One year ago, we were just figuring out how to work from home…
Fast forward a year, and I’ve really fine tuned my little work space…
I have my little set-up down pat. It’s a pretty functional space. It’s going to be really hard to go back to working in an office. Thankfully, it sounds like it’s still going to be a while until we have to go back to commuting to an office. They are projecting a return in September at the earliest now. 😀🏡💻❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on April 23, 2021
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Good morning from Northside…
The Cintas Center has become a COVID-19 mass vaccination site…
And this afternoon we had appointments to get our COVID-19 vaccination…
The whole thing took about an hour…
And now we’ve been vaccinated!
Good evening from Northside…
We were feeling a bit achy and tired after our shots. After we walked the dogs, we just went upstairs and watched TV in bed for the rest of the evening. So it was just kind of like any other night.
Here’s a photo of Milan from 10 years ago…
😀🌄🦠💉🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on April 7, 2021
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One year ago, we went to Taft’s Brewpourium for the last time before every thing went into COVID-19 lockdown…
😀🌄♥️
Posted by Thadd F. on March 15, 2021
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Good morning from Northside…
This afternoon we worked on reorganizing our basement…
Now we just need more shelves. And we finally got to turn on our new super industrial strength dehumidifier…
If we turned the dehumidifier in too soon, it could have pulled the moisture out the setting concrete and it wouldn’t have cured correctly…
And that would probably have been bad…
But omigosh, I was so excited to finally get to turn this thing on. And it drains straight into our new sump pump. It’s all so excited. We’re hoping the dehumidifier pulls all the moisture out of the air in our basement and eliminates that old musty basement smell. But we finally get to see how it works.
Later, we ventured out to West Chester, and we picked up Sonic for lunch…
We took our Sonic over and had lunch with Geri. Sonic was surprisingly good. We had cheeseburger meals. And Sonic also has corn dogs. I got a couple of corn dogs for a snack later. Gosh, I love corn dogs. And corn dongs can be surprisingly hard to find. The corn dogs from Sonic were really good.
Back in Northside, it’s starting to look a bit like autumn…
It was so gloomy, grey and overcast all day today…
And good evening from Northside…
This evening we planned to watch my Minnesota United play Dallas but the match was postponed due to positive tests for COVID-19. So we watched FC Cincinnati lose 1-0 to Toronto instead. FC|C is really tough to watch play anymore. It seems all they do is defend, eleven guys behind the ball and then park the bus. It makes for really boring soccer. And I’m really surprised they could pull over seven minutes of highlights out of this match.
But other than that, it was a pretty good Sunday. 😀🌄☁️💧🍔🍟🍃⚽️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 11, 2020
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A new taco shop just opened up in Northside called Taqueria 251. And this afternoon we walked down Hamilton Avenue to check it out the new place in the neighborhood…
I’m digging their murals…
Taqueria 251 was still waiting for their liquor license…
We sat out on their very spacious patio…
We started with some chips and salsa…
The trio of salsas came in these half-full little squeeze bottles…
We thought it was kind of an odd presentation. Especially in the middle of a pandemic. But the salsas were all pretty good. The green was the mild and the one on the right was really spicy. The middle one was my favorite. But they all had really good flavors.
We ordered the Esquite as an appetizer. The Esquite is sweet corn cut off the cob brought to the table in a cup served with a side of spicy mayo, cotija cheese, Mexican cream, tajin and lime. And it’s all mixed right at the table…
And as soon as our Esquite was prepared, our tacos arrived…
We ordered the Al Pastor, Papa and Chicharron…
We also ordered the Gringa with the cheese crust…
The tacos were just okay. They were really just meat on a tortilla. The meats were really flavorful but a little dry. The Gringa was good. I enjoyed the cheese crust. The Papa was my favorite because it actually had a crema and cotija cheese on it. The Esquite was so dang good. It was the best thing I’ve eaten in a minute. The flavors were just amazing.
We also ordered their churros because I love churros and they don’t show up on a lot of menus. So we almost had to order them…
The churros were amazing too. They were served with a side of nutella, goats milk candy, condensed milk and sugar and cinnamon blend…
The Esquite and the churros were out-of-this-world incredibly good. I would definitely stop back at Taqueira 251 just for those two items, and maybe a Papa taco. It was pretty tasty too.
It’s always fun when a new place opens up in our neighborhood. 😀🇲🇽🌮❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 10, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/10/10/taqueria-251/
Three years ago, we were at our 257th Reds baseball game at Great American Ball Park, give or take a game or two…
Our plan for this summer was to drop FC Cincinnati entirely and go to many more Reds baseball games. We’ve just gone off FC|C completely. We enjoy the Reds games so much more than the soccer matches. GABP is my happy place. And I really missed going to baseball games this summer.
