One year ago.

One year ago today, Genifer picked up her new Audi Q3…

We’ve driven her Q3 all around town, out to the Outer Banks… (twice!), over to Indianapolis and up to Michigan. We’ve put just over 11,000 miles on it in the first yeat. It’s been a wonderful vehicle that’s fun to drive and easy to maintain.
She picked a good one!

Thanks for the memories, Timehop. ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿฆ•1โƒฃโค๏ธ

It’s nice to be home.

Our first day back home and of course, it was a cold and rainy morning…

Welcome back to Ohio and good morning from Northside…

We ran over to the grocery because we didn’t have any food in our house…

It’s the middle of November and there were Christmas display all over the store. I chose to ignore all that nonsense. I could ignore this giant lion…

Kroger had the panda bear and the train back on the shelf again today…

I forgot to look at the balloons. I bet there were some great Thanskgiving balloons. Hopefully, I’ll remember to look if we go to the grocery store next weekend.

After the grocery, we stopped at Mad Llama for Sunday morning coffee…

One of my favorite sayings is, Comparison is the thief of joy. On our way home, we had a discussion about which was better: the Espresso Shake from Sunset Ice Cream in Duck OR the Caramel Java Whip from Mad Llama. They are both really good. I think I like the Java Whip from Mad Llama better because it’s soft serve, coffee AND caramel, which is a good thing because we can get to Mad Llama a lot easier than we can get to Sunset Ice Cream. But why compare? Why not just enjoy both?

We have some leaves to rake in our backyard…

But it was so rainy this morning that we’re not going to be able to rake them today. The leaves were so wet. That’s fine because we just wanted to be lazy today. And the sky still looked pretty ominous…

I think Mack was really happy to be back home again…

Later, we took the dog’s around the block and the sky was so pretty…

And good evening from our backyard…

I took all the photos this evening with my little DJI Osmo Pocket. And they turned out really nice, even in low light. The contrast was much better than my mobile’s camera. I think I need to find a different Android camera app to try. However, the DJI Osmo Pocket struggled with these night clouds that we saw from our backyard…

It was really nice to be back home. We pretty much laid around all day and watched football. I worked on my photos and videos a bit. We did laundry and got ready to get back to work tomorrow. Later, we finally finished The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix. For a show about chess, it was really very good.

It’s fun to go place but it’s also nice to be back home. ๐Ÿ˜€๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿฆโ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿ“บโ™Ÿ๏ธโค๏ธ

350,000 views.

Today, my reviews on Google Maps went over 350,000 viewsโ€ฆ

Back at the beginning of September, my reviews on Google Maps had just over 300,000 views. Itโ€™s all a pretty big accomplishment, if you ask me. And itโ€™s pretty neat. Itโ€™s nice to still be popular. Itโ€™s been tough with all the COVID-19 but I keep working hard on my Google Maps contributions. Thanks for giving me another way to share my photos… and experiences, Google! #LetsGuide ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐Ÿ“ทโค๏ธ

Good evening from Northside.

We saw this great sidewalk chalk art on top of the hill at the end of our street…

After looking at this photo, I think we were looking at it upside down.

Good evening from Northside…

It’s fun to visit new places and go on trips but it’s also nice to be home. ๐Ÿ˜€๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿพโค๏ธ

Good morning from Northside.

Good morning from Northside…

We’re swapping our normal morning view for a beach view next week. And we’re pretty excited about it. ๐Ÿ˜€๐ŸŒ„โค๏ธ

Count. Every. Vote!

Wonderful timely typography by @nourslabyrinth. ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ“โค๏ธ

We made it! It’s Skyline time!

All we had to do was make it through today, and tomorrow we’d be off to North Carolina for the week…

We walked down the path on the top of the hill to watch the sunrise…

There was a very faint pink streak across the sky this morning…

Good morning from Northside…

We finally made it through our day. We wrapped up all our lose ends and I finished up our projects the best we could. After work, we ran a couple of errands to get a few things for our trip. And on our way home, we stopped to get Skyline carry-out for dinner tonight…

Skyline is sooo good. It’s pretty annoying how early it gets dark now…

Good evening from Northside…

We are pretty much all packed and set to go on our road trip tomorrow morning. We just have to drop off Mack at the kennel and then we are on our way! ๐Ÿ˜€๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿง€๐ŸŒญโค๏ธ

Hello from Northside.

Good morning from Northside…

It was weird to get back to work today after having yesterday off for the election. It felt like it should have been a Monday but it was a Wednesday. It just made for a really odd feeling day.

We’ve been waiting for this big tree to start to change color…

Good evening from Northside…

Tonight, We started getting ready for our trip to North Carolina. And we watched more of The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix. That series is surprisingly good for just being about chess. ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ“บโค๏ธ

Our Election Day.

We got up extra early this morning to walk over to North Presbyterian Church on Hamilton Avenue in Northside so Genifer could vote…

I dropped off my absentee ballot at the Board of Elections last week.

The polls opened at 6:30am this morning. We got there just a little before 6:00am and Genifer was second in line…

As we stood waiting for the polls to open, the line steadily grew behind us…

Genifer got to cast her vote. And we were over at Sidewinder to get coffee by 6:45am…

Sidewinder had cinnamon rolls this morning too…

My office was closed today for the election so everyone could vote. And Genifer had a pretty light day with her work. So later, we walked back down Hamilton Avenue to Blue Jay for lunch…

Genifer had a five-way and fries for lunch…

And I had Blue Jay’s chicken tender sammich with cheese…

I love that dang sammich. Blue Jay is so good. We don’t eat there enough.

We enjoyed the rest of our Election Day by not doing much of anything. We played in our backyard for a bit…

And we went on our evening walk around the block…

Good evening from Northside…

For dinner, I ate a carry out five-way and a cheese coney I got from Blue Jay…

This evening we went out of our way to avoid any news about the Election. I don’t think we’re going to know the final results any time soon. I just hope everything turns out for the best and that competent adults start running the country again. ๐Ÿ˜€๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธโ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒญโค๏ธ

A Monday without rain?

This is the first Monday in a while that it hasn’t been rainy and grey…

It was actually a very pretty morning…

Good morning from Northside…

I made myself a buffalo chicken grilled cheese for lunch…

It kind of annoying how it gets dark so early now…

Good evening from Northside…

We got to bed early tonight because we’re going to get up early to try tomorrow morning to vote. Other than that, it was just another Monday. ๐Ÿ˜€๐ŸŒ„๐Ÿ”๐Ÿฅชโค๏ธ

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