thru woods, pulling garlic mustard from every place. Perfect morning. Dug couple of clumps of daffs from Hawthorne wildflower bed (by golden seal) & planted on hill above former fire pit.
Took a nap – wakened by Mary Jordan to make plans to go to Columbus Saturday to Bob & Pat’s Craft Show.
Got my income tax refund check for $2,069 another $1,500 applied to 1991 tax.
TV & Popcorn ‘To sum it up precisely, I lived today – the work has kept quite nicely…’ *
Kathi called from Hanksville, Utah. Had hike 6 miles to see petroglyphs in a canyon – cold! Windy, glad Mary & I didn’t go out to meet them. She got new sony camcorder.
*[Ray Romine Poem ‘Day Off’ written 07/10/1952]