Northside Saturday.

This afternoon we walked down to Blue Jay for lunch…

We tried their cheese coneys and chili cheese sammiches and they were awesome!

After lunch, we were headed off to the grand opening of favorite coffee shop, Sidewinder’s brand new coffee roastery…

But first, we stopped in Shake It Records…

Seriously, we need to get a record player…

They had so many good records that I would have bought today if we had a record player. Walking down Hamilton Avenue right next to Hoffner Park, it looks like a new smoothie and juice bar is going in…

We made it all the way down Spring Grove to Sidewinder’s new coffee roastery…

Their new coffee roaster…

There was some serious roasting going on in here…

Original artworks by very talented artist and Sidewinder barista, Amy Poliner…

They’re going to need some more coffee beans…

We had a coffee drink and hung out for a little while and learned about the process of roasting coffee beans. It’s a lot more complicated than I thought it would be…

From there we stopped at Second Place to have a bourbon slushie and kill a little bit of time while we waited for our friend’s backyard birthday party to start…

W estayed at the backyard birthday party until it got too dark to see anymore in the backyard. And then we headed home. It was a really fun day in Northside. 😀❤️

Summer Hours: Taft’s Brewpourium.

Deskey lets us work just a half-day every other Friday throughout the summer. They call it Summer Hours. They’re pretty flippin’ awesome. And they’re back! Today was my first Summer Hours Friday, and we went to Taft’s Brewpourium for lunch…

We had a couple of beers and shared a pizza and some knots with beer cheese. Summer Hour Fridays are the best Fridays. 😀🍕🍻❤️

Seen and noted.

It’s kind of crazy to me how many snails we see on the sidewalks around Northside. We didn’t see 125 of them or anything. But we see more snails than you think we would…

I don’t think this snail is doing so well. 😀🐌❤️

Look up in the sky.

We saw a rainbow this evening on way home from our dog walk through Parker Woods! Taken with Instagram. 😀🌈❤️

One hundred and twenty-five.

We counted 125 Daddy Long Leg spiders on our dog walk through Parker Woods this evening. One hundred and twenty-five!

Our old record was 72 on a dog walk. I think we’re probably done counting spiders on dog walks now because that was really a lot of spiders to count. Taken with Instagram😀🕷️👀❤️

Good evening from Northside.

Good evening from Northside. We both took the day off work. We didn’t do much today. We just hung out with the dogs all day and were generally pretty lazy after our big fun Bunbury Music Festival weekend. It was wonderful. 😀🌄❤️

It turned out to be a pretty evening.

Good evening from Northside. 😀🌄❤️

Pause for paws.

This evening we were getting our stuff together in anticipation of our big fun Bunbury Music Festival weekend downtown, and Oscar was playing peek-a-boo in his new comforter that Grandma gave him when she was over on Memorial Day…

He’s so silly with that blanket. He loves doing roll-arounds on it, and he loves it when you cover him up and rub him through the blanket. You just have to be really careful with your fingers and toes because he’ll start to play rougher and rougher and has nipped some fingers and toes before. He’s so funny.

I also took these photos of Mack with my Polaroid CUBE…

I made the mistake of setting down my Polaroid CUBE shortly after taking this photo. When I turned away, Mack got hold of it and started chewing it. And that sucks. The bad news is, he chewed it and in doing so cracked the little plastic lens cover on the front of the camera. Good news is it still works. But the bad news is there isn’t any way to really protect the lens now. Better news I found the upgraded Polaroid CUBE super on sale for less than I paid for my original CUBE. And the upgraded CUBE has built-in Wi-Fi connectivity and free app that turns your mobile device into a viewfinder and shutter remote that works up to 30 feet away. I’ve been wanting the upgraded CUBE for a while. So good dog, Mack.  I’ll just be more mindful of where I set my new CUBE when it arrives. Thankfully that’s the only thing he’s chewed so far. Knock on wood.

I’m really bummed about my old CUBE but super excited for my new CUBE. 😀🐾📷❤️

Fridays are for Sidewinder.

Every Friday morning we stop at Sidewinder for coffee…

We love Sidewinder’s coffee drinks. It’s our little reward for making it through the week to another Friday. 😀☕️❤️

Still more thunderstorms.

After our dog walk and after we finished our pizza, we were upstairs in our bedroom tidying up and we heard thunder and looked out the window towards our backyard to see these menacing looking clouds…

And when we looked out the window in the front of the house, we saw this scene…

Now granted I took this photo with my Polaroid CUBE so the contrast is a little jacked up but still. Those were some serious looking storm clouds that thankfully skipped right over our neighborhood and dumped their rain somewhere else. 😀☁️❤️

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