All posts tagged 2020

My ballot arrived today.

Good morning from Northside…

For dinner tonight, we had another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals for dinner tonight. This one was Hawaiian Boneless Pork Chop with bacon green beans…

It was another really delicious dinner. The pineapple with the crispy onions on top of the pork chops and the bacon green beans were outstanding. The sauce was kind of an Asiany soy sauce. We really like the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kits a lot.

Good evening from Northside…

My voter packet arrived in the mail today…

The first one was a no-brainer. The rest were just really everything straight Democratic ticket. Now I just need to figure out the judges. 😀🌄🐷🍍🗳️❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 7, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #SUMMERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Posted by Thadd F. on October 7, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/07/my-ballot-arrived-today/

With… Sprinkles.

Good morning from Northside…

The front yard of the house at the end of the street is out of control…

Genifer made P.F. Chang’s Orange Chicken for dinner tonight…

And she made dumplings too…

For dessert, she bought home a three big of cookies from Taste of Belgium…

I thought the sugar cookie with sprinkles was the best one…

But maybe I just really like Sprinkles.

And good evening from Northside…

And the evening always ends with ball in the backyard. 😀🌄🥡🍪❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 6, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2020, Cincinnati, Cookies, Dumplings, Good evening, Good morning, Home, Home Sweet Home, Look up in the sky, Northside, Oct6, October, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Orange chicken, Our backyard, P.F.Chang's, Seen and noted, Taste of Belgium

Posted by Thadd F. on October 6, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/06/with-sprinkles/

Mondays are always hard.

Good morning from Northside…

And good evening from Northside…

Not a cloud in the sky all day long. And then we just crashed out…

We just blew through both The Five and Safe. Both of the series were based on books by Harlan Coben and both were really outstanding. They had so many twists and turns. We never would have guessed the ending in either series. They were sooo good.

And that was another Monday in the books. 😀🌄🐾📺❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 5, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2020, Cincinnati, Dogs, Good evening, Good morning, Home Sweet Home, Look up in the sky, Mack, Netflix & Chill, Northside, Oct5, October, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Our backyard, Pets, Seen and noted

Posted by Thadd F. on October 5, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/05/mondays-are-always-hard/

Google Maps Local Guides Level 9!

I FINALLY DID IT! I just made it to Local Guide Level 9! I’ve been plugging away and working really hard on my Google Maps/Local Guides. I’ve been posting photos and reviews of every place we visit to try to inch myself from Level 8 up to Level 9. I’ve been painfully close to level 9 for a while, and this evening I finally made it…

HOORAY for Level 9! It doesn’t really mean much to anyone other than me. I don’t get anything. I just think it’s fun. It’s kind of like my Swarm. It’s another way to share our experiences and especially another place to share all the dang photos I take of every little thing every single day.

And that’s really why I like Google Maps Local Guides! #LetsGuide 😀🗺️📷9⃣❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 5, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged #LetsGuide, 2020, Cincinnati, Google Local Guides, Google Maps, Home, Home Sweet Home, Level 9, Northside, Oct5, October, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted

Posted by Thadd F. on October 5, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/05/google-maps-local-guides-level-9/

#TBT Pause for paws.

These photos of Oscar popped up in my Timehop…

He was so cute and so fuzzy in these photos. Thanks for the memories, Timehop. 😀🦕🐾❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 5, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Odd & Ends

Tagged #TBT, #Timehop, 2020, Cincinnati, Dogs, Eight years ago, Home, Home Sweet Home, Oct5, October, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Oscar, Pause for paws, Pets, Seen and noted, Timehop

Posted by Thadd F. on October 5, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/05/tbt-pause-for-paws-59/

Burger King and some whaaaat?

Good morning from Northside…

We were so lazy today. We laid around all morning. Finally, we started to get hungry and ventured out of the house. On our way to get lunch, we stopped to get gas in Finneytown…

And there was this sticker on our pump…

And then it was onto the Home of the Whopper. We ordered a BK feast through the Burger King App…

Usually, Burger King is reserved only for road trips. But it just sounded really good today. And we ordered a bunch so we’d have snack for later.