Of course, that plan never materialized. So thanks for that, COVID-19.
Hopefully, next summer. Thanks for the memories, Timehop. 😐🦕⚾️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 24, 2020
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Good morning from Northside…
Mack usually hangs out with me in our office while I’m working but today he wandered off. And I found sleeping in my spot on our bed…
When were out on our walk this evening, we saw this yard sign…
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati is traditionally the nation’s largest Oktoberfest and the second largest in the world to the original Oktoberfest in Munich. And apparently even with COVID-19 this year, Oktoberfest Zinzinnati is still taking place around town at favorite Cincinnati eateries and pubs and In Za House at home…
Good evening from Northside….
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati In Za Haus will enable Oktoberfest lovers to get their German on at home by ordering do-it-yourself Oktoberfest Zinzinnati Zelebration Packs. This year’s mostly virtual Oktoberfest starts today and runs through next Saturday, September 27th. PROST!
And good night from our backyard…
Thank goodness, it’s Friday. 😀🌄🥨❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 18, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/09/18/oktoberfest-in-za-house/
Good morning from Northside…
We ran over to the grocery store to get some groceries for the week…
How adorable were these buttons?
If they would have been magnets, they would be home with us right now. And this llama pillow was pretty cute…
There were some good balloons today too. I got five on it with some stars…
There were a lot of Back-to-School balloons because it’s about that time….
And without a hint of irony, the Back-to-School balloons were right next to the Get Well Soon balloons…
There should have been a promotion, Buy any Back-to-School balloon, get one, Get Well Soon balloon for free.” Ugh. It’s hard to believe that the pandemic has been raging for six months now, and nothing’s getting any better. And speaking of the pandemic when we were done at the grocery, we ran into Target…
While we were at Target, I got an eye exam…
If you remember a while back, I cracked my glasses right in two. I’ve been going without glasses for a minute. And today, I ended up getting two new pairs. One near-sighted pair with blue light filter for working on my computer and one far-sighted pair for driving and watching movies. Both of them compensate for my pretty considerable astigmatism. I’m so excited for my new glasses. They’ll be ready in a couple of weeks. The best part is that between my insurance and health savings account that both pairs of glasses cost me a grand total of $10. How cool is that? And I also got this new little bluetooth speaker…
It has a really good, full sound. Also full was my belly after eating a BLT with turkey bacon and Canadian Bacon for lunch…
It looked like it was raining off in the distance…
And good evening from Northside…
This evening I trimmed the grass in our little front yard…
And our little front yard flowers are really flourishing…
And of course, we played some ball in our backyard…
Mack was waiting for us upstairs at the top of the steps…
When we got upstairs, we watched the Grizzlies lose the the 8/9 play-in game to the trailblazers in the NBA bubble. It was a really good game. I love the Griz but I think the Blazers will give the Lakers more problems. And it was be awesome if the Lakers got knocked out of the playoffs.
We also watched Louisville City beat Loudoun 2-0.
It was a pretty darn good Saturday. I can’t wait for my glasses. 😀🗓️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 15, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/08/15/a-darn-good-saturday/
This morning I tallied my 79000th check-in on my Swarm…
I still really like my check-ins on Swarm! 😀⭐️❤️
But I think I’m going to be done with Swarm when I hit 80,000 check-ins, if not sooner. They made some changes to the app because of COVID-19 and it’s just not nearly as much fun anymore. We’ve had a good run Swarm.
Posted by Thadd F. on August 12, 2020
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It was a really pretty Saturday morning…
Hello moon…
Good morning from Northside…
Our replacement hose showed up and it works great with no leaks…
And then we went to Kroger for groceries…
Kroger had some adorable balloons today…
And afterward, we stopped at Mad Llama for some Saturday morning coffee…
There was train crossing over the road on our way home…
We mowed the weeds in our backyard…
Three weeks until our fence gets replaced and then we can start working on making our backyard look more respectable…
We got this delicious fruit at the grocery…
Good evening from Northside…
We played ball in our backyard for another half hour…
Those dogs play ball until they can’t play ball anymore…
Mack wandered off in the middle of the night. And I found him on our office WyzeCam all crashed out in the office…
And this photo of Oscar was in my Timehop…
We had a really good Saturday.
Posted by Thadd F. on August 8, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/08/08/a-really-good-saturday-2/
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