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I did a poll over a year ago on Mexican restaurants in Central Ohio on the original Columbus Best Blog (now called Discover Columbus) when I found a blog where someone who’d relocated to Columbus from Southern California wrote:

“1) The Mexican food here SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS. Awful.”

The here being Columbus. In response I posted My 10 Favorite Columbus Mexican Restaurants.

The problem with the poll on Discover Columbus is I can’t open the results anymore. Almost 50% of the results are “other” and I can’t open it… It is a popular entry on that blog even a year later so I’m trying to recover the account that the poll is on…

I eat a lot of Mexican food. I am an addict. I try to order it more healthy because I know all the melted cheese and sour cream is not healthy and not necessarily authentic. Some on the list here are very authentic.  Others aren’t.   Vote for your favorites.  I have trouble choosing just one personally.

It’s a year later, restaurants come and go in Central Ohio… so I’ve done a new poll for this blog with an “other” in case I’ve missed your favorite… anyone visiting from Phoenix, Tucson, Southern California or elsewhere sit on your hands this is a poll about Mexican Restaurants in Central Ohio. Anyone who owns or operates a Mexican Restaurant in Central Ohio… don’t vote please. Gracias.

December 2, 2007 from 6:00 to 8:00 there is a Chanukah event at the Inniswood Metro Gardens in Westerville, called “Luminaries in the Garden: Chanukah” on the Metro Parks calendar.

Inniswood Metro Gardens
940 S. Hempstead Road
Westerville, OH 43081

I believe Chanukah starts December 4, 2007 at sundown.  The event at Inniswood Gardens  is described on the Metro Parks schedule:

 ”Enjoy the gardens by candlelight and warm up at the Innis House while listening to the Koleinu Choir.”

I tried finding a website for more info about the Koleinu Choir but did not find anything (there are mentions of past performances on various sites) but a This Week Newspapers about a December 16 event at the Worthington Mall says :

“KOLEINU, Hebrew for “Our Voice,” was founded in 1992 by Cantor Jack Chomsky of Congregation Tifereth Israel and Cantor Vicki Axe, then of Temple Israel. The chorus is co-directed by Chomsky and Gail Rose. ”

 

Santa Claus hung out in front of the Worthington Inn all afternoon Sunday, November 25, 2007 meeting kids. However when the Worthington Police delivered Santa to the Worthington Green for the Tree Lighting he seemed disoriented, saying something about being in Westerville…

Westerville, Worthington, I guess when you only visit a couple of times each year, you could get the two Central Ohio communities confused.  He’ll have his reindeer to help him out on December 24 when he comes back to deliver the goods.

It was raining pretty good by the time Santa got to the Worthington Green for the tree lighting at 5:30. A few Christmas carols were sung by candle light. There were lots of umbrellas as you can see of the photo of the tree on the south- east quadrant of the Worthington Green.

We got there late afternoon, walked up and down the street, took lots of photos that did not turn out, got coffee at the Mean Bean and listened to e Christmas carols in the rain.

I went on two nature hikes in the Metro Parks this weekend. Columbus Metro Park Hikes The first Friday I forgot to take a camera… it was a moonlight hike…in Sharon Woods Metro Park… how much picture taking could there have been? There were great shots of the full moon at Sharon Woods Metro Park on Friday evening. We saw a great horned owl too thanks to volunteers who knew what we were looking for. I saw it fly away… what a wing span. Would have made a great photo… oh well we did not bring a camera.

We took the camera to a moonlight walk at Battelle Darby Park on Saturday evening… we were ready. In the ranger station prior to the hike we talked about what animals we could see, deer, flying squirrels, owls, coyotes. We looked at the taxidermied (stuffed… spell check is unsure about the spelling of the word I am grasping for animals who have had taxidermy done to ‘em) animals at the ranger station.

The natuaralist said there is at least one badger living in the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park now… and beavers, coyotes, river otters, muskrats, foxes, flying squirrels, owls, etc.

Saturday November 24, 2007 was the full moon and the Metro Parks called it the full Beaver Moon, the early settlers and the Native Americans needed to set their traps for beaver. Unfortunately it was a cloudy day so we never saw the full moon… Or any animals… the naturalist, Gary did owl calls, to no avail. Some thought they saw a deer as we crossed one of the roads in the park, but it was a sign… It was dark.

It was a four mile hike. Very hilly but no moon, no animals.

Returning to the ranger station we took pictures of some of the Ohio wildlife including a beaver, a badger, a river otter, ducks, a fox, a coyote and a skunk… other stuffed animals in the Ranger Station included minks, a muskrat, and owls, including the great horned owl.

I could not identify the muskrat I guessed ground hog… but I guessed the badger… The stuffed skunk at the ranger station is brownish red so I guessed it was a badger too… I think skunks are black not brown. When in doubt guess badger…

A Link to the Slideshow of stuffed “wild life”

One more try to embed… then I give up..

From WOSU Radio Newsroom - 820 AM, Mayor Michael Coleman of Columbus is attending a “Foreclosure Forum” in Detroit Michigan… this week.

The Detroit Mayor says the “Foreclosure Forum” is not about legislation.

The WOSU article says:

“One consumer group says cities can’t afford to wait for action in Washington or at the state level. Tuesday’s meeting will be closed to the news media, but the mayors plan to release a report on the economic ripple effect of foreclosures on major metropolitan areas.”

The Detroit Mayor likened the effect of foreclosure on the local economy to a tsunami
Ohio is among the states with the highest rates of foreclosures in the US. The state of Michigan leads the nation in foreclosures.

In totally unrelated news except it is about foreclosures, Trulia.com is adding RealtyTracs feed of foreclosures to their site, Trulia.com according to the Trulia Blog.  Trulia.com is a real estate search site.

Our Real Living HER listings are on Trulia.com including foreclosures listed with the brokerage.  I always wonder if there are listings duplicated on Trulia.com because of the way they take feeds.  I used to read the RealtyTrac updates and quit because of duplication of the same listings.