Year: 1978

Monday October 2nd 1978
Scott Greenwood killed in auto accident near Lancaster and Don and Virginia in for flowers. So sad. A drunk going wrong way on divided highway.
To OSUM at 7 for the committee chairman meeting to train for workshop on November 4th. About 33 there and practiced on each other. Home about 10 p.m.

Sunday October 1st 1978 cool high about 58 cloudy
Howard and I to back of Terradise for good soil. No pawpaws this year. Mary and mother out to get some of Rocky’s seedling daylilies to plant on his grave. Howard and I to Crums to pick red raspberries- got five and a half pounds in about an hour- 60 cents a pound. Paris and Helen stopped by to see about a new baby. Good visit. Showed newest slides. After they left, watched Centennial on TV lot of it filmed at Augusta, Kentucky near Chris Everhart’s home.

Saturday September 30th 1970 8/2 inch rain at Paradise
Overslept And no one told me I had a 10 a.m. appointment. The Mascaris very nice though. Another appointment right after and then left to St Mary’s for 1:30 appointment. Shop very busy so I did both Brown House receptions and then to Presby for Edna. Ready to load for Tonya wedding at Grace Baptist when Mike said alternator out on truck. So I ran last delivery. Then loaded wedding and Prospect delivery and set-up Church. Tonya there and helped unload. At 6 I headed for Prospect with funeral pieces, but didn’t get back to church until just as they pronounced man and wife. To shop where I found a corsage had not been delivered. Not at shop made it man picked up. Delivered it in Claridon. Home.

Friday September 29th 1978
interviewed by Carol St Francis- new editor of the Commentator. Stan Willis in with his photos of blizzard and Ken Frick in for photos for Commentator article. Also out here with girlfriend Esther Moler for photos in Greenhouse.
Connie’s Rick laid off so she would like to work at least 30 hours. Had to talk to Laura she’s so jealous of Connie. Tonya in to do her wedding flowers.
Picked up flowers on Route 95 that Mike mis-delivered. Went over delivery slips for his mistakes- on him about his dress.

Thursday September 28th 1978 repotted cactus
Kass called at noon saying Tonya’s grandmother had died. Memorial service only because of hepatitis. Made Marzetti and applesauce from our Macintosh tree, and pickled beets. Took Marzetti to Lance’s.
In to Buehlmann’s at 4 to go over with Ann and Ken what I want the workshop to accomplish. Did their history- very cooperative and willing. To shop and then to Jerry Weston’s southwest of moral. Talked on Marion County history and the new book.

Wednesday September 27th 1978
Designers finishing the 36 arrangements for Marion Power Shovel 25-year Club dinner when I got in at 10:30. Got things together for 3 dried arrangements and took off for hair appointment at 11:30. Cut, shampoo and set $12.75 by Molly who gave me $85 check for the weeks rent left in September for 665 Normandy. On to LK Restaurant for lunch and to do my little demonstration. 12 minutes allotted. Also got a plug in for the history. Back to shop at 2 and had three wedding appointments. To Turoff’s for dinner with the gang and then to OSUM for program meeting of MCHS. Snappy meeting and Forest Loudenslager gave his farm slides- four men now farm 1700 Acres which formerly was 8 Farms.

Tuesday September 26th 1978
David and I in two cars to Christ Hospital by 7:15 so he could see Karen before she went for delivery. At 9:10 they brought Jedediah Thaddeus Meister Haldeman to the window for me to see. Born at 8:48. Later I scrubbed and could go to the nursery window where he had “expanded” considerably- all 8 pounds of him. Put him in isolation to guard against infection of fluid in lungs. Karen still in recovery. David and I had lunch at Campobello’s Italian and then to Meisters. Picked up Sarah and Josh and took them to Mount Airy to run around. Back to hospital at 4 and Karen in her room- sedated some and some pain. I left at 5:30 and home about 8:30. Called Mary.

Monday September 25th 1978
Worked at shop all day and left for Cincinnati at 6. Got gas and ate at Ponderosa and left Marion at 6:30. Dark when I got to David and used flashlight to go in the back basement entrance. He came from hospital about 9:45. Karen went in at 4:30 and kids went to my sisters. Slept in Sarah’s bed.

Sunday September 24th 1978
Dave, Laura, Janice, Chris, Gail, Mary and I to FTD “Designing For Profit” Workshop in Columbus. Too gorgeous a day to be inside. But it’s good for the employees to hear what I tell them from someone else. Stopped at the Forum in Worthington for supper. Home at 7. Mother called to tell me the “Now and Then” picture in the Star was of the garage daddy owned with Ray Barnthouse on North Main Street.

Saturday September 23rd 1978 49 degrees to 71 degrees
2 wedding appointments. Serviced three weddings. Attended two auctions and took proof read MCHS yearbook to BBB.
Bought three chairs at $9 each 4 chairs rush seats at $5 each. Fairbanks scale for $25. 2 Iron lamp brackets for $7. 2 wash boards for $3. Sugar bucket for $2. Globe and the atlas for $6 and Magnus chord organ for $12. Ironing board for $4. Letter from Kathy- we both wrote to each other Thursday. Howard had been to Wilda’s and saved pumpkin pie she gave him for me.