Genifer’s Cowboys were playing on Monday Night Football against the Arizona Cardinals tonight. Before the game started, we ordered some delicious NYPD Pizza…

The pizza was great and the Cowboys beat the Cardinals 28-17! 😀🍕🏈❤️
Genifer’s Cowboys were playing on Monday Night Football against the Arizona Cardinals tonight. Before the game started, we ordered some delicious NYPD Pizza…

The pizza was great and the Cowboys beat the Cardinals 28-17! 😀🍕🏈❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 25, 2017
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Shannon sent us this awesome reversible Oktoberfest coozie in the mail…



PROST! Thanks, Shannon! Happy Oktoberfest! 😀🍺🍻❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 25, 2017
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Where has the summer gone? As the baseball starts to wind down and thoughts begin to turn to the postseason almost mercifully, today was the final home game of the Reds baseball season. It would be our seventh Reds game of this baseball season, and the Reds were ending with a homestand against my favorite American League team, Boston Red Sox…




These Ballpark Express self-serve, automated pick-up stations are the first of their kind at any major league stadium. They are supposed to allow fans to skip all the really long concession lines to be able to spend more time enjoying the game by ordering and paying for food and beverages using the official MLB.com Ballpark app…

I don’t know… Pretty really weird, right? BARGE!



We got to see Xander Bogaerts…



And Dustin Pedoria…



And Madeira Ohio native, Andrew Benintendi…



And Mookie Betts…









According to my Swarm, I’ve been to 257 Reds games…


Billy Hamilton had the play of the game, hands down. Billy got caught leaning the wrong way off of first and turned a bad throw during the ensuing rundown into a run for the Reds as he raced all the way home from first. It left the Red Sox scratching their collective heads as to what just happened…







The Reds lead most of the game but ended up losing to the Sox 5-4, and getting swept in the weekend series. The last time the Reds won was at the game we were at last Sunday against the Pirates…

It was another great season of Reds baseball. 😀⚾️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 24, 2017
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This afternoon we went back over to the new Taft’s Brewporium for lunch…

Garlic knots, 10″ pepperoni pizza, loaded tots and some shuffleboard…

More of the Brewporium was opened up this time, their space is huge…

Later, we met some new friends at Higher Gravity and caught the second half of the Michigan game. And then we walked down to Second Place for FC Cincinnati away match to St. Louis. Michigan finally pulled away from Purdue, and the FC|C match ended in a 2-2 draw. It was another really fun Saturday in Northside. 😀⬆️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 23, 2017
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After a three-month hiatus, Django Western Taco has reopened in their new location just up Hamilton Avenue a couple doors down from Tickle Pickle. They’re so close to us now. We’ve been anxiously waiting for their return, and tonight we were finally rewarded for our patience…







We started with some chips & salsa…

And added some Django-style guacamole…


I ordered a fried chicken taco and Genifer ordered a carne asda taco…

And I had to get a jerk chicken quesadilla…

Such delicious, delicious flavors. Everything was just the way we remember it, if not even better! So good! Speaking of so good, check out Django Western Taco’s menu for the upcoming Greater Cincinnati Restaurant Week…

I know where our first stop is going to be during restaurant week. It sounds delicious.


It’s so good to have Django Western Taco back in the neighborhood and just a hop, skip and a jump from our house. 😀🌮❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 22, 2017
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Posted by Thadd F. on September 21, 2017
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When I got off the bus this evening, it started pouring. No big deal. But the weird thing was there wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the sun was out in full effect…


But I couldn’t find the rainbow anywhere. 😕🙃🌦️🌈❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 21, 2017
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There have been so many pretty evenings lately. 😀🌥️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 20, 2017
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It was Taco Tuesday for dinner tonight. But on a Wednesday? Whaaaaat?


YUM! Tacos. 😀🌮❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 20, 2017
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I’ve been crazy busy at work lately, and haven’t had much of a chance to get out and wander around downtown for a bit. But I was walking to get my hair cut this afternoon and I couldn’t help but notice that there’s a lot of construction going on in downtown Cincinnati again.
They’re still trying to demolish the last little bit of The Dennison Hotel. Apparently, there was some sort of shared common wall issue with the building next door. And now this eyesore has taken the place of a historic building…



The only reminder The Dennison Hotel beside the hole in the ground is this sticker on what remains of the red brick facade…

Across the parking lot, it looks like the new apartment building that was being built across the street from our old apartment is finally reaching completion. And it has a fancy name, Encore.

Seeking of facades, it looks like they’re doing some pretty extensive work on the facade of this building on Main Street judging by the scaffolding…

Right next door, Bay Horse Cafe is open for business…

There’s a Wahlburger’s coming to Sixth Street where Pi Pizzeria used to be…


That will bring the downtown burger joint count to five with Americano, Bobby’s Burger Palace, Bru, Burger-fi and now Walburgers. Also on Sixth Street is all this mess…

The old Trattoria Roma is becoming an Irish pub & restaurant, O’Reilly’s…

And there’s also a new pizza place on Sixth Street called Zablong…


There’s this mess on Eighth Street…


And finally, Deskey has a new front window display…

The more things change, the things stay the same. There’s always something new popping up or being constructed in downtown Cincinnati. 😀❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 20, 2017
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