Happy Anniversary to Columbus Best Blog

Columbus Best Blog started with an awkward  little entry on  August 27, 2005. The blog is not exactly what I expected it to be.  There is more real estate on Columbus Best Blog than I thought there would be... as the blog evolved in the past year.

My first comment on my first entry came from Frances Flynn Thorsen  of the  RealtyGram Blogger.  Fran my Fairy Blog Mother and writer of more blogs than you can shake a magic wand at...... Fran graciously left a nice comment on my first entry.   Thanks  Fran.

I bet I wrote Fran to say "I'm a blogger!" 

Thanks to RealTown Blogs too. 

The group of RT bloggers who finally started blogging after the first of the year made it much easier to blog... I was so lonely on RealTown Blogs last fall.  Was blogging a mass new years resolution?  I am so glad Bonnie, Gene, Chris, Leanne, Greg, Sandy, Lynne, Susan, Mary etc. etc. etc. etc.  started blogging.   Bouncing ideas off of a group really helps.    

I really hated blogging last September.... it was not fun. I think I started to enjoy blogging in late October. 

Help yourself to something to eat and drink, virtually of course. 

HER Sr.  that is.  Harley E. Rouda Sr.

Business First Columbus wrote:

"Firm's anniversary puts canner Rouda in a jam"

"The founder of HER Realtors is celebrating the real estate brokerage's 50th anniversary with jam - lots and lots of jam.

Harley E. Rouda Sr., a canner for the past 20 years, said he began planning last summer for an extra 100 jars of his annual production of cherry, raspberry, strawberry and peach jams to give to the sellers of houses in Upper Arlington, the brokerage's hometown, throughout 2006.

Son Harley E. Rouda Jr., CEO of the expanded Real Living Inc. brokerage network, pushed dad into giving the jars to buyers as well, adding another 100 jars to the production schedule."

The fruit for the jam is from Ohio orchards according to the Columbus Business First Article.  It's reputed to be some of the best home-made jam in Central Ohio.

Harley E. Rouda Sr founder of HER Realtors, which is now HER  Real Living

Copyright 2006 Columbus Best Blog and Maureen McCabe

I love Trivia.  I loved Trivial Pursuit. 

I am crushed that I did not know the answer to the third trivia question of 2006.  HER Real Living's 50th Anniversary is being celebrated with an internal trivia contest.  Works for me!

Question:

What is the name of the company Harley E. Rouda, Sr. worked for as a real estate salesman before he started Harley E. Rouda & Company?

Answer:

Ralph R. Greer Co.

I probably have heard or read that somewhere but "Ralph R. Greer Co." did not stick with me. 

I thought about saying "Donahue" or "Buy Ohio"  since I have heard of those companies from the past.   I believe they were the 70's and 80's  rather than the 1950's.   All before my time.

Next week....

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Happy Golden Anniversary to HER Real Living, the Best real estate company in Central Ohio!  Congratulations to our founder Harley E. Rouda Sr. who has always been a leader.   The history of the business is posted on my  MaureenMcCabe.com site.   It's on my HER News page... That is so BB.  Before Blogging!

Copyright © 2006 Maureen McCabe