Good morning from Northside…
And good evening for Northside…
I found this recipe for how to make the banana pudding from Magnolia Bakery in New York City at home. We didn’t make this recipe exactly. But Genifer still made banana pudding for us…
I mixed my pudding and ReddiWip all together…
Banana pudding is delicious. 😀🌄🐾🍌❤️
And this photo of Oscar showed up in my Timehop today…
Posted by Thadd F. on November 24, 2020
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Good morning from Northside…
And fast forward to this evening. For dinner tonight, we had another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals for dinner tonight. This one was Parmesan Pork Chops with pesto broccoli…
And it was another delicious dinner. The pork chop was so cheesy and the pesto broccoli was really good. Broccoli is one of my favorite vegetables. And it was topped with crispy red peppers. They were tasty. It was one of the better meals. We like the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kits a lot.
We took the dogs on their walk and the moon was really bright tonight…
Good evening from Northside…
We made it through another Monday. 😀🌄🍽️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 23, 2020
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Bleh. Good morning from Northside…
When I was putting this blog post together, I had a hard time figuring out if these were photos from this morning or yesterday evening. It all just looked the same… very, very grey and awfully damp…
We ran over to Lowe’s this morning…
Lowe’s had all their Christmas stuff out in full force…
Christmas trees are silly expensive at Lowe’s…
It must be the frosted tips or maybe the lights…
We got our artificial Christmas tree for a fraction of that a couple of years ago. We found it on one of those deals and discounts websites after Christmas. And I guess we got a really good deal. I liked this wreath…
We’re thinking about replacing the carpeting in our bedroom with this embossed wood plank laminate flooring in Seaside Chestnut…
We want to remake our third floor bedroom to have a coastal cottage feel. Genifer wants to paint our bedroom. Here’s the colors she’s thinking…
And I really liked this rug…
And then we went back to Biggby for coffee…
I tried this new Biggby maple waffle breakfast sammich…
It was really good. I would definitely eat it again.
And after some football, it was good evening from Northside…
We watched my Minnesota United host their first home playoff match tonight against Colorado Rapids. Andhe Loons earned their first playoff victory with a 3-0 win over Colorado led by two goals from Kevin Molino…
Take that, Stan Kroenke.
Two years ago, we were in Dallas for Thanksgiving. And I ate the spiciest chicken sammich I have ever eaten. It was so delicious but soooo spicy…
Thanks for the memories, Timehop.
It was just a low-key weekend with all the rain. 😀🌄🌧️🎄☕️🏈⚽️🦕🐔🔥❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 22, 2020
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The weather forecast said was supposed to be a rainy weekend…
They weren’t kidding. Good morning from Northside…
We dodged the raindrops and ran over to the grocery store…
It’s hard to believe that next Thursday will be Thanksgiving. There were some great Thanksgiving balloons at the store this morning…
They had Christmas balloons too… because why not?
After the grocery, we stopped for Saturday morning coffee at Biggby…
It was a rainy day and we all just sort of laid around today…
We ate leftover pizza and watched the MLS Cup Playoffs play-in matches. And another exciting match was sullied by nonsensical MLS officiating when the match went to penalty shoot-outs…
And the result was a 22-minute shoot-out that involved the Orlando City’s keeper getting sent off for his second bookable offense…
Upon review, he was judged to have clearly come off his line to make a save…
And he was sent off as a result. After all that on the very next penalty, NYCFC’s keeper came off his line in the EXACT same manner to make the save to force sudden death…
And ridiculously enough, he was not booked. The kick was not retaken. Nothing. Fine as you were. And Bob’s your uncle. But that’s MLS for you. No consistency. It was one of the most unnecessarily bizarre penalty shoot-outs I’ve ever seen.
After all that mess, we took the dogs on a walk around the block…
It was still rainy. Good evening from Northside…
And later we watched Michigan take over 4 1/2 hours and three overtimes to finally get the W at Rutgers…
It was a pretty good lazy Saturday despite all the rain. 😀🌄🌧️🎈☕️🍕⚽️🏈❤️
And our basement is still completely dry.
Posted by Thadd F. on November 21, 2020
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We got to see another really pretty sunrise this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
And there was this pretty little flower on one of the shrubs in our front yard…
We walked to Sidewinder to get coffees this morning to celebrate Friday…
Fast forward through the work day, and it was officially the weekend! Time for a Toppers pizza party!
Omigosh! Great pizza! What a terrific way to usher in the weekend!
