Peg Ostrander
Marlene Dvorak
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What the account says about Marlene
41 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
Jan 12
Hawkstone Drive (home)
Feb 3
No school yesterday and none today. The snow began Tuesday afternoon, and by We…
…dnesday morning the drift against the garage door reached the handle. R. measured 17 inches on the picnic table with the folding rule and wrote it on the calendar. He cleared our drive and Marlene's with the snowblower and came in with ice in his eyebrows.
Eight of us were at Lorraine's on Tuesday night for "Major P…
2017
Aug 28
Ireland tomorrow
Sep 23
Leaving Tuesday for seventeen days.
Gus, to Ellen's on Sunday:
- carprofen, 34 tablets counted out (two a day, with food), plus four spare
- his bed, the ramp, the blue bowl
- 15 lb of his food
- Dr. Aylward's number, and a note saying Ellen may decide anything that needs deciding
House: Marlene has the key and the mail. Furnace set to 60. Water heater…
Dec 5
Hawkstone Readers, 2017. We were eleven until August and are ten now: Bonnie Sa…
…ther has moved to Texas.
Jan. 3 - "The Underground Railroad" - Nan's
Feb. 7 - "News of the World" - Connie's
March 7 - "Hillbilly Elegy" - Lorraine's
April 4 - "Homegoing" - Ruth's
May 2 - "Evicted" - mine
June 6 - "The Radium Girls" - Dee's, in the garden
August 1 - "Anything Is Possible" - Marlene's
Sept. 5 - "Kil…
Dec 29
Gulf Shores, Alabama: February 3 to 24, three weeks.
The place: a condominium belonging to Dottie Faulk of Birmingham. Egret Pointe, unit 407, fourth floor, gulf side. Two bedrooms, a balcony over the beach. Parking space 31, under the building. She takes dogs under 80 lb for a fee.
Dottie does everything by email and wants the balance two weeks before we come.
The dr…
2018
Feb 11
Gulf Shores, Alabama. We have rented a condominium on the beach for three weeks…
…, and I am sitting on a balcony in February in my shirtsleeves. It is 64 degrees. At home, per Marlene, it is 9.
R. walks the beach every morning to the fishing pier and inspects the pilings. He has made a friend there, a retired pipefitter from Michigan.
Birds, the first week, without leaving the beach: brown peli…
Nov 22
Thanksgiving here: Ellen's four, and Marlene. Hannah is ten and asked at the ta…
…ble, straight out, when we are getting another dog. Ellen said, "Hannah." R. said, "We're not," and passed the potatoes. I do not agree with R. about the dog.
Afterward I found him in the den with Owen, showing him how the dovetails on the box were cut. Owen is seven and asked whether Gus was really in there. R. sai…
Dec 4
Hawkstone Readers, 2018.
Jan. 2 - "Pachinko" - Connie's
Feb. 6 - "Manhattan Beach" - Marlene's
March 6 - "Exit West" - Jean's
April 3 - "The Great Alone" - Ruth's
May 1 - "Less" - Sylvia's
June 5 - "Circe" - Dee's
August 7 - "Warlight" - Lorraine's
Sept. 4 - "An American Marriage" - mine
Oct. 2 - "Beartown" - Helen's
Nov. 6 - "Educated" - Nan…
2019
Sep 10
R. is in the hospital. Arbor Bluff, the cardiac floor, room 4117. He is asleep,…
…or pretending, and I have come home for the night because the nurse told me to and because of the dog.
About half past two this afternoon he was raking under the honey locust. I was in the kitchen with the list for Thursday's sorting. I looked out, and the rake was lying on the grass and he was sitting on the back s…
Sep 21
R. drove today for the first time, to Odana Hollow Hardware and back, for a box…
…of screws he did not need. I rode along. He adjusted the mirrors as if someone else had had the truck.
I baked. Sigrid had been sulking in the refrigerator for two weeks and came back in one feeding. He had one slice, weighed; he is doing this the way he did the diabetes, as a specification to be met. Two loaves, on…
Dec 3
Hawkstone Readers, 2019. Sylvia Ihlenfeld moved to Minneapolis in June; Ellie B…
…reunig joined in April.
Jan. 8 - "Where the Crawdads Sing" - Marlene's
Feb. 5 - "Becoming" - Connie's
March 5 - "The Overstory" - Lorraine's
April 2 - "The Library Book" - Ruth's
May 7 - "Unsheltered" - mine
June 4 - "Normal People" - Dee's
August 6 - "Say Nothing" - Nan's
Sept. 3 - "City of Girls" - Ellie's
Oct. 1…
2020
Mar 22
The rules, per Ellen, who gave them to us on the telephone. Posted on the refri…
…gerator. For as long as it takes.
