NEW LISTING IN GAHANNA!

JUST LISTED!

~4816 HONEYSUCKLE BLVD~

NATURE LOVER’S PARADISE!  ~1 acre of heavily wooded, gently sloped, ravine lot with 2 meandering streams, near a park and bike trail.  Hardwood Foyer.  Vaulted Family Room with floor to ceiling brick fireplace and skylights.  10 x 15 Florida Room overlooks the scenic rear yard.  Master Suite with hardwood floors, walk-in closet, and private Bath.  Finished Basement with Den and Recreation areas.  Many recent updates.  Near Easton.  Must see!  3 Bedrooms and 2.5 Baths!  Over 2,100 SF! Westerville City Schools!  Only $174,900!   

Call DeLena today!

NEW LISTING IN COLUMBUS!

JUST LISTED!

~4815 Bourke Rd~

FOUR LEVEL SPLIT WITH OPEN FLOOR PLAN!   

Great Room with wood burning fireplace, hardwood floors throughout, and large fenced back yard with shed. New roof and windows ~2009, new gutters ~2010, and new furnace ~2011. Estate being sold "As Is".  3 BR’s & 2 full Baths. Nearly 1,400 SF! Columbus City Schools. Only $99,900! Call DeLena Today!

NEW LISTING in DELAWARE!

JUST LISTED!

~ 2438 Troy Rd ~

GREAT LOCATION TO BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME! 9+ acres surrounded by woods. Adjacent to Oakhaven Golf Course. Stream located on lot. Long, private driveway. Electric, gas, water and sewer available. Delaware Schools. Only $150,000! Call DeLena Today!

NEW LISTING in REYNOLDSBURG!

JUST LISTED!

~105 Dusky Willow Drive~

BEAUTIFUL TWO-STORY CONDO…

… large Great Room with gas log fireplace,  Kitchen opens to Great Room, Master Suite with private Master Bath, first floor Laundry,  neutral decor throughout, Basement has rough-in for a full Bathroom, close to shopping and parks. 3 BR’s & 2.5 Baths. Over 1,700 SF! Southwest Licking Schools. Only $99,900! Call DeLena Today!

NEW LISTING in COLUMBUS!

JUST LISTED!

~ 2372 Lindale Rd ~

ATTENTION INVESTORS OR HOME BUYERS!   Cute three bedroom home. Laundry on fist floor with stackable washer and dryer.  Fenced yard. Nearly 1,000 SF. 3 BR and 1 Bath! Only $22,000! Columbus schools! Call DeLena Today!

Thanksgiving Day After Dinner...

Thanksgiving Day After Dinner...

Will you be looking to get yourself and your family out of the house after dinner on Thanksgiving?  Most places will be closed and no events will be kicking off until after Thanksgiving but we did find a couple of ideas....

Fantasy of Lights at Alum Creek State Park Campground 

2911 S. Old State Rd., Delaware, Ohio 43015

The Fantasy of Lights is a drive thru light show that will be open on Thanksgiving Day for you to enjoy and your family to enjoy.  After checking out the lights you can visit Santa's House right down the street at 3190 South Old State Rd. Delaware, OH 43015 where free cookies and hot chocolate will be offered.

Guernsey County Courthouse Holiday Music & Light Show

Wheeling Ave, downtown Cambridge, Ohio

The Guernsey County Courthouse Holiday Music & Light Show is a light show synchronized with holiday music.  There are four shows that last about 8 to 12 minutes apiece.  The beautiful courthouse building will boast thousands of lights that will pulsate to the music.  Afterwards take a stroll down Wheeling Ave from 6th to 11th streets to have a look at all of the holiday decor including the Dickens Victorian Village Displays and educate yourself by reading the plaques at the base of each of the 80 Dickens scenes. 


 
Have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!!!

Funny Facts on Thanksgiving

We're sure you've heard stories on the history of Thanksgiving a million times, and will probably hear even more this week. Well then, allow us to enlighten you with some strange and funny facts about the famous holiday that you might not have heard before.

•  The original Thanksgiving included a menu featuring swans, seal, lobster, and deer. Cakes and pies were not a part of the meal as the pilgrim’s sugar supply had dwindled during the year and they possessed no ovens. There were also no forks at the first Thanksgiving; they were not popularized until the 18^th century.

• Squanto, the Pawtuxet Indian responsible for teaching the pilgrims how to farm, fish, and avoid poisonous plants was fluent in English after being captured by an English sea captain, sold into slavery, and escaping to London before returning to the new world on an exploratory trip.

•  The first state to officially adopt the holiday was New York in 1817.

• Sarah Joseph Hale, the woman responsible for the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday before Abraham Lincoln heeded her request in 1863.

•   The official date set by Lincoln for the Thanksgiving holiday was the last Thursday in November, until Franklin D. Roosevelt moved it up a week in 1939 to spur spending for the Christmas holiday during the height of the Depression. 

• The first Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in 1924, and used real animals borrowed from Central Park Zoo. The Goodyear Company would make the first helium balloon for the parade in 1927, officially replacing the animals. Balloon handlers used to release the balloons at the end of the parade with the promise of rewards for whoever found them once they touched down.  Today the parade attracts 2 to 3 million spectators along the parade route each year.

• Thanksgiving is celebrated annually by the United States, Canada, Liberia, Puerto Rico, and Norfolk Island. Canadians even refer to our Thanksgiving as “Yanksgiving” in order to differentiate them (theirs is held the second Monday in October.)

• The best way to test if your cranberries are ripe? Bounce them on the ground; if they bounce higher than 4 inches, they’re ready to be made into sauce. Cranberries are only one of three fruits that are originally native to the United States.

•  Frozen T.V. dinners were created in 1953 in an effort to get rid of 260 tons of leftover turkey from Thanksgiving that manufacturers still had not sold.

•  In 2007, Americans consumed 690 million pounds of turkey for Thanksgiving according to the National Turkey Association. That is roughly equal to the weight of the entire population of Singapore.

• The tradition of watching football on Thanksgiving began in 1934, after the creation of the Detroit Lions, who were formerly the Portsmouth Spartans. To generate interest and attention for the new team, their owner set up a game for Thanksgiving Day against the defending world champs, the Chicago Bears. The tradition stuck from there.  

• Green bean casserole, a staple at most Thanksgiving meals is only 57 years old. Campbell’s Soup created the recipe in 1955 in an effort to generate sales for their cream of mushroom soup.

• The night before Thanksgiving is the single biggest sales day at bars across the United States, beating out St. Patrick’s Day for the title. The theory is that thousands of people descend on their old home towns where they meet up with old friends and head to the bars to catch up and celebrate. This time also marks the release of most brewing companies Christmas and Holiday ales.  

•  Minnesota is the biggest turkey producing state in the country, followed by North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Virginia, and Indiana. These six states account for 2 in 3 turkeys sold during Thanksgiving.

• Turkeys pardoned by the President of the United States annually end up at Disneyland’s Big Thunder Ranch in California, where they live out the rest of their natural lives. This year’s turkeys hail from Rockingham County, Virginia and go by “Cobbler” and “Gobbler"