After we stuffed ourselves full of pizza and cheesy bread, we took the dogs out on their walk around the block…
We started watching the second season of Dark on Netflix. And then we all pretty much just crashed out…
We’re really happy we made it through the week. The work week after a vacation always feels so long. Now we can just relax again. I don’t think we really have any big plans for this weekend. There’s still this pandemic that is more out of control now than ever. And I think it’s suppose to rain all weekend too. 😀🌄☕️🍕🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 20, 2020
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It’s Thursday. We’ve almost made it through another week…
Good morning from Northside…
Fast forward through the work day to the sunset this evening in our backyard…
Genifer made these turkey mushroom stuffed acorn squash for dinner…
And they were delicious! She always finds the best recipes to make.
After dinner, we went back out in our backyard to check on the sunset…
And then we took the dogs around the block. There was a big X is the sky…
Good evening from Northside…
Tonight, I was trying a different camera app. I was looking for an app that made it easier to control the contrast because I thought some of my photos have looked washed out lately. Now, these feel a little too dark. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Later, we watched the Thursday night football game. While we were watching the game, I remembered something I heard one of the announcers say during last week’s Thursday night football game…
Last time I checked, points aid in one’s pursuit of a win when playing a game that a score is kept.
It totally sounds like something Joe Buck would say.
Today was also my 888th Timehop in a row…
And in my 888th Timehop in a row was one of my favorite gifts we ever received, our Cincinnati Reds All-Star Legacy Brick…
We had another pretty good Thursday. 😀🌄🐾🍽️🦕🧱❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 19, 2020
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There were some very pretty clouds this morning…
They created a very low ceiling over Northside…
Good morning from Northside…
I need to learn more about clouds. It would be neat to be able to say, “check out these mackerel sky altocumulus clouds we had over Cincinnati this morning.” I don’t want to be a weather person but meterology is pretty neat.
I put out the trash and recycling this evening and there was the moon…
Good evening from Northside…
We had broiler sammiches for dinner tonight. Mine was Cajun turkey and cheddar on Hawaiian bread…
And Genifer made more Snoopy cookies…
Good night moon…
I had to work on my work projects this evening for meeting tomorrow. And the was the only part of today that was kind of a bummer. 😀☁️🥪🍪🌙❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 18, 2020
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Two years ago, I got this “Rocket Drone ZF7 With Folding” to review…
I was so excited to try it out. There’s a big open soccer field behind the school on top of hill at the end of our street. I started flying it and…
With it still hovering in place, I started to record video of my drone’s maiden flight. I touched the left joysticks and the drone started to drift away from me. Frantically, I started moving both joysticks to try to pilot the drone back in my direction. But the controls went completely unresponsive as the drone drifted towards tall trees just on the far side of the soccer goal in the photo above. I started to run after it hoping that if I got closer to it maybe I could regain some control of the drone. But I couldn’t get close enough in time and I watched it hit the top of one of the trees and drop to the floor of Parker Woods on the other side of a ten-foot chain-linked fence…
And it’s still out there somewhere…
Maybe someday I’ll try a different drone. Maybe one from DJI. But probably not any time soon.
Thanks for the memories, Timehop. 😐🦕❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 18, 2020
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The sky was so pretty this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
We had to run an late errand late this morning, and while we were out the sky started looking very threatening…
But it never rained, thankfully. We picked up Wendy’s for lunch on the way home. After we finished lunch, it was just work, work, work for the rest of the afternoon.
And finally, it was good evening from Northside…
All these photos this evening were taken just before to seven o’clock…
We were pretty tired this evening. I think we were both asleep shortly after nine o’clock. Ugh, Tuesdays. Amiright? 😀🌄☁️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 17, 2020
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It’s Monday morning. And for once, we had a Monday morning that wasn’t rainy. It made it a little bit easier to get out of bed this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
And then it was time to get back to work…
A really big project got underway last week while we were kicking it on the beach. It’s probably going to keep me pretty busy for a while.
For dinner tonight, we had another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals for dinner tonight. This one was Korean Pork Chop with bok choy and pepper lo mein…
They changed their packaging. But they didn’t change the deliciousness…
And it was another delicious dinner. The noodles and the sauce were terrific. And the pork chop was really good too. But I could eaten a huge bowl of just those noodles. They were tasty. We like the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kits a lot.
Good evening from Northside…
The time change is still really messing with me. It gets dark so early now. These photos were taken just before 6:45pm. It feels like it’s 11pm…
But we made it through our Monday. Genifer fell asleep pretty early and I started watching For All Mankind on Apple TV. It reminds me a bit of The Man in the High Castle by presenting a “what if the United States hadn’t won?” scenario. For all Mankind dramatizes an alternate history depicting “what would have happened if the global space race had never ended” after the Soviet Union put a man on the Moon ahead of the United States, and where would the world be now. I think it’s pretty interesting.
😀🌄💻🍜📺🚀❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 16, 2020
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