Year: 1989

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-08-12

Saturday, August 12, 1989
Got us ready for company and made fruit salad and brownies to serve. Finished second tray of slides to show but only showed first one- Anchorage and Denali Park.
Walt and Olgua brought Mary and arrived at 6:30 instead of 7:30 so Olgua had time to describe Dorothy Kehrwecker Kenyon’s operations in every detail. The Moshers came and Bill and Erma Hutchman brought Mary Jordan. Martha Neville also down. All seemed to enjoy.
Kathi called saying she was going out to photograph slides for me and what did I need.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-08-07

Monday, August 7, 1989
High 68! Alaska weather
Worked outdoors all day. Ray Foertsch here to finish staining decks and furniture. Had to go to Wollohan’s to get Olympic Redwood stain- the Sage didn’t look right over Redwood furniture. Misting rain so moved furniture into garage to stain. Stopped by time I got back with stain- $16 a gallon.
I cut down bamboo along greenhouse. Taller than greenhouse. Took Ray to Caledonia Dairy Queen so he could listen to sound in my car. Says it sounds like brake pads. Got bacon cheeseburgers, brought them home, opened chicken soup for lunch. Then started trimming forsythia bushes at lower driveway, corkscrew willow, bank above burning pit, dead branches from blue spruce, and half the weeping crab by patio. And that’s only the beginning. This place is getting to be a jungle.
Mary Ellen Kerr, Willis Nye’s neighbors called to tell me Wanda went to Riverside Hospital in Columbus Friday for heart surgery. Madge Guthrey Marshall called on answering machine. When I called back she had asked Carroll Neidhart to do her program Saturday. She and Sanford are going to New York for a week. After supper weeded more and moved greenhouse plants so table can be used on patio!

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Trella Hemmerly – 1989-08-06

Sunday, August 6, 1989
High 88
Took Prairie signs to Claridon Prairie. Some things not out as much as usual this time of year but lots of bloom. Went into Marion to get Prairie Brochures and stopped for gas and found my wallet did not have any money in it or a checkbook! The counterman said I had an honest face. I didn’t take my purse with money because it had Howard’s $10,000 check in it. Couldn’t think of anyone to borrow it from who wouldn’t be in church and then remembered Kass (Catholic goes to 4:30 Saturday mass) so borrowed $20 from her, paid for the gas, home for quick lunch back to Prairie. Bill Hutchman and Kensel Clutter each had group of about 10 and I took Beulah White and Martha Neville in my car. Charlie Evers and Telfers there so they came over to Terradise to sign the 110 thank you letters. When I gave them Howard’s gift to Purchase Fund for Heritage Hall they were flabbergasted. Spent about 2 hours planning for MCHS. Back to Marion with— [incomplete]