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Our Election Day.

We got up extra early this morning to walk over to North Presbyterian Church on Hamilton Avenue in Northside so Genifer could vote…

I dropped off my absentee ballot at the Board of Elections last week.

The polls opened at 6:30am this morning. We got there just a little before 6:00am and Genifer was second in line…

As we stood waiting for the polls to open, the line steadily grew behind us…

Genifer got to cast her vote. And we were over at Sidewinder to get coffee by 6:45am…

Sidewinder had cinnamon rolls this morning too…

My office was closed today for the election so everyone could vote. And Genifer had a pretty light day with her work. So later, we walked back down Hamilton Avenue to Blue Jay for lunch…

Genifer had a five-way and fries for lunch…

And I had Blue Jay’s chicken tender sammich with cheese…

I love that dang sammich. Blue Jay is so good. We don’t eat there enough.

We enjoyed the rest of our Election Day by not doing much of anything. We played in our backyard for a bit…

And we went on our evening walk around the block…

Good evening from Northside…

For dinner, I ate a carry out five-way and a cheese coney I got from Blue Jay…

This evening we went out of our way to avoid any news about the Election. I don’t think we’re going to know the final results any time soon. I just hope everything turns out for the best and that competent adults start running the country again. 😀🌄🗳️☕️🍝🌭❤️

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by Thadd F. on November 3, 2020 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on November 3, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/11/03/election-day/

A Monday without rain?

This is the first Monday in a while that it hasn’t been rainy and grey…

It was actually a very pretty morning…

Good morning from Northside…

I made myself a buffalo chicken grilled cheese for lunch…

It kind of annoying how it gets dark so early now…

Good evening from Northside…

We got to bed early tonight because we’re going to get up early to try tomorrow morning to vote. Other than that, it was just another Monday. 😀🌄🐔🥪❤️

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by Thadd F. on November 2, 2020 • Permalink

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Tagged 2020, Buffalo Chicken grilled cheese, Cincinnati, Clouds, Good evening, Good morning, Home, Home Sweet Home, Look up in the sky, Northside, Nov2, November, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted

Posted by Thadd F. on November 2, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/11/02/a-monday-without-rain/

An extra hour of Sunday.

It’s hard to believe that today is November 1st…

It was pretty nice getting an extra hour of sleep this morning…

Good morning from Northside with an extra hour later…

This morning we made these pillsbury Chocolate Chip Sweet Biscuits for breakfast…

They’d become somewhat of a running joke. Every time we were at the grocery, I’d point them out to Genfiier and ask if she wanted to get them. She’s always say no. And I just kept asking every trip for months. Finally the last time we were at the grocery, they were on sale. I put them in our cart and here we are…

They were pretty good. They were remarkably similar to the Pillbury cinnamon rolls. Since the oven was already warm, Genifer made some Snoopy cookies too…

Of course, I focus on the one cookie that’s upside-down. And we learned how to draw Snoopy heads…

And then we just hung out for the rest of the afternoon…

Good evening from Northside…

We had spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Before dust cheese…

After dust cheese…

After dust cheese with garlic bread…

Gosh. I love spaghetti and meatballs with dust cheese and garlic bread.

We went back out in the backyard to play some more…

After we eat dinner and go outside, we give the dogs their evening treat of a couple of hot dogs chunks so Mack can get his allergy medicine…

Hot dogs might just be the favorite part of Mack’s day.

And I captured this horrible photo of tonight’s full moon…

Any time you can get an extra hour of Sunday, it’s a good thing.

Having just watched Maleficent on Friday night, we watched Maleficent 2 tonight. It was another pretty good movie. 😀🌄⏰🍪🍝📺❤️

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by Thadd F. on November 1, 2020 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on November 1, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/11/01/an-extra-hour-of-sunday/

My new Wyze Band.