1. Neither of us goes inside a store. Not Fenner's, not the hardware.
2. Groceries: Ellen orders them from Naperville and Fenner's delivers to the garage on Fridays. I send her the list Wednesday night.
3. What comes in a box sits in the garage a day. What must be cold is wiped and…
Apr 19
Sixty-five. The grandchildren sang on the laptop, five faces in three boxes, ha…
…lf a beat apart. Marlene left a lemon cake on the step, rang the bell, and ran. R. gave me binoculars, good ones. He said, "For looking at things from a distance."
I planted the peas.
May 2
Going north tomorrow, to stay. What goes, in two vehicles:
The truck (Ray, the dog): the Bernina in its case, wedged with quilts; the cutting mat; two tubs of fabric; Ray's hand tools and the small lathe; Birdie's crate; the chest freezer's contents in three coolers.
The CR-V (me): Sigrid; 40 lb of flour and 10 of sugar; the pills, ninety days of everything for both of us, i…
Aug 22
House alarm, Hawkstone Drive
Panel inside the back door; 45 seconds to enter it. To arm when leaving, the same code and AWAY. If the monitoring people telephone, the spoken password is Sigrid. Marlene has her own code, 9120.
Nov 7
No lutefisk dinner this year. I made lefse here, six dozen, with R. ricing the…
…potatoes at the kitchen table in an apron, with the radio on.
We drove them round this afternoon in packages of six and left them on porches: Marlene, Connie, Lorraine, the Nygaards, Pastor Kristin. I rang and went back to the car. Harlan Nygaard came out onto his step in his slippers and held the package up over hi…
Nov 8
No lutefisk dinner this year. Lefse made at home yesterday instead: six dozen.
Left on porches, in packages of six:
Marlene - Connie - Lorraine and Hal - Harlan and Betty Nygaard - Pastor Kristin - Dee - Ruth - Helen - Inez Rude - LaVonne Thorson - the Fosdals
Dec 1
Hawkstone Readers, 2020. Nine of us, three meetings in a room and the rest on a…
…screen.
Jan. 7 - "Olive, Again" - Nan's
Feb. 4 - "The Giver of Stars" - Connie's
March 3 - "The Dearly Beloved" - Marlene's
April - nothing.
May 5 - "Writers & Lovers" - by video
June 2 - "The Glass Hotel" - by video
August 4 - "The Vanishing Half" - by video
Sept. 1 - "Hamnet" - by video
Oct. 6 - "Deacon King Kong"…
Dec 12
Lykke Bakery - Christmas order, and a kringle for Marlene
2021
Jul 30
For Ray, August 1 to 21, while I am in Portland. Taped to the refrigerator; a c…
…opy here.
1. Meals: there are 14 suppers in the chest freezer, labelled with the day. The other seven nights are the Nordic Table (once), Marlene's (she has asked for Thursdays), and your own devices.
2. Pills: the box is filled for three weeks. Refills are not due until September.
3. Birdie: 1 1/2 cups at 7 and at…
Sep 19
The garden shed behind the garage: a new padlock. Ray cut the old one off this…
…morning with the grinder. The new one has no key. Four brass wheels on the bottom. The combination is 0530. His birthday, May 30; he chose it.
Marlene knows it, for the hose.
Dec 7
Hawkstone Readers, 2021. By video until June.
Jan. 5 - "The Midnight Library"
Feb. 2 - "A Long Petal of the Sea"
March 2 - "Piranesi" (four of us had no idea what happened and the other five would not say)
April 6 - "The Four Winds"
May 4 - "Klara and the Sun"
June 1 - "Braiding Sweetgrass" - Dee's garden
August 3 - "The Personal Librarian" - Nan's
Sept. 7 - "Anx…
2022
Jan 12
We have it. R. tested on Saturday, two days after coffee hour, and I on Tuesday…
…, after three days of sleeping in Kate's room with the door shut.
He has the cough and the aches and is on the antiviral, five days, by Dr. Raghavan's order, because of the heart and the sugar; one of his other pills is stopped while he takes it. I have a throat like a rasp and a fever that arrives at four in the af…
Jan 16
COVID, both of us. The dates.
Ray:
- Thursday, Jan. 6: coffee hour at church.
- Saturday, Jan. 8: cough, aches. Positive on the home test at 10 a.m.
- Dr. Raghavan's nurse the same day: the antiviral (Paxlovid), five days, twice a day. His atorvastatin is STOPPED for those five days and started again the day after the last dose.
- Fever never over…
Oct 30
RAY'S KNEE: getting the house and ourselves ready. Surgery is Tuesday, November…
…8; check in at 5:45 in the morning. From the class on the 18th, the booklet, and Julia on the telephone.
THE HOUSE
- He sleeps in our own bed; the stairs are allowed. One step at a time, good leg up first, new leg down first. I sleep in Kate's old room for the first weeks.
