We had Genifer’s family over for a Spring Fling party to celebrate a bunch of March and April birthdays. It was a great evening filled with family, fun and lotsa food…

We had Genifer’s family over for a Spring Fling party to celebrate a bunch of March and April birthdays. It was a great evening filled with family, fun and lotsa food…

Posted by Thadd F. on April 8, 2017
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We mowed our little backyard for the first time this spring…


And then we sat out on our back patio and watched the sunset…

It was another very pretty evening in Northside. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 7, 2017
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Taken with Instagram. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 6, 2017
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YUM! I had Skyline for lunch today. Taken with Instagram. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 6, 2017
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Today is National Walking Day! Even though the forecast called for lotsa rain, I really couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate than taking a walk down to Great American Ball Park for Reds Opening Night 2017! We parked by Lytle Park and walked down to the game…


I’ve been to every single Opening Night since 2010, and Genifer and I have been to every Opening Night together since 2012…





One of GABP’s new fatures this year is the Teppanyaki Grill featuring a $15 Bahn Mi sammich and a $20 Lobster Tail. Lobster Tail is baseball food right?


Also new is a Cheetos Popcorn stand. You can have Cheetos right in your popcorn…

The Fox Sports Ohio condominium was packed…




Another new food offering is Keystone mac & cheese…












A rainbow started to appear on the other side of the river…















Votto went yard to give the Reds a 1-0 lead…

Then Adam Duvall doubled. And Zack Cozart singled in DuvAll-Star to give the Reds a 2-0 lead. The Reds Brandon Finnegan tossed 7 innings of 1 hit ball with 9 Ks…

Michael Lorenzen came into the game to get us strikeout number 10…


And NUMBER 11!

AND THAT MEANS…




Raisel Iglesias came in to pitch the ninth and try to seal the deal for the Reds…


And this one belongs to the…




The final out of the game was a Philly getting caught stealing at second. But then the play was reviewed and the runner was called safe at second…

But it just gave Rasiel Igelsias the chance to notch another strikeout instead. BOOM!
AND THIS ONE BELONGS TO THE REDS!



What an incredible Reds Opening Night! The Reds won, Brandon Finnegan tossed seven fierce innings giving up just 1 hit with 9 Ks, Votto went yard, we get free Larosas pizza from the Reds 13 Ks, we got a free Reds 2017-18 calendar, the rain stayed away from the most part and we saw a rainbow! That’s what I call a great Opening Night!
⛈⚾❤🍕🍕🌧🌈👍💯 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 5, 2017
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I met Genifer at Northside’s Hoffner Park this evening so we could walk over to Urban Artifact to try their latest creation, Squeezebox Strawberry Sour Bomb…

We hadn’t been to Urban Artifact in a minute so we got a flight to try some of the new stuff they had on tap today…

From left to right, we tried Squeezebox Strawberry Sour Bomb, Letterbox Dark Tropical Ale, Peanut Butter Sliderule Chocolate Raspberry Gose and Skep Honey Nut Muffin Ale. Here is everything Urban Artifact had on tap this evening…


All of them were really amazing but Squeezebox was the clear standout. It was like sucking on one of those little strawberry hard candies…

Urban Artifact also created four Squeezebox variants in 500ml bomber bottles…

There’s a Chocolate Strawberry Squeezebox, Spicy Margarita Squeezebox, Strawberry Margarita Squeezebox and Lemon Basil Sorbet Squeezebox. Walking home, the door to their production facility was open and we could see all the stacks and stacks of cans…

It was a very pretty evening walking home…

And now our refrigerator has some new friends…

But not for too long. We sat out on our back patio when we got home and shared the lemon basil sorbet Squeezebox. And it was just outstanding! Sooo good. I hope our whole #SPRINGinCINCY can taste like Strawberry Squeezebox…

Have we ever mentioned we love living in Northside? 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 4, 2017
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Whenever the Cincinnati Cyclones score five goals and win, you have five three days to exchange your ticket for a free Donatos one topping pizza. After work this evening,
I picked up our free Donatos pizzas from Saturday’s 5-3 Cyclones win over the Toledo Walleye. I also picked up a large pepperoni pizza because the more the merrier, and every piece is important. I managed to get all three of them home on the bus without eating any of them…

And then it was finally time to eat free pizza…

Free pizza sure is delicious! A super big thanks to Donatos and our Cyclones for our free pizza pies! It was a terrific way to end a great regular season of Cyclones hockey! 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 3, 2017
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I designed this Opening Day graphic to hang in our front windows at work…



And I had my #CapsOn for Opening Day…

I wore one of my favorite Reds ballcaps for #CapsOn Opening Day. I won this hat in a giveaway from Skyline. It’s one of my favorite caps because it has two of my favorite Cincinnati things embroidered on it, Reds and Skyline…



Baseball is back! We can’t wait for Opening Night! ❤⚾❤
Posted by Thadd F. on April 3, 2017
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It was really pretty outside this evening so walked over to Northside Yacht Club…




We shared the chef’s special fried chicken sammich and buffalo cauliflower bites…


Even sharing, we ordered way too much food. But it sure was delicious!

We love our wonderful selection of bars and restaurants in Northisde. 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 2, 2017
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No foolin’ around. Today was our 11th Cyclones hockey game of the season. And it was also the final home game for the Cyclones 2016-17 regular season…

It was fan appreciation weekend and that meant there was a really big crowd on hand for today’s game, almost 8,600. Even the upper bowl of US Bank Arena was open…










LET’S PLAY HOCKEY!


At the end of the first period, the Cyclones were leading 2-0 over the Toledo Walleye…


❤❤❤During today’s hockey game, we were on Kiss Cam at US Bank Arena!❤❤❤

And the end of the second period, the game was all knotted at two…

In between the second and third periods, there was Full Throttle go-kart racing on the ice of US Bank Arena…

The Cyclones jumped out to a 4-2 lead in the third period…


Make that 5-2!

Now they just had to hang in there for a little over three minutes…

Because with the win, their five goals tonight would mean free pizza for everybody!




AND THE CYCLONES WON 5-3!!! FREE PIZZA!!!






We stuck around for a post-game warmup jersey auction but the prices were insane…

What a great note to end the Cyclones regular season on at US Bank Arena; getting the big 5-3 win, and getting everyone free pizza to boot. It was our second game of the season where the Cyclones were able to get us free pizzas. And that’s two more free pizzas than we got from the 15 Reds games we went to all of last baseball season.
The Cyclones still have a pretty good chance of making the ECHL playoffs. Who knows? Maybe we’ll get to see our Cyclones a couple more times yet this season. But if not, it was another great season of Cyclones hockey, and we definitely look forward to seeing them play again in October.
GO CYCLONES! 🙂
Posted by Thadd F. on April 1, 2017
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