I’m just going to leave these scores here without comment…

😳😬😲 What makes it even more nuts is when you combine today’s Liverpool and United results with last weekend’s thumping of City by Leicester…

It brings me great joy whenever United or Liverpool lose. And to have them both great thumped on the same day, just makes for a really great Sunday. Now I have a couple of matches to go back and watch to see just what the heck happened.

Good evening from Northside…

And we finished our Sunday with ball in our backyard until it got too dark…

We had a very nice, lazy and relaxing Sunday. 😀🌄🍔👑📺⚽️❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 4, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Posted by Thadd F. on October 4, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/04/burger-king-and-a-shocker/

Hello from Northside.

Good morning from Northside…

Since they’re finally done working on our street, we moved our stones and bricks back to their original place in our front yard…

I think we’re going to come out of the water main replacement on our street with only losing a couple of flowers. And that’s really not too bad.

And after our fun afternoon, good evening from Northside…

My Minnesota United was playing FC Cincinnati tonight at Minnesota. Apparently even with the pandemic, a ban on spectators at the matches AND the match being played all the way in Minnesota, FC Cincinnati matches are still blacked out on ESPN+…

Come to find out that thankfully, you can actually stream the FC|C matches through YouTubeTV now…

Minnesota United knocked off FC Cincy 2-0. And Louisville City neat Swope Park Rangers 2-1. It was a great way to end a really fun day. 😀🌄📺⚽️❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 3, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, FC Cincinnati, Northside, Sports

Posted by Thadd F. on October 3, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/03/hello-from-northside-18/

Covington Yard & Holiday Spirits.

This afternoon we headed out to cross the river over into Kentucky…

On our way, we drove by the new soccer stadium in the West End…

It looks pretty nice. Too bad the team that will be playing in the there is so terrible. We also drove by our old apartment building…

And then it was over the river into Kentucky…

And then we were at Covington Yard…

Genifer had a sangria slushie…

There are three shipping containers restaurants at Covington Yard: Mr. Bulgogi Korean BBQ, Django Western Taco and Yardbird…

We can get delicious Django tacos whenever we want and Mr. Bulgogi wasn’t open so we shared their delicious chicken sammich and fries from Yardbird…

That chicken sammich was really delicious.

Genifer had a bourbon slush and I had a Mango Cart…

Covington Yard is so fun. On our way back home, we stopped in Over-the-Spirits at Holiday Spirits…

We talked about all the trips we’d like to take when the pandemic is over.

And we watched a Black Lives Matter march go by on Liberty Street…

There was the new stadium again…

And we’ve come full circle. We had a really fun afternoon. 😀🐔🍟🍻❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 3, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, FC Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Odd & Ends, Over-the-Rhine, Sports

Posted by Thadd F. on October 3, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/03/covington-yard-holiday-spirits/

I’m really bad at painting.

The trees colors are starting to change up on top of the hill at the end of our street…

Good morning from Northside…

We walked to Sidewinder to get Friday morning coffee…

And good evening from Northside…

We had delicious ramen noodles for dinner tonight…

We’ve been working on staining our new backyard fence…

It turns out I’m not very good at painting at all…

Thank goodness it’s Friday. 😀🌄☕️🍜❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 2, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #FALLinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Posted by Thadd F. on October 2, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/02/im-really-bad-at-painting/

Hello October.

It’s pretty crazy to me that today is the first day of October…

For still being in the middle of a global pandemic, stuck at home and not really being able to do much of anything, this year certainly has flown right by. I would like my 2020 back, please. I think we should all get to take a mulligan for this year and get to try 2020 over again next year.

They weren’t working on our street this morning. So we got to go back up to the top of the hill at the end of our street and say…

Good morning from Northside!

This is what the street looked like in front of our house this morning…

But a little while later, they filled it in with asphalt…

And good evening from Northside…

We ordered hoagie sammiches from NYPD…

And after we stuffed our faces full of delicious NYPD hoagie sammiches and french fries, we played ball in our backyard and we watched the beautiful sunset clouds….