Do we usually have Robins in Central Ohio in December?  Wintertime in Columbus, Ohio has a gorgeous picture of a Robin at the Ohio Statehouse in December.

I noticed the dead Robins on the street the week before I read about them in the Columbus Dispatch in an article by Dean Narciso.   The day I noticed them was  February 10, 2007..  I did not see them in the areas mentioned in the Columbus Dispatch article, Muirfield or near the intersection of Frantz Road and Longbranch.  I noticed them in streets near the northwest Columbus neighborhoods of Riverside Green, Olentangy Highlands and in the Linworth area of  Worthington.  I saw them dead in the streets and came home thinking they had come back early.

HUNGRY, DYING ROBINS
Missed flight south leaves birds in cold
Warm January kept many of them in Ohio
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Dean Narciso
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

A Robin in Winter - Columbus Ohio the photos in RobKin's slideshow are all pre Christmas it looks like.  Including a beautiful Winter photo of  Robin in a tree with berries but no leaves.  A winter tree.

Narciso's article says the Robins never left Central Ohio and suggested " urging residents to provide suet, diced apple or other fruit and fresh water — away from traffic."

Further North the town of Hinkely Ohio has another Harbinger of Spring... the buzzard.  And today March 15 is the day they come back to Hinkley. This is the 50th Anniversary of the town of Hinkley celebrating the buzzrds returning on the 15th of March.   Clevelander Carole Cohen saw buzzards in nearby Independence a day or so ago... but today's the day they come back to Hinkley.

Robin's are much better looking than buzzards.

Spring......

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

Midwest Haunters Convention

Dates: July 14-15-16, 2006
Columbus, Ohio

"A weekend event planned for Haunted Attraction Producers, Actors, and Home Haunters. Our goal is to provide you with educational seminars and workshops with experienced presenters as well as a place to socialize with others in the industry during our fun social activities. "

as featured In HauntedHouseMagazine.com

A list of haunted spots in Ohio - Haunted Places - reputedly haunted houses, roads, bends, golf tournaments etc.  Golf tournamanents?  Dublin the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield is haunted by rain?  I think that's a stretch unless the golf course  is haunted by the spirit of a Central Ohio weatherman who was killed ....at the tournament.  Said weatherman's ghost  haunts the fairways with his golf umbrella which was struck by lightening....  which is silly as I just made that up.

This one I will buy... 

 "Columbus - Nationwide Arena - Site of the Ohio State Pen - built where the old pen used to be when the pen was there many people sighted & heard things that were not meant to be seen or heard examples:

 1. old cafeteria used to be place where hangings occurred before it was cafeteria, even though there were broken windows to let in traffic noise upon entering the building was dead silent

2. the electro shock therapy room has noises and is extremely cold now it seems as the nationwide arena area is cursed ....

goes on sensationalistic and morbid. 

The list of ghosts missed the Thurber House.  The Thurber House  is haunted isn't it?  They aren't that literary though if they didn't work O. Henry being a prisoner at the Ohio State Pen, into Natonwide Arena's haunting story. Even if O. Henry did not die there he could come back to haunt it.

The Night the Ghosts Got In  From the Thurber House Website:

"It all began with the night the Ohio Lunatic Asylum burned on November 17, 1868. The Asylum covered several blocks of downtown Columbus, including the area where Thurber House now stands. Seven people died in the fire, and their spirits are said to be many of our ghosts."

"The night of James Thurber's ghostly experience was exactly 47 years after the Ohio Lunatic Asylum burned. According to his story"The Night the Ghost Got In," Thurber was in the upstairs bathroom washing his face when he heard the heavy footsteps of a man pacing around the dining table downstairs. He thought a burglar had broken in and tiptoed to his brother William's room to wake him. Thurber and his brother approached the head of the stairs just as the footsteps ceased. Suddenly, they heard the footsteps launch up the steps two at a time, coming straight for them! When they glanced down, there was nobody there, though they heard the footsteps rapidly approaching. Thurber's brother ran to his bedroom, and Thurber ducked into the bathroom and slammed the door at the moment the invisible figure would have reached him."

Another RT Blogger is writing about ghosts this week...

Ghosts in the Twin Cities... or a ghost anyway and  More Ghosts in St. Paul

When you sell your home ...we do not have a place on our state disclosure form for ghosts.  I believe a  buyer can bring a ghost buster to inspect per the terms of the local purchase contract though.   

  Copyright 2006 Columbus Best Blog and Maureen McCabe

If you get the Sunday Columbus Dispatch you saw the 'Butter Cow" beat the Midway as the Best State Fair Attraction. Midway was third, 'Mullets' were the number two attraction at the State Fair. Go figure.  

Dispatch writer, Mark Ellis wrote the article about 'HomeTown Favorites, Readers sound off on what's good about region'  with results of the Columbus Dispatch, second annual 'Best of Cental Ohio Survey.'

People, Places, Leisure, Things,  Food.... The Columbus Dispatch Weekender will continue the survey with respect to best food and restaurant in early July. 

Among best Places in the June 25, 2006 Columbus Dipatch article: 

Village

1. German

2. Victorian

3. Muirfield

A German Village blitzkrieg

Copyright 2006 Columbus Best Blog and Maureen McCabe