One year ago today, Genifer picked up her new Audi Q3…
We’ve driven her Q3 all around town, out to the Outer Banks… (twice!), over to Indianapolis and up to Michigan. We’ve put just over 11,000 miles on it in the first yeat. It’s been a wonderful vehicle that’s fun to drive and easy to maintain.
She picked a good one!
Thanks for the memories, Timehop. 😀🦕1⃣❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 16, 2020
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Our first day back home and of course, it was a cold and rainy morning…
Welcome back to Ohio and good morning from Northside…
We ran over to the grocery because we didn’t have any food in our house…
It’s the middle of November and there were Christmas display all over the store. I chose to ignore all that nonsense. I could ignore this giant lion…
Kroger had the panda bear and the train back on the shelf again today…
I forgot to look at the balloons. I bet there were some great Thanskgiving balloons. Hopefully, I’ll remember to look if we go to the grocery store next weekend.
After the grocery, we stopped at Mad Llama for Sunday morning coffee…
One of my favorite sayings is, Comparison is the thief of joy. On our way home, we had a discussion about which was better: the Espresso Shake from Sunset Ice Cream in Duck OR the Caramel Java Whip from Mad Llama. They are both really good. I think I like the Java Whip from Mad Llama better because it’s soft serve, coffee AND caramel, which is a good thing because we can get to Mad Llama a lot easier than we can get to Sunset Ice Cream. But why compare? Why not just enjoy both?
We have some leaves to rake in our backyard…
But it was so rainy this morning that we’re not going to be able to rake them today. The leaves were so wet. That’s fine because we just wanted to be lazy today. And the sky still looked pretty ominous…
I think Mack was really happy to be back home again…
Later, we took the dog’s around the block and the sky was so pretty…
And good evening from our backyard…
I took all the photos this evening with my little DJI Osmo Pocket. And they turned out really nice, even in low light. The contrast was much better than my mobile’s camera. I think I need to find a different Android camera app to try. However, the DJI Osmo Pocket struggled with these night clouds that we saw from our backyard…
It was really nice to be back home. We pretty much laid around all day and watched football. I worked on my photos and videos a bit. We did laundry and got ready to get back to work tomorrow. Later, we finally finished The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix. For a show about chess, it was really very good.
It’s fun to go place but it’s also nice to be back home. 😀🌄🦁☕️📺♟️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 15, 2020
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Today, my reviews on Google Maps went over 350,000 views…
Back at the beginning of September, my reviews on Google Maps had just over 300,000 views. It’s all a pretty big accomplishment, if you ask me. And it’s pretty neat. It’s nice to still be popular. It’s been tough with all the COVID-19 but I keep working hard on my Google Maps contributions. Thanks for giving me another way to share my photos… and experiences, Google! #LetsGuide 😀🗺️📷❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 15, 2020
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We saw this great sidewalk chalk art on top of the hill at the end of our street…
After looking at this photo, I think we were looking at it upside down.
Good evening from Northside…
It’s fun to visit new places and go on trips but it’s also nice to be home. 😀🌄🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 14, 2020
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We’re home from our week out in the Outer Banks. We stayed in the little town of Duck again. We really like it out there in the Outer Banks, and Duck in particular…
The house we stayed in was so nice…
It was just a short walk from the house down the street to the beach…
We woke up to watch the sunrise every morning…
Then we’d drive to get coffees from Duck Cottage…
We’d sit on the patio on and drink our coffee…
We’d walk down and sit on the beach…
We’d go find something amazing to eat for lunch…
Then we were back on the patio or we’d hang out inside and watch TV…
And we’d watch the sunset…
There were so many stars at night…
It was so wonderful and relaxing and low-key. And we got to repeat that routine all pretty much week. There were a few variations. One morning, we got breakfast from Treehouse Coffee. We drove up to Corolla one afternoon to see the Currituck Lighthouse and Whalebone House. We got some espresso milkshakes from Sunset Ice Cream. The weather was really beautiful all week. It only rained on our last day but that gave us the perfect opportunity to check out some of the local gift shops. And we found some great treasure and souvenirs.
It was a really wonderful week. And now we feel ready for what looks like a very long, cold COVID-19 winter. 😀🌅🗺️🦆❤️
Click to see all of our photos from our trip and a handful of little videos too.
Posted by Thadd F. on November 14, 2020
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Good morning from Northside…
We’re swapping our normal morning view for a beach view next week. And we’re pretty excited about it. 😀🌄❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 6, 2020
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Wonderful timely typography by @nourslabyrinth. 😀🗳️📝❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 6, 2020
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All we had to do was make it through today, and tomorrow we’d be off to North Carolina for the week…
We walked down the path on the top of the hill to watch the sunrise…
There was a very faint pink streak across the sky this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
We finally made it through our day. We wrapped up all our lose ends and I finished up our projects the best we could. After work, we ran a couple of errands to get a few things for our trip. And on our way home, we stopped to get Skyline carry-out for dinner tonight…
Skyline is sooo good. It’s pretty annoying how early it gets dark now…
Good evening from Northside…
We are pretty much all packed and set to go on our road trip tomorrow morning. We just have to drop off Mack at the kennel and then we are on our way! 😀🌄🧀🌭❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 5, 2020
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Good morning from Northside…
It was weird to get back to work today after having yesterday off for the election. It felt like it should have been a Monday but it was a Wednesday. It just made for a really odd feeling day.
We’ve been waiting for this big tree to start to change color…
Good evening from Northside…
Tonight, We started getting ready for our trip to North Carolina. And we watched more of The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix. That series is surprisingly good for just being about chess. 😀🗳️📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 4, 2020
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