Year: 1989

Thursday, May 4, 1989
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Wednesday, May 3, 1989
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Tuesday, May 2, 1989
Sunny am showers PM High 57
Royce here to help remove storm windows and wash windows. I washed curtains and we got most of them back up.
At 3:00 went into title office to transfer title on ‘85 Mercury Lynx to Dave. Had to walk to Marion Bank in rain to get $140 in cash to pay sales tax.Then took bathroom rug to laundromat to wash while I went to Odd Lots where Deputy Registrar is located to change license plates. learned that since Dave still owns the Honda plates couldn’t be transferred- had to buy new ones- $14. Then the post office on Barks Road to mail them. decided against Express next day as it would cost $12 and sent them Priority First Class for $2. Stopped at Hemmerly’s to cash check for ordinary expenses. Got chili and frosty at Wendy’s- dropped film off at Kmart. Got gas at Bonded $1.04 a gallon since the Alaska oil spill.

Charlton Myers called for advice on who to hire for genealogical research. I referred him to Maxine Marshall and Pat Winn. Also wants Iris for Greene Cemetery which he has maintained for 30 years. Also is getting his historical collections together and told me that he has told Ruth to call Trella when he dies and tell her to come get it all for MCHS.

Monday, May 1, 1989
crow – Move-in day at Heritage Hall from cottage. Overcast temperature 47
Took car to Inskeep to fix oil leak before lunch and travel series with Mary, Jessie Baker, her daughter Martha and friend. But when we went back for it they had only put dye in system. Drive it a few days so the leak can be traced and bring it back Thursday- sounds like a doctor!
Queen Elizabeth II cruise to New Zealand and Australia by Doug Jones made me wish I were wealthy.
The car load came out to Terradise for a little walk around the garden. Not so breathtaking without sun.

Friday, June 30, 1989
Lupines, anemone, Bog Rosemary
200 K speed –
9:40 leaving Paxton Lodge.
9:43 views of the other end of Alaska Range. Snow in pockets. Graceful paved road swinging around hills. 9:53 climbing top Arctic tundra 20 kinds wildflowers. View 40 potholes
10:30 turn around 212- view of Galkona Glacier.
10:45 view of pipeline.
10:48 back to Paxton- Glen Allen 744 265
10:52 Paxton Lake
11:16 Far below us vast area forest dotted with lakes. Hogan Hill. mile 213 Pond lilies stop. 11:27
11:41 Poplar Creek miniature drunken Forest. Galkana River dominates this drive.
11:50 crossing Gulkana River. Ahtna Corporation lands- $10 fishing permits available.
Noon view of Wrangell Peaks
12:02 Glen Allen ice cream truck stop
12:15 Glen Allen-Glenn Highway 187 mets anchor junk yards around cabins. Flowers along road. Red flags at sides warn if a frost ridges.
12:40 Tazlina Lake from Tazlina Glacier
12:47 On Pond 2 swans (Tazlina tourist trap lodge.) Tazlina Glacier Caribou Crossing in Chugach mountains- (gas $1.39 a gallon)
1:20 Eureka Summit
1:21 Gunsight Mountain elevation 6,141. Lunch- Sheep Mountain Lodge
2:35 hog pics [illegible]
2:45 View of Matanuska Glacier to north. Twisty road-driving along glacier & morains
2:54 Mile 104 – pix Matanuska Glacier at mile 102. Can drive to glacier face. Mile 94 – 6 min. Stopped – why? Truck lost bulldozer.
3:30 Raining during descent – has been sunny all day until now-
3:30 King Mt.
3:48 rain stopped. Sun out King River. A66 milepost.
4:10 Matanuska Valley & Palmer – A-41 Taking old Glenn Highway at Artic Ave.
4:12 Crossingh of Matan River
4:17 View of Pioneer Peak & Knick Glacier.
4:21 Glenn Highway- vast plains – marsh – Ekutt on flats. Wild Iris fields.
4:467 Crossing Eagle River – Anchorage 13 miles. Traffic lanes full both ways coming in on Rt. 1
5:15 Home
30699-29677 = 1,022 +180 in park – 1202 miles total.
Letter from Willis [Nye?] Nap – pizza.

Sunday, April 30, 1989
Sunny and 67 I got sunburned. Gorgeous day.
Mowed with big mower until 12:00 when guests started arriving. Running water into renovated pool. nut it’s still leaking. Mary out to oversee register and pass out brochures listing trees, shrubs & wildflowers. Over 200 registered- Madge Guthery here with friend Stafford Marshall from New York City who has just discovered trees. The Seckles visited with Howard.

Saturday, April 29, 1989
1 inch rain this week.
Region 2 Vermillion. Lucy, Betty Gorsuch, Eleanor Dieffenbach, Mary H, Trella.

Mary and her carload picked me up at 7:30. stopped in Bucyrus for Betty Gorsuch at Great Lakes Historical Museum at 9:25. 62 registered 85 last year felt $20 registration kept some away, but program was great interpreting your artifacts by professionals from George Washington University and Sturbridge Village. ate lunch at Shea Francois and talk to Giant Diane Chestnut about the way meeting was planned- she did much of it. reception at Ted Wakefield home a real treat on a point of Lake Erie and Vermilion river.
Home about 7:00. Tidied the garden some. Had call on answering machine from Ken Hemmerly asking for a reunion mailing list.

Friday, April 28, 1989
House Wren, White throated sparrow,

Thursday, April 27, 1989
leaves bursting from husk on Beech tree.

Wednesday, April 26, 1989
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