Maureen McCabe - Central Ohio real estate

We finally ate at Hawa Russia last Thurday. We had tried a bunch of times previously but they do a "night club" on Saturday nights or were doing a "night club" the two Saturday nights we tried to eat at Hawa Russia. Hawa Russia closes early on Sunday.

Hawa Russia is at 2680 E. Dublin Granville Road in north east Columbus.

I had been craving the borscht and the Hawa Russia salad since reading a Columbus food blog's review of Hawa Russia last summer. ColumbusFoodie

I have never had Russian food before. I read somewhere that the food at Hawa Russia is Russian and Ukrainian.

I loved the little lump served with the soup, a pirozhki, I should not have eaten it because I do not eat wheat. Officially I don't eat wheat but I did. It had meat in it. I did not identify it as meat. I argued that it was not meat. Rereading the Columbus Foodie review I conceded that was meat.

I did not need an entree I was really stuffed after the borscht and the Hawa Russia salad. My dinner companion ordered the beet salad (pictured here) and the lentil soup... we took a photo of the lentil soup but it's not as photogenic as borscht. His choices of soup and salad were really, really too filling before trying to eat an entree. He ordered the meat filled "raviolis" or dumplings that are pictured in the Columbus Foodie post about Hawa Russia. She calls them "Siberian Pelmeni" hmmm we just kept calling them "ravioli.' Seasonal? In mid November the cook did NOT put parsley or whatever the green herb shows in the June photo. Russian raviolis are NOT particularly photogenic especially without a green garnish.

I had the cabbage roll. It was OK... Maybe it was me. Maybe I am more of Polish or German cabbage roll eater than a Russian cabbage roll eater.... I tried a cabbage roll at a Turkish restaurant too. I took about half of the Hawa Russia cabbage roll home. I ordered too much food.

The service was different... we had our soup, salad and entrees delivered in stages but more overlapping, if that makes sense. Not the usual US restaurant service but it was kind of "homey."

There were four tables occupied when we visited Hawa Russia.

I'd go back. I will have to go back. I am in love with the Hawa Russia salad. It was gone before I could take a photo of it.

It's not as early as last year... or maybe I did not notice it until today. Sunny 95 has Christmas music this morning.

Last year it started earlier? In a poll last year, the smattering who read or cared thought November 3 was NOT too early for Christmas music on the radio. Or the majority of the smattering who read or cared voted that it was not too early for Christmas music.

Discover Columbus 2007 Christmas Music Poll

It's November 15. That's not early, really. Thanksgiving is a couple of weeks away. Driving by Polaris last night we wondered if Santa was there yet...

I won't even bother with a poll this year. If November 3 wasn't too early in 2007 why would November 15 be too early in 2008.

Sunny 95 online gives you the choice of "holiday" music or their regular fare. Their site says they are "Columbus Continuous Christmas Music Station."

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There was a Veteran's Day Parade last Friday in downtown Columbus.

Monday would have been the three day holiday kind of day off of work for some people. Was this a three day weekend for some? Were government offices in downtown Columbus closed Monday? Were banks closed Monday? Was there no mail service Monday? I really did not remember by Wednesday night.

Tuesday was the real day. Tuesday November 11 was Veteran's Day 2008.

Today is Trash Day in the Navy area. Trash day rotates for all five "colered areas" in the City of Columbus when there is a holiday. There was some confusion last night.. there was some effort to call via the number that stuck in my head:

614-675-NAVY

That number goes to a fax!

I tried using a borrowed IPhone to Google for the City of Columbus trash pick up site... I love the IPhone, I covet the IPhone but I don't have one and I have a hard time finding my way around on an IPhone. When I couldn't find the info I was seeking easily on the borrowed IPhone, I gave up, I thought... I'll hop on the computer to check it out LATER.. too lazy to go get my phone sleeping in my purse in the next room.

I should have, I could have gone to my OLD website but I did not. My garbage blogging goes waaaaay back. I first blogged about the Columbus Refuse Division back in February 2007 on Columbus Best Blog which later came to be called Discover Columbus...

I forgot about Trash Day. The squeaking, or is it creaking? ... the noise of the "arm" made me remember too late.. The collecition vehicles have an arm that picks up the trash receptacles. It is TRASH Day today in the NAVY area today...

From About US on the City of Columbus website:

"Trash collection for the City of Columbus is operated by the Department of Public Service, Division of Refuse Collection. The City collects trash from more than 325,000 households using trucks with mechanical arms to pickup and empty collection containers. This makes trash collection safer for collectors, faster for residents and more cost effective for the City."

The phone number is 614-645-NAVY. Saved on MY phone now. The current recording says:

"Please NOTE Veterans Day, November 11 is NOT an observed holiday for the City of Columbus"

The next holiday that affects trash pick up is Thanksgiving... excuse me while I walk across the street to retrieve the trash receptacle ... it was too late when I realized I was hearing that creaking arm....

Previously on DiscoverColumbusOH.com Columbus has color coded trash collection

A book, 'Clintonville and Beechwold' will be published in 2009 by Clintonville resident Shirley Hyatt. The book will be published by Arcadia Press in their Images of America series in January 2009. Mrs. Hyatt has a blog too. The blog Clintonville History is not the same content as the book. The blog, Clintonville History has content she couldn't fit into the book.

Arcadia Publishing describes Clintonville and Beechwold...

"Clintonville, a Columbus neighborhood situated four miles north of the Ohio Statehouse, began as a sleepy crossroads halfway between Columbus and Worthington. Beechwold, three more miles north, was a farm, then a zoo. Today they are bedroom communities but no longer sleepy. The beauty of their grassy knolls, springs, river, and wooded ravines inspired the creation of one of Ohio’s best amusement parks, which in turn spurred housing and businesses. The City of Columbus marched right alongside this progress, annexing residential areas almost as soon as they were developed. This new compilation tells, through images and words, the story of Clintonville and Beechwold as they evolved from sleepy hamlets to the communities they are today."

Hyatt's blog has many old photos. I first read Clintonville History on my cell phone and was frustrated at reading the descriptions and not being able to see all the old photos. There are pictures of buildings and people from long ago.

Just a few of the things I learned about Clintonville and Beechwold history in my one afternoon reading Clintonville History (the blog) include:

People in the Highland Gardens area (and elsewhere in Clintonville) kept chickens... (Hyatt shows a photo of Chicken's on Tulane Avenue) "The answer to today’s hard economic times"

There were Adena Indian mounds in Clintonville in the Overbrook area which were leveled for housing development.

There are four Lustron Homes in Clintonville. The one Hyatt identifies is the one I know on Weisheimer. Perhaps I need to buy the book to find out where the other three Lustron homes are....

Photo Credit Clintonville Welcome Sign from SleepingBear on Flikcr. Licensed with a Creative Commons License

Today is the Citywide House Hop for Real Living HER. The city in "Citywide" being the city of Columbus... or the greater Columbus area. Or Central Ohio in general actually.  

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