My Fitbit Charge3 has been acting up lately and slowly dying. The screen has been gradually fading from the center out, making it impossible to read the time or any of the other information the watch provides…

I contacted Fitbit about this. Their response was to offer me 35% off the purchase of a Fitbit because my Charge 3 was first activated in December of 2018. And it seems that the Fitbit’s limited warranty, which covers the device for one year, has expired. Even with their discount, a new Fitbit would be over $90. It’s seems like a lot of money for something that doesn’t even last two years.

We like our $20 WyzeCams so I decided to try their Wyze Band instead…

The Wyze Band is just $24.99. That sounds like a much better value to me….

After setting up my Wyze Band and playing with it for a while. It doesn’t everything my Fitbit used to do. So I’ll be seeing you, overpriced Fitbit.

Thanks, Wyze! You’ve done it again! 😀⌚️❤️

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by Thadd F. on November 1, 2020 • Permalink

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Tagged 2020, Cincinnati, Fitbit Charge3, Home, Home Sweet Home, Northside, Nov1, November, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted, Wyze Band, WyzeCam

Posted by Thadd F. on November 1, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/11/01/my-new-wyze-band/

Well… Hello, November.

It’s funny because it’s so true. Everything was going along just swimmingly and then, BAM! Hello, November. I really can’t believe it’s already November. This year has been so messed up.

I really love Milk & Mocha bear. 😀🐻🗓️❤️

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by Thadd F. on November 1, 2020 • Permalink

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Tagged 2020, Cincinnati, Ffffound, Milk & Mocha Bear, Northside, Nov1, November, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted

Posted by Thadd F. on November 1, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/11/01/well-hello-november/

Don’t forget.

Don’t forget to change your clocks back and don’t forget to vote! 😀🕑🗳️❤️

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by Thadd F. on November 1, 2020 • Permalink

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Tagged 2020, Cincinnati, Election 2020, Ffffound, Home, Home Sweet Home, I voted, Northside, Nov1, November, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Presidential election, Seen and noted, Vote, VOTE!

Posted by Thadd F. on November 1, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/11/01/dont-forget/

Our Halloween.

Halloween should’ve been perfect this year. It fell on a Saturday, with a full moon and with daylight savings time everyone got an extra hour of sleep the next day. But unfortunately, 2020 had other ideas.

Halloween got off to a very frosty start…

Good morning from Northside…

And for the first time this fall, we had to scrape our windows this morning…

After the windows defrosted, we ran over to the grocery…

And then it was on to Mad Llama for Saturday morning Halloween coffee…

After Michigan State shocked Michigan, we rolled over to Taft’s Brewpourium for a delicious pizza dinner…

As we were walking across the parking lot, a train was rolling by…

Taft’s had a Halloween special this weekend…

We had a Maple vs Amburana double imperial stout before we ordered….

While we drank our beer, we watched our street view WyzeCam to see if there were many trick-or-treaters out and about…

And it looked like there were a few on our street…

There’s our cotton candy….

And there’s our pizzas…

After we devoured our delicious pizza, we took the dogs on a walk and couldn’t help but admire the Halloween full moon…

Good evening from Northside…

All things considered, we had a pretty good Halloween. 😀🌄🍕🎃❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 31, 2020 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on October 31, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/31/our-halloween/

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from Milk & Mocha Bear and Brown & Cony Life. 😀🐻🐰🎃❤️

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by Thadd F. on October 31, 2020 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on October 31, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/10/31/happy-halloween-5/

Happy Halloween Eve.

Tomorrow is Halloween. There will still be trick-or-treating but still, it just won’t be the same with the COVID raging, will it? Who would have thought that all the way back in the middle of March that the number of pandemic cases would be still be accerlating eight months later at Halloween?

But at least it’s Friday…

And guess what, it’s also still grey and overcast. So, yeah.

Good morning from Northside…

Genifer made some delicious cookies…

The blue skies were trying to peek through the clouds…

Good evening from Northside…

We ate oven pizzas for dinner…

The skies were starting to clear…

Maybe it’ll actually be nice for Halloween tomorrow…

Tonight, we watched Maleficent on Disney+. It’s hard to believe that we’d never seen it before. But it was really good. It was great way to wind down our Halloween Eve.