- Rugs: every loose one is rolled up and in…
Dec 6
Hawkstone Readers, 2022.
Jan. 4 - "The Sentence" - Ellie's
Feb. 1 - "Oh William!" - Connie's
March 1 - "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek" - Marlene's
April 5 - "Small Things Like These" - Ruth's
May 3 - "French Braid" - mine
June 7 - "Sea of Tranquility" - Dee's
August 2 - "Lessons in Chemistry" - Nan's
Sept. 6 - "Horse" - Lorraine's (I wa…
2023
Nov 26
R. went out on Friday morning, by himself, and came back with a television for…
…the family room that is sixty-five inches across. He says it is on account of his eyes.
Thanksgiving was Ellen's four and Marlene. Hannah is fifteen and has given up meat, as of last month, on principle. She explained the principle, well, and ate three helpings of everything else. R. asked whether fish counted. She…
Dec 5
Hawkstone Readers, 2023. Eight of us from April to September, nine before and a…
…fter.
Jan. 3 - "Demon Copperhead" - Marlene's
Feb. 7 - "Foster" - Connie's (Lorraine's last meeting)
March 7 - "Trust" - Ellie's
April 4 - "The Marriage Portrait" - Nan's
May 2 - "84, Charing Cross Road" - mine. Lorraine's favourite, ten days after she died.
June 6 - "Hello Beautiful" - Dee's
August 1 - "I Have Some…
Dec 10
Christmas 2023, in Portland, six days. We fly the 22nd. Everything for Napervil…
…le and Denver is posted by the 12th; what goes to Portland must fit two suitcases.
Sizes:
- Hannah (15): women's small. She has stopped eating meat as of October; no beef sticks in that box. A set of good coloured pencils, 72, and paper.
- Owen (12 1/2): men's small. Skates 8.
- Lucas (10): 12. A fillet knife, with…
2025
Jan 8
Hawkstone Readers, the first half of 2025, as settled last night at Marlene's.
Feb. 4 - "Time of the Child" - Nan's. I shall be in Alabama.
March 4 - "The Frozen River" - Connie's
April 1 - "Three Days in June" - Ruth's
May 6 - "Stone Yard Devotional" - MINE
June 3 - "The Correspondent" - Dee's, in the garden
The fall to be chosen in June.
For May: the folding chairs back from church.
Sep 28
Portugal, October 9 to 19. Lists.
Before we go:
- Close the cabin EARLY, October 4 and 5. Boats to Pike Bay on the 3rd; I have telephoned Rod. Earl blows the lines on the 6th.
- Ray's cardiology visit is moved from the 14th to the 28th.
- My mammogram is the 21st.
- Birdie to Ellen's on the 8th, on our way to O'Hare, with her food measured out.
- Marl…
Dec 3
Hawkstone Readers, 2025, as actually read. Nine of us.
Jan. 7 - "Orbital" - Marlene's
Feb. 4 - "Time of the Child" - Nan's (I was in Alabama)
March 4 - "The Frozen River" - Connie's
April 1 - "Three Days in June" - Ruth's
May 6 - "Stone Yard Devotional" - mine
June 3 - "The Correspondent" - Dee's
August 5 - "Wild Dark Shore" - Ellie's
Sept. 2 - "So Far Gone" - Margie's
Oc…
Dec 29
Gulf Shores tomorrow
2026
Mar 8
The RAV4 would not start yesterday, after the three weeks we were in Alabama wi…
…th the truck. The small 12-volt battery, not the hybrid one. New battery at Gary's, $214.30, at about 41,900 miles.
Next winter: have Marlene start it and let it run in the driveway for half an hour once a week, switched fully on, in "ready."
Jun 4
Garage keypad, Hawkstone Drive
Then ENTER. June 27, the day we bought the house. Marlene has it, and the three children. Changed in October 2023.
Oct 3
Hawkstone Readers, 2026 so far.
Jan. 6 - "What We Can Know" - Connie's
Feb. 3 - "Flesh" - Marlene's (I was in Alabama)
March 3 - "The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny" - Ellie's (670 pages)
April 7 - "My Ántonia" - Ruth's (my suggestion)
May 5 - "The Emperor of Gladness" - Margie's
June 2 - "Raising Hare" - Dee's
August 4 - "The Antidote" - Nan's
Sept.…
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Facts
| First name | Marlene |
|---|---|
| Last name | Dvorak |
| Gender | Female |
| Comments | Next door, 1850. Has a house key. |
Phones
- number: '6085550105' variant: Home
Addresses
- variant: Home street_address_1: 1850 Hawkstone Drive city: Madison state: Wisconsin postal_code: '53711'
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Peg OstranderMarlene Dvorak is friend of Peg Ostrander
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q118 If the pipes froze while we were away, would the insurance pay? q099 I want the same inventory for the Madison house. Everything of value, please.