Category: Trella Diaries

Thursday, November 8, 1990
[No entry]

Wednesday, November 7, 1990
31-47 cloudy
Spent morning in attic trying to find my Girl Scout uniform for meeting tonight with Senior Girl Scouts at library. No luck – Things piled on top of each other.
Spent afternoon sorting & cleaning up disks trying to find story I wrote about my Girl Scout Days – no luck, but ended up with 2 boxes blank tape after deleting duplicate files & consolidating.
Wrote check – bank statement came & have my balance back up to $4,000.

Tuesday, November 6, 1990
[No entry]

Monday, November 5, 1990
Voted for Voinovich/DeWine, Larry Adams, Nancy Sitterly, Lois Weber, Hobson, Adams. Sitterly and Weber lost & Fairground levy did too.
To Hutchman’s for dinner. Ed there with his 2 dimensional houses – True Home, Brown & DeWolfe houses – He’s good!
Works from his head on photos. Wants to market thru HH Gift Shop. $12.50 his cost to us.
Bill, Erma & I to Nature Club Meeting. Project Wild explained by Cathy Keen & David Massie, elementary teachers. After being trained they are provided with project books & can train other teachers. But only 6 people to hear their great presentations. Had owl pellets for us to dissect & chart to compare bones we revealed to the skeleton of a vole. Brought it home for Howard & John & Jed to see.

Sunday, November 4, 1990
Pancakes & bacon for b’fst. David & I walked in Ralph’s meadow hunting cow patties to make manure tea – no luck, but he laid the last section of old brick with Beldon Brick. Also put safety strap on driveway slope by mailbox. Got Ky Fried chicken, cole slaw & potato salad for lunch & we ate on patio. Seemed odd without Jed & Josh.
Collapsed when they left – my 75 yrs caught up with me – But revived by 7:30 to host MCHS Exec Comm to get our beefs about Jack on the table.

Saturday, November 3, 1990
On Registration Desk from 8:30 to 9:30 with Saarah Remgren – She told us this was her last day – off to home state of Maine since her husband has finished Graduate School.
Jack Telfer – Helen Kaufmann & Eula Rhodes down for sessions but didn’t see much of them. Ate lunch with Richard Francoviglia & others. Pat C, J.D. , Margaret & husband from Meigs Co. Jane Trucksis brought me a hanky from Belgium – I presented resolution honoring Jane & John Briley & Joan King who are retiring from Board.
Bought rag rug & Paulding Basket from the John Paulding group – Davis – Virginia, etc. Meeting over at 3:00 so went to Shopping Center on Sawmill Rd & shopped at Office America – Back to Hotel at 4:30 to wait for Haldeman’s to came after attending Ohio State game – They there at 6:00. Even David couldn’t find that Hotel. Ate at Shoney’s & I came home. They stayed on Coluimbus for Sarah’s Band competition at Columbus at 7:00. They got in about 1 but I was asleep.

Friday, November 2, 1990
Up at 7:00 to be at OHS by 9:00 – Chaired the Exhibit Workshop – Only 17 out of 41 registered showed up – think they went to Dublin Stouffer Hotel where the Annual Meeting was announced. Good presentation. To Hotel & checked it – Richard Francoviglia had 4 VIP rooms to use so assigned one to Barbara Shephard & me. Good to see old friends. Sat with Jane Trucksis for dinner – Elizabeth Sharp of Smithsonian gave insight on how the museum project into the future. Student Performing Arts groups gaver program.
I bid the minimum $200 for $800 printing from Jeanne Dorr’s husband’s company at the silent auction & got it – Auction raised $900 for OAHSM.

Thursday, November 1, 1990
43-72 B’ful Sunny
Finished dry stone wall on west side of driveway using left over stones. Transplanted Alaska daisies & creeping phlox into that bed.
Mowed upper lawn & below terrace & paths all thru the woods getting ready for official visit of Dean Frances Hazard, Dr. Tabor Allison & Peg Henderson – development officer of Ohio State University Marion.
They cam at 1:30 & we waqlked first to East end & then down to West end & around pond. Took about 45 minutes – then into house, but so warm in here we adjourned to beech deck to discuss OSUM accepting Terradise as part of its Nature Center. Dean Hazard enthusiastic about the site – “more than I expected” – Showed them letter from Guy Denny notifying me the council had awarded Terradise Ohio Nature Area* status. Peg will set up appointment next week with Trust Officesr. I should have deed & my will available. They will survey & match any endowment I contribute.
Pooped after they left. Enjoyed b’day cards & letters from Kathi & Bob & Dave & Dee.
David send repayment on loans as my b’day gift.

[*Ohio Natural Landmark]

Wednesday, October 31, 1990
31-68
Worked on relaying brick walk by greenhouse.
In at 5:00 to meet Mary at Rax. Then shopped at Big Bear – home.
Called David – He may come up to Shelby tomorrow & stop here while OSUM people are here.

Tuesday, October 30, 1990
Took Howard to Caledonia to bank & grocery. Mary out & got video working to copy. She knows how to push the right buttons. Started taking up brick by greenhouse that don’t match. Cut off bamboo in greenhouse beds & cleaned up area. Cleaned part of garage so guys can get in to service water softener.
All that wore me out – C allied Dean Hazard’s office & set up date for Thursday at 1:30 for visit to Terradise.
Back out & cleaned up leaves around steps & moved old bricks to pile by stone wall.
Mary brought birthday gift out from Kathi – cuddly gray zippered & hooded sweat shirt. With $20 check in pocket. Also sent Oneida pewter angel.