Jan. 11: Joanne, Lawrence
May 13, 1990: Ken & Joanne
Spring flowers seen:
- Forest carpet of blue, white, yellow violets
- Jack-in-the-pulpit
- Trilliums
- Foamflower (?)
- Wood Anemone
- Star Flower
- Canada Mayflower (?)
- Skunk Cabbage (No! Hellebore!)
- Solomon’s Seal
- Colt’s Foot – seed heads
- Waxy white 5-6 petaled (or sepals) flower near hemlock stump
- Leeks!
- 2 pair Mallards
- 2 spotted sandpipers
- Blue heron
- Canada Geese
- Woodduck
Something is wrong with the hemlock trees. Lower branches are bare. Gypsy moth coccoons are on trunks – now hatched out into – – – sized. Can’t see anything eating. All small hemlocks look like skeletons.
July 1, 1990: The following people hung out here this weekend, and were generally morally reprehensible:
- Erica Barbi
- Sean Blinn
- Adam Hauerwas
- Stacy Hirschberg
- Harry Eaton
- Erica Buhl
- Alexa Asher
- David Umpleby
- Jason Ford
The house still stands. We’ll do better next winter.
PS: Some of us were more reprehensible than others, but we’ll never confess.
July 29, 1990: Weekend of Baumunk’s first reunion – 180ish people. Visiting from Ithaca – after graduating from Earlham College (see Lucas and Adam Ford). Beautiful place! Thanks for the hospitality!
Jennifer Manwell
July 29, 1990: Adam and Barbara Baumunk Family Reunion held at Forksville Fairgrounds. Sat. evening campfire brought several campers (RV’s) and many local family members. Sunday’s program included a religious service, trip to old Homesteads, big dinner, and lots of talking and happy surprises at seeing “new” relatives, and seeing old relatives again after so many years had passed. It was a good “gran falloon”!
oldest: Amber Battin – 90
youngest: Jesse Painter – 7 weeks [Adam → Philip → Gleyna → Bernadine → Christine → Jesse (great, great, great grandchild)]
180+ people
Ken, Joanne, Nina, Lucas and Jennifer Manwell attended
Aug. 1 – 55°: Bright, crisp sunshiny day. Nina & Poppop tarred the chimney flashing yesterday. Pop tied a rope over the roof – around the steps – to hold while he walked on the roof. 84 yr. old good sense.
Hauled stones for the Wall Project. Continued to plant pines on the uplands (front side of house).
Damselflies very busy on lily pads.
Gypsy moths everywhere. The females are laying eggs – in buff-colored cases – on beech & cherry tree trunks. Most beech trees are dead. The hemlocks’ lower branches have been devestated by browsing deer in winter. How to get an attractive row of shrubbery in front of deck? Blackberry briars may have to do!
19 AUG 90: 3 days of fishing, socializing & Baumunk-lore sandwiched between two 7 hour drives. Nina has a promising future as a travel agent!
Caught, cleaned, cooked & consumed more bass, bluegill & pickerel than I could carry! My driving muscles, canoing muscles, casting muscles, and others ache wonderfully.
Thicothyroides mayfly hatch on the lake – like a snowstorm. Bats loved it but I am no lover of bats. I gave up fishing that evening when the bats kept bumping the rod & dive bombing my fly.
This place & its people are too good to be true. When can I come back?
Steve …
(doesn’t he write like a doctor ??!?)
19 Aug 1990: I came down from Ithaca (where I’m spending the summer) to see Caroline, Bill and Charlie before they took off back to New Mexico with the tent-trailer in tow. Then spent the weekend with Lucas and Steve (down from Boston), eating a lot of fish, hearing a lot of fish stories and arguing about PC (politically correct) people. Found the Annual Summer Fungus on a fungus tree (it had about 5 or 6 of them) across the lake – Rt. 495 has definitely disappeared from sight. Entertained the folks at the other house (including the Ladds) with some concertina & piano contra dance tunes – maybe there’s hope for us! Now am going back to Ithaca for one more week of paper-writing before going off to my first APSA conference in San Francisco Aug. 30. Did not carry any stones for the stone wall.
Nina
8 October, 1990: We’ve enjoyed warm breezes and sun, warm glowing fires and friendship amidst brilliant yellow orange and red foliage. Special things were conversations, good meals, picking Northern Spy apples and shaggy mane mushrooms, walking around the lake, bear stories, seeing the store and Ann and Bob’s house, Paul’s painting the autumn splendor, viewed from the deck. Altogether a wonderful two days.
Paul & Donna Wilhelm
~ Sept. 27: Adam from New Mexico nearly caught bear eating tube!! (well —)
Oct. 9, 1990: Closing up on a very warm weekend. Tagged all the nearby beeches to be cut – they are all dead – Beech Brush will always be here!
Haven’t spent much time here recently because Ken was hospitalized with a kidney operation in Phila and recuperated there. (Removed cancer on kidney, kidney, and one rib.) Successful & positive prognosis.
Bill, Caroline, & Charles – Aug.
Charles – 4 days here without parents. Favorite things: to be outdoors, slide on tipped-over canoes, bounce on inner tubes, swing and walk
New car – Toyota Camry
Expect player piano to be returned – rebuilt – by Thanksgiving.
Joanne