Happy birthday, FC Cincinnati!

Three years ago today, it was announced that FC Cincinnati was getting a USL soccer team. I remember being stunned and then incredibly excited by the news that there was going to be professional soccer in Cincinnati. And that it was going to be played right in our backyard at Nippert Stadium on the campus of the University of Cincinnati…

We were so excited! We went to Rhinehaus in OtR to meet one soccer idols, John Harkes who was named head coach of the Queen City’s fledgling soccer team…

Happy birthday, FC Cincinnati! It’s been an amazing three years of USL soccer! 😀⚽️❤️

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by Thadd F. on August 12, 2018 • Permalink

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Pause for paws.

This morning these adorable photos popped up in my Timehop of Oscar looking out our bedroom window across at our next door neighbors roof…

He was on the lookout, always keeping a watchful eye out for squirrels…

Oscar’s so funny. And so dang cute. 😀🐾🦕❤️

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by Thadd F. on August 12, 2018 • Permalink

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Happy birthday, Higher Gravity!

When we were out running around yesterday, I stopped at Kroger a got a little sheet cake because today is Higher Gravity’s one-year anniversary! Happy birthday, HG!

It seems like just yesterday that we were checking out Higher Gravity for the very first time. Over the last year, Higher Gravity has become one of our top two favorite places to hang out in Northside. (The other one is Second Place.) HG always has interesting and delicious beers on tap and in stock. We’ve tried a bunch of great beers there. And we’ve also made a bunch of great friends there on the last year. Cheer, guys! Here’s to many more years to come!

We love Higher Gravity! 😀🍺❤️

Oh, and we also added to our crowler collection to bring with us up to Michigan…

👍🍻

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by Thadd F. on August 11, 2018 • Permalink

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Tagged 2018, August, Cincinnati, Cincinnati beer, Happy birthday, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, Home Sweet Home, Northside, Ohio, Seen and noted, Shaken not stirred

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Look up in the sky.

There were some amazing clouds while we were walking the dogs this evening…

😀☁️❤️

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by Thadd F. on August 10, 2018 • Permalink

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Fun stuff makes therapy better.

This morning Mack had a vet appointment to get updated on his vaccinations. And then later in the morning, I had physical therapy. We left a little bit early to stop for breakfast at Sleepy Bee in Oakley. It was so good. Genifer had The Worker Bee breakfast slam…

And I had The Broakley breakfast sammich…

Then it was on to physical therapy…

Later in the afternoon, we stopped at Taft’s Brewpourium for a beer while we watched the kickoff of the new season of English Premier League soccer between Leicester City (hooray!) and Manchester United (boo!)…

And we had some knots with beer cheese and a little pizza…

Unfortunately, Leicester lost 2-1. But Jamie Vardy scored so that’s something good.

Physical therapy hasn’t been bad. And I actually look forward to it because my hips feel much better afterward. But sandwiching it in between a couple of really fun activities makes it even better. 😀🍳🏥🍺🍕⚽️❤️

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by Thadd F. on August 10, 2018 • Permalink

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Tagged 2018, August, Cincinnati, New Haven style pizza, Northside, Oakley, Ohio, Physical Therapy, Sleepy Bee, Soccer, Spring Grove Village, Taft's Brewporium, The Christ Hospital

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Good morning and good evening from Northside.

Good morning from Northside…

And good evening from Northside…

The morning photo was Taken with Instagram. 😀🌄❤️

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by Thadd F. on August 9, 2018 • Permalink

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NYPD PIZZA NIGHT!

Tonight was a delicious NYPD pizza kind of night!

Pizza and cheese bread and boneless wings! We love NYPD Pizza nights. 😀🍕🐔❤️

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by Thadd F. on August 8, 2018 • Permalink

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It’s what’s for dinner.

Genifer made seasoned chicken with chipotle cheddar mashed potatoes and stuffing for dinner this evening…

It was really tasty. She’s such a good cook and comes up with the most delicious meals. 😀🐔❤️

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by Thadd F. on August 7, 2018 • Permalink

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Mr. Fix-It.

The lock on our back door broke this evening. I went to let the dogs out the back door into the yard and the little knob came right off in my hand…

We had to use needle-nosed pliers to get the back door open. Thankfully, we could also use the needle-nosed pliers to get the door to latch again after they came back inside.

UPDATE: I managed to find the exact same lock at Wood’s Hardware downtown and replace the lock and add a deadbolt to our back door. It was surprisingly not that difficult at all. This is now the third lock I’ve replaced in our house. A while back the deadbolt on our front door broke after unlocking it to get into our house when we were coming home one evening. And I replaced that lock with little difficulty as well. I’m becoming quite the master locksmith. Haha. 😀🔐❤️

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by Thadd F. on August 7, 2018 • Permalink

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1400 in a single day.

I had a 1400+ point Monday on my Swarm. That’s never happened to me before…

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I remember when there was a time when I was so thrilled to break 1000 points for the week on Foursquare before it morphed into Swarm. I would have been so happy with 1400 points for an entire week. And it wasn’t too long ago that my best for a week was 1985 point on Swarm. Now to be able to tally over 1400 points in a single day is pretty remarkable. Kind of unbelievable. Swarm is pretty silly but I still really like my check-ins on Swarm! 😀⭐️❤️