Celina (Mercer County) Ohio's 1st Community, Real Estate, and Technology Blog

I welcome you to the newest and one of the most exciting endeavors of mine. The intention is for all Mercer County residents, business owners, webbies and visitors to enjoy it, learn from it, share it, and USE it to your benefit.

This is a blog where just about anything can be discussed, seen, and shared…recipes, computer technology, the World Wide Web/Internet, finances, real estate, manufacturing, homes, business, finance, schools, area activities and events, or even the weather!

In the future, you will find posts and/or advertising added to the site, that will include information about our area's real estate market, finance, economics, and more. You can find listings for home sales and photos posted for your viewing. You can comment on most postings. Please keep it clean! Postings will be monitored. Inappropriate language, topics, and comments will not be published.

It takes quite a bit of time to get a blog up and running, and it takes time to keep it interesting. This is just the beginning of an opportunity for our community to share comments, ideas, thoughts and information with each other. I will frequently attempt to add new content. If there is something you want or need to know, and you don't find it here first, I will research it for you!

Feel free to bookmark this blog, come back and visit often, see what's new and being shared, and please…tell your friends and family it's here for them, also.

If you care to post about a new subject or issue, advertise, have photos to share, or just wish to reply to a previous post, go right ahead! This is for YOU!

Enjoy!

Summer Solstice

We all know that days will be getting shorter and cooler...there will be fewer community activities for enjoying the outdoors. Actually, though, it seems that every new school year brings the warmest of days! Students return home reeking of that stale, sweaty odor of school. Heck! Dayton even canceled a few days of classes last week, due to the extreme heat, since beginning their new year-round school program.

This past Tuesday evening, I was traveling back into town, returning from a real estate company seminar, which I might add, was a most inspiring and humorous session. As I drove westward into Celina, I noticed an awesome sunset in the horizon, just beyond the west bank of Grand Lake St. Marys. It was, by far, one of the largest, brightest, red-hot [orange] visions of the Sun I had ever visualized. And, I have witnessed many sunsets in my life…here and from the Gulf Coasts of Florida. It was so beautiful. However, it was setting quite a bit further south than those we're used to seeing in the midst of a full-blown summer.

As I basked in the beauty of the moment, it dawned on me that it was only 8:30 in the evening. This made me sad, as I am NOT one who favors autumn the most. Most all of my friends tell me that fall is their favorite season. Mine is springtime, when sweet tender flowers and fresh tiny leaves are forming in the ground and on the trees. Grass amazingly starts sprouting full and rich, and deeply green. The air seems fresh, clean, and warm…an obvious change from the bitterly cold frozen air of winter. Fall just reminds me that winter is right around the corner, and events and activities of the summer of 2007 will soon be a memory...a part of Celina's history.

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments.