Category: Trella Diaries

Saturday, October 27, 1990
In the LHR Motel at 8:00 to meet Bill Nolan for bfst. In Marion yesterday for Ohio Cattleman’s Assoc. & stayed over to have bfst with me & came out to Terradise for about an hour. So much to catch up on – haven’t seen him for a year.
Then to Mary’s to go to Ada to visit Gail Zimmerman – she was 95 on Oct 13. Video taped her family memories handed down to her by her grandmother Caroline Felty Zimmerman – niece of our great grandfather John Conrad Hemmerly Sr.
Ate lunch at Ohio Northern Cafeteria in midst of Homecoming crowd.
Gail said take anything I wanted from her garden as her gardening days were over. Madge in Green Acres Nursing Home – had a heart attack recently – Home thru Hardin County Amish Country past several places Aunt Lily Fetter lived. Got all plants planted.

Friday, October 26, 1990
32-45 Impatiens frozen
Brick 10:00 – 4:00 6 hrs.
Family group records
Worked until 4:00 on Brick files index & report forms. Creating family group reports.
2 Mary’s picked me up at 4:15 – Stopped at Mileys Carpet on way to Cardington. Can’t lay porch carpet on cement until April. Probably cost $150 – Lasagne for supper at Al’s Restaurant.
Mary didn’t want to go to play Little House of Horros so watched TV & worked on sorting out stacks of papers into MCHS, Huber, OAHSM & personal. Ended up with waste basket full of discards.

Thursday, October 25, 1990
38-43 windy chil factor 30
Brick files 6 hrs
Called David about 8:00 to have him add “0” to 999 by modem. Says Josh calls from France every night – homesick I guess. Worked on files until noon. Mary out to help unload TV – put it in Rec Room. Then she hooked up other TV through the VCR so I can tune it through VCR.
Ruth Mosher out about 1:00 for a “Users Group” meeting – She has WS4 so I gave her my WS5.5 disks to use Maillist since she doesn’t have a data base program. She commented that she knows of no other “Mother-Son” relationship like David & I have – working so closely – learning from him. She’s worried about Chuck’s inability to concentrate. Took a walk around the house.
Finished taking geraniums etc into greenhouse. Covered fish tub geraniums with pool liner.
Kathi called saying earthquake in Reno was noticeable but no damage. James “Buster” Douglas no longer heavy-weight champion. 3rd round knockout Evander Holy – stupid.

Wednesday, October 24, 1990
36-60 cloudy
Perused new book on Ohio History 1765-1813 – Tecumseh era – factual acct by Bill Gibson.
Worked on brick data base. In to HH at 1:00 for my “volunteer duty” for Wyandot Museum. Fred White in to see the Ray Romine cartoon that he donated. I couldn’t find it & called John Hickson & he had never seen it (Later Dick West found it on John’s desk). Eula protesting Jack’s continued expenditures. Ruth Mosher concerned about Camp Perry people who want to publish history of camp but all they’ve done is collect material.
Mary picked my TV for me (repair shop closes at noon) & brought it to HH to lead into my car. To dinner with her at Perkins. Home at 5 & took walk in woods under golden maples, sycamores & beech.

Tuesday, October 23, 1990
45-55 Sunny windy
MCHS 2 hrs
Sorted original & copies of brick orders & got numbering up to date. 1,048 sold to date.
In to Cr. Claran at 11:00 for teeth cleaning. Took originals of brick orders back to Heritage Hall – Letter from Glenn Patton ordering brick for his dad E.E. Patton. – Also notification from Ohio Preservation Office that Marion P.O. has been accepted to the National Register of Historic Places.
Home by 1:00 – Finished moving pile of brick by pergola (from former brick walk) to by rock wall next to lower driveway – Loaded them in car to move. Then cleaned car with shop vac of all the dirt & stones accumulated in it.
In at 6 to meet Mary for dinner at Harding Lodge. Then to Hospital for Garden Club of Marion meeting. Nice talk with Cliff Mitchell. Tracy ___ landscape designer gave excellent talk on perennials – Lots of ornamental grasses.
Home & popped Tiny Tender popcorn that I got at Walnut Creek – It spoils me for any other popcorn

Monday, October 22, 1990
MCHS 9 hrs.
Worked on Standing Rules – editing mostly – Finally got labels to print out – Not in Fox Central – using DBaseII commands. Did Nov Dec & Jan expirations for Margaret Cottrell.
In to Heritage Hall at 3:30 to copy Standing Rules for the Organization Meetings of the Function Groups. About 20 Function & committee chairmen there – also distributed “priorities” to each group to assign to committees.
Hal Boncutter took to the Legal Funtion with enthusiasm. I worked with hom on lining up his duties – assembling legal documents – overseeing contracts.
Supper at home – watched TV

Sunday, October 21, 1990
– Gorgeous Sunny Day
Worked on Standing rules until 2:30. Then picked up Mary & cruised Marion Co. & Wyandot Co. rds for prairie seeds.

Saturday, October 20, 1990
34-51
Didn’t frost flowers but had to scrape windshield
Standing Rules 9 hrs
Picked Mary up at 8:15 & took her to WMRN to be on Madges The Way We Were program to talk about Covered Bridges.
She handled it very well – She knows the subject thoroughly. I gave some program info on MCHS & OAHSM & touted the Geo. W. King Book.
Stopped by Claridon Prairie on way home & collected big & little blue stem, cord & rye grass, liatris, tall sunflower, prairie dock, gray-headed coneflower, New Jersey Tea, bush clover, etc. Planted all of it in exposed gravelly aread across road. Also planted silene regia in garden prairie area.
Worked rest of day on finishing Standing Rules to have ready for Function Committee Monday PM.

Friday, October 19, 1990
Tours HH 8:00 – 11:30 3 ½ hrs.
In to HH at 7:45 – Social Committee functioning. Introduced Jack to the 60 Marion City School teachers who chose the Museum Tour for their In Service Day. Led 2 groups on tour. Finished getting Newsletters ready to mail & enlisted Dick West to take them to P.O. Picked up Mary J & met Mary H & Geneva Brewer at Terradise. Mary drove us for a Fall Color tour to Eastern Ohio. Lunch at Apple Valley. To Sandyville to pick up candy for Hemmerly’s – 5 cases $143 – Then to Walnut Creen& got Tiny Tender popcorn – my favorite. Home about 5:00. To bed at 7:00 – relaxed from memories of glorious color.

Thursday, October 18, 1990
12 ½ hrs – Hallmarks
Up at 8:00 & at the computer & finally got MCHS labels printed out using Fox Central. Called David & told him I would use the committees & activities WordStar file & not bother to change it in Ventura.
In to HH at 12:30 to copy 500 Newsletters on copier. Used volunteers to fold & Mary also came in to help. Mary &* I finished up about 6 (others left) – went to Wendy’s for chili & back to HH at 7:00 to lead Kappa tour. Gary & Denise Iams asked me to do it. Dorothy Strawser Klehm spoke on Marion Schools since 1828 – was my 5th grade teacher & there were 49 in the class. Home at 9:30 exhausted. Called Norm to tell him we needed $25 more at P.O. to cover mailing of Newsletters – and he objected! & I spent the whole afternoon running Hallmarks to save us $75-