8-20-13

9:00am

This morning I already have the crock pot going with supper.

I added some deer tenderloins,

1/4 cup apple cider vinegar, 3 tbs. worcestershire sauce,

water to cover meat half way,

then sprinkled the meat with a packet

of meatloaf seasoning and a packet of sloppy joe seasoning.

I also added in baby carrots and a small onion.

Later on I'll boil up some potatoes on the stove.

I don't think potatoes get done enough

in the crock so I do them separately.

I think today I'll do a history lesson about

a home on Westerville Rd.

I love learning about old buildings around Ohio

especially ones near where we lived.

When visiting a cemetery in Westerville on

Dempsey Rd. we found the name Jonathan Noble

on a tombstone.  It was from the 1800's.

There is also a street off Westerville Rd.

just South of 161 named Jonathan Noble

so I looked up the history of him.

This home sits just South of 161 and is on the East side

of Westerville Rd.  It is a wooden rusty brown color.

Jonathan Noble moved there in 1820.

Underneath the exterior and interior of the house is an

actual log cabin.  The home was slated for demolition

and had sat empty for awhile.  Vandals made their

way into the house and put holes in the walls.

That's when the owner discovered that

the home was actually a log cabin covered up

and decided to restore it instead.

Jonathan Noble was one of the first settlers in this area.

He was born Feb. 22, 1776 and died in 1832.

He was a veteran of the War of 1812

and migrated to Blendon Twp. from Connecticut.

He had 2 wives and 12 children and is buried

in Central Cemetery on Dempsey Rd.

He was born the same year the 

Declaration of Independence was signed.

Noble covered up his log cabin so it would

look like his neighbor's homes.

In those days living in a log cabin was too "primitive"

and when a family was financially able they would

either tear down the log cabins and make a home

of brick or cover over the logs with wood siding.

This cabin was covered with Poplar siding around

1830 and 1840.  Then in the 1940's another

outer layer of wood siding was added.

This is the only log cabin remaining in Franklin county.

An addition was added to the back of the house later on.

The main house had 4 rooms total, 2 upstairs and 2 downstairs.

A huge fireplace and hearth used as a pioneer kitchen

is on the North wall of the house.

The living area also had a fireplace and was on the

South side of the home.

The two upstairs rooms were bedrooms.

The current owner uses the downstairs 

as his office for Reiner Realty.

The 4 rooms in the new addition (not made of logs) are used as

the main living quarters of the current owners.

The Nobles had a 250 acre farm that spanned 

from Alum Creek to Cleveland Ave. through

what is now known as Minerva Park and Strawberry Farms.

There still is an original well and outhouse

on the home's property.

22 graves that sat 1/3rd mile from 161 and route 3

were removed and placed in Central Cemetery in Oct. 1902.

At one time Westerville Rd. used to run on the

East side of the home.  It now runs on the West side.

The original front door faced East and later

on another door was cut on the West side.

When I was younger I always walked the dirt trails

back to Alum Creek from our home to go fishing.

I used to sit upon a wall of rocks and had always

wondered why those rocks were there.

I had been told a farmer many many years ago

had built a dam across Alum Creek.

Now I wonder if that farmer was Jonathan Noble

because it wouldn't have been that far from his home.

Today when I revisit that old fishing hole of mine

I see that the wall is slowly deteriorating away

and looks nothing like it did years ago.

It extended out into the water further

and looked like steps on one side that

I would sit and fish on.  Now it's overgrown

with trees and weeds.

6:00pm

Hubby's running late tonight with a couple

of on call emergency calls.

Looks like me and the kids are eating supper without him.

I got a recorded message from Columbus City Schools

saying they are short handed with bus drivers

to expect delays until the end of September

while employees go through driver's training.

Elementary schools could run about a

half hour behind each day til then.

What I would like to know is what the schools

have been doing during the Summer

that they just now realized they don't

have enough bus drivers?!

10:00pm

Since hubby was running behind this evening

I took my son over to Walgreens to get

his 7th grade booster shot.

Hubby was home by the time I got home.

But not for long since we got paged out

for a fire.  Oh boy gee, here we go.

Full moon is upon us.

Before getting to his work hubby had called

another coworker who lives on the property

and left them a voice mail to see if they could

go check the situation out.

Well this person never called back.

So we get there and there are firetrucks everywhere

including the hook and ladder.

Nothing major but it could have been if it hadn't

of been for a neighbor who called the fire department

because of hearing a smoke detector going off

and smelling something burning.

It was Asian residents who left something cooking

on the stove.  They were not home obviously

and the firemen had to break in the door.

So we had to stay to fix and secure it.

It was a newer resident and we found her

phone number and called to tell her what had happened.

I don't know if she just didn't get the seriousness 

of what had happened or how bad it could

have gotten but this person just had the 

attitude like, oh well.  

"oh, I must of forgot to turn the stove off, hee hee,

sorry for your inconvenience."

Uh, ya could have burnt down the whole building!

And that steel door the fireman damaged

will cost a LOT for the resident to replace!!

Good thing they require renters insurance

on all their residents.

As for the coworker who didn't return our call

soon after calling him around 8pm

well he decided to call us back at 2:45AM!!!

What an idiot.  I had a hard time falling back to sleep

after that thinking it was another page to go out on.

I'm half asleep while hubby was talking to him

on the phone and I was singing,

"I'm gonna kick somebody's ass!" in the background

for waking me up!!

Calling at that hour of the morning was ridiculous!