Some photos of a very fuzzy Oscar popped up in my Timehop today…




He must have got his hair cut 2 years ago today. 😀🐾❤️
Some photos of a very fuzzy Oscar popped up in my Timehop today…




He must have got his hair cut 2 years ago today. 😀🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 29, 2018
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IT’S FC CINCINNATI MATCH DAY! But not just any match day, it’s international friendly match day. And just like last year, FC Cincinnati was playing host to another team from Spain’s top flight, La Liga. This year it happened to be RCD Espanyol all the way from Barcelona…

We stopped at Mac’s Pizza Pub before the match for some, er… pizza…


And then we headed over to Nippert to watch the friendly…













We were really liking Espanyol’s yellow kit…




HERE WE GO!

GOAL! FC CINCINNATI! FC|C grabbed the 1-0 lead in just the fifth minute…



It was a really pretty night for soccer…


My favorite FC|C Player, Justin Hoyte was warming up…

Espanyol leveled the match at one all…


At halftime, it was still 1-1. Instead of getting to see Sprinkles, FC|C put on some complete and total cheeseball “Cincinnati, Welcome to MLS” celebration at halftime…



It was pretty embarrassing. We stopped watching about halfway through…

And then mercifully, we were back to our regularly scheduled international friendly with RCD Espanyol…



There was a surprisingly small crowd of 16,135 at tonight’s match…

But to be fair, there was a music festival downtown that I hear drew over 90,000 people over the weekend. There was also Reds’ Votto giveaway followed by a free Walk the Moon concert at GABP, And there was Man United Versus Liverpool in Ann Arbor. It was one of those weekends where there was a ton of fun stuff going on.
GOAL!! FC CINCINNATI!! FC|C tied the game at two-all in the 76th minute. Manu Ledesma scored another incredible highlight reel goal…


The match ended 3-2 to RCB Espanyol. It was a surprisingly good match with FC|C holding their own against the Spanish side…


After the match, we were surprised by just how many players were wearing sports bras under their jerseys…


Like I said, it was a good game and a pretty fun night. But the most fun international friendly was still the very first one against Crystal Palace just because we’ve seen them play a bunch on TV and knew a lot of the players. I wonder if there will be an international friendly next season when they are in MLS? And if so, will it be an even more notable team? I guess we’ll have to wait and see… 😀🇺🇸⚽️🇪🇸❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 28, 2018
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This morning we went to Blue Jay for an early lunch…


You can’t see the Blue Jay sign through the trees…







Genifer ordered a couple of Blue Jay chili cheese sammiches and fries…

Basically, chili cheese dogs without the dogs. And I ordered the Northsider Omelet…

It’s a three-egg omelet smothered in Blue Jay’s Cincinnati-style chili with onions, beans, topped with cheddar cheese and served with toast…

It’s basically a Cincinnati five-way omelet and it was so good. We love Blue Jay…



Afterwards, we stopped next door at Shake It Records to do some record shopping…

We still don’t have a record player. We hope to remedy that very soon. But in addition to all sorts of records, they also have some really great greeting cards…

It was another great Saturday morning in Northside. Taken with my Polaroid CUBE+. 😀🐦❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 28, 2018
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The longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurred this evening…



The moon was huge this evening. And it was pretty neat. 😀🌚❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 27, 2018
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I haven’t been riding the bus that much lately. Genifer drops me off at work every morning. And since her work expanded her hours, she’s been picking me up from work in the evenings as well. This afternoon Genifer went to happy hour at Higher Gravity with our friend Tayler, which left me to ride the bus home. While I was riding the bus, I thought all the yellow flowers in the front yard of this house are really pretty…

I tried to get a photo of HG from the bus as it rolled passed and this is what my Polaroid CUBE+ decided to capture…

You win some and you lose some. Taken with my Polaroid CUBE+. 😀🌻❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 27, 2018
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I was on my way back to the office after getting my haircut. And I saw another of these little guys in the crosswalk at Seventh and Walnut Streets…


This one was a little worse for wear than the first one I saw at the intersection of Main and Seventh Streets. I’m still really curious what their stories are? And if there is still some sort of backstory like the Toynbee Tiles around downtown. Now that I’ve seen and second one, I’m going to have to keep an eye out to try to see if I can find any more of them around downtown Cincinnati. 😀🏙️🤖❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 27, 2018
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Oscar had a vet appointment this morning. He got his next allergy shot. He was a very brave little guy. And then Genifer said he crashed out for the rest of the afternoon…

Taken with Instagram. 😀🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 27, 2018
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Posted by Thadd F. on July 27, 2018
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We stopped at Skyline in Clifton on the way home from work to get some delicious Skyline cheese coneys for dinner tonight to celebrate National Chili Dog Day…

I wanted my cheese coneys to look like this when I got them home…

But instead, they looked like this. They looked kind of sad. But they still tasted delicious! So we’ll just say they looked as pretty as these. 😀🧀🌭❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 26, 2018
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Always remembering the good times with the bud dog. 😀🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 26, 2018
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