Agritainment...

I am scared of cornfields after dark...but it looks like you do these amazing mazes under the October sun...

The sky is bright clear blue the corn stalks are golden brown....

Leeds Pumpkin Farm St. Rte. 36 Ostrander Ohio  www.leedsfarm.com
 
Circle S Farms. 9015 London Groveport Rd Grove City, OH Phone: (614) 878-7980 www.circlesfarm.com

The MAiZe at Little Darby Creek. 8657 Axe Handle Rd. Milford Center, OH 43045 Phone: (937) 604-1609 www.mazeandberries.com  has a photo of the maze!

Dills Greenhouse  5800 Rager Rd, Groveport OH. (614) 836-3700

In Iowa they take this corn maze thing real serious....  Christopher Smith's blog has a photo of an aMazing Iowa maze.

c. 2006 Columbus Best Blog

OK  I looked I can not find a picture of a tick.  This is a lady bug, obviously.   Why are lady bugs so cute and benign? And ticks are so ugly, scarey and strike fear in my heart?    I found  two more today in my hair... 36 hours and two showers later.   Of course I've  used my  regular  shampoo  rather than  the 'Flea and Tick'  variety.  

I showed rural property and got covered with ticks.  I thought I had picked all of them off.

Acarology or Everything you always wanted to know about ticks 

Copyright 2006 Columbus Best Blog and Maureen McCabe

Pretend this black dot (bullet)  has legs......

• I showed a property with acreage about 7:00 on Monday night...  we walked the paths and got covered with ticks.  I was wearing a long light colored skirt so they showed real well and were easy to pick off.  

   

Driving back I was sure a tick  was boring into my back.  A strip search uncovered three inside the skirt but nothing on my navy blue t-shirt and nothing in / on  my back.  A shower for that creepy crawly feeling helped a lot. 

Unfortunately two were found this AM.  One on my elbow... and another at the sink where the the strip search was conducted.  My car got  sprayed this AM before I got  in and the can of Deep Woods Off is in the car.  I hate bug spray, mosquitos pretty much ignore me.  Ticks seem attracted. 

Did you know OSU has a world renowned acarology program?  It is "an international center for research on ticks" (and mites.)  I guess Acari are ticks, mites, spiders.  Arachnaphobia? 

"With a teaching and research collection of more than 150,000 determined specimens and more than 1,000,000 undetermined specimens of ticks and mites, our acarology program is world renowned and functions as an international center for research on ticks and mites.  The broad representation of specimens makes it the finest teaching collection of Acari in the world.  We identify specimens submitted by state and federal agencies, researchers and the general public."

From OSU - removal tips!  All I really need to know about ticks for my line of work and being a dog owner. #5 is icky: 

"Keep the tick alive for a month in case symptoms of a tick-borne disease develop. Place it in a labeled (date, patient), sealed bag or vial with a lightly moistened paper towel then store at refrigerator temperature"

Did you know the 12th International Congress of Acarology, to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from Monday 21 until Saturday 26 August 2006.

• I'm using the bullet above and this one to the left to signify a tick...Googling Tick I found some great scarey tick images on an LA website....  Ohio ticks or those I saw last night and the ticks I saw last time I took my pooch for a walk at High Banks Metro Park were just like those pictured on the LA site.   Dots with legs.   

Ooooh.... sometime I'll share my real estate flea story.... scratch, scratch, scratch....

Copyright 2006 Columbus Best Blog and Maureen McCabe

Sunday's Dispatch said according to the Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission 47 acres of  Central Ohio farmland becomes residential subdvisions and shopping centers each day.  The Columbus Dispatch wrote:

"Attempts to break sprawl’s stranglehold on central Ohio are failing."

Driving around Westerville, Lewis Center the Polaris area I kept obsessing "47 acres each day?" ... does 47 acres include developments like Westar?   I went home and reread the article and am still not sure.

"The region is losing 47 acres of farmland a day to subdivisions and shopping centers, theMid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission says." according to the Columbus Dispatch.

Related Article's

Columbus Dispatch-  Belt-busting sprawl

Columbus Dispatch MORPC's Plan for Growth

Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission is an association of Central Ohio governments.

www.morpc.org  I was uable to get on the MORPC website Sunday. 

Copyright 2006 Columbus Best Blog and Maureen McCabe