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Two vastly different Saturday nights.

They wore me down. I tried my best to resist. But this evening, I gave in to temptation. I got Taco Bell in Northside for the second time. I finally tried those Nacho Cheese Fries that seemed to be in every other commercial during the basketball tournament…

The fries were a bit disappointing. They weren’t bad. But they also weren’t anything all that special. Just some average fries with nacho cheese for dipping. I wasn’t expecting much from anything that only costs a dollar at Taco Bell. But the chalupas were every bit as good as I remembered them…

After inhaling a couple of chalupas and finishing my nacho fries, I hung out with the pups and just watched basketball for the rest of the evening…

Meanwhile, Genifer had a girl’s night. And went out for drinks with our friend, Tayler…

They went to The Hamilton, Bistro Grace and finished up at Higher Gravity…

Michigan advanced to the Final Four after surviving their Elite Eight matchup against Florida State, 58-54. We both had very different but very fun evenings. 😀🌮🐶🏀🍸❤️

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by Thadd F. on March 24, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #SPRINGinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2018, Bistro Grace, Cincinnati, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, Home Sweet Home, March, Nacho Cheese Fries, Northside, Ohio, Pause for paws, Shaken not stirred, Taco Bell, The Hamilton, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on March 24, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/03/24/two-vastly-different-saturday-nights/

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY! We walked across Northside to Boswell’s late this afternoon…

We met up our friends Chris and Tayler at Boswell’s. Genifer and I shared some delicious Bos Bites smothered in Bos sauce…

Genifer had a Super Grill and I had a Reuben. Both were delicious. Genifer’s green was her Golden Girls Sophia pin…

From Boswell’s, we walked over to Higher Gravity…

And there were some Irish Car Bombs…

We watched our FC Cincinnati win their first game of the 2018 season 1-0 away to Charleston Battery. We ended up hanging out at Higher Gravity to watch Michigan’s miraculous madness last-second 64-63 win over Houston to advance Michigan to the Sweet Sixteen. After the game, Michigan head coach John Beilein’s locker antics were pretty awesome. It was an amazing ending to a great day…

Yep. It was a pretty great St. Patrick’s Day! 😀🍀🍻❤️

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by Thadd F. on March 17, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends, Sports

Tagged 2018, Boswell's Alley, Cincinnati, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, Holidays, March, Northside, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted, Shaken not stirred, St. Patrick's Day, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on March 17, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day-3/

Physical therapy x Higher Gravity.

I had my first session of physical therapy for my hip this evening…

It went pretty good. It wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. But then again, nothing about this entire hip replacement process has been as bad as I thought it would be. Not even close. At all. I thought every step of this process was going to be far more grueling and painful than it’s actually turned out to be. So in my mind, I either really overexaggerated how horrible an experience I thought this would be and braced for the worst possible scenario at each and every step of this process, or this has been a study in the best possible case scenario for a complete hip replacement. At the end of June, I’ll be having my left hip replaced. It’ll be interesting to see how that experience compares to this experience. I hope it’s very much the same, an identical experience or an even better experience than what I am working through right now. Because this really hasn’t been that bad at all.

Anyway. After my first physical therapy session, we stopped at Higher Gravity for a beer. We hadn’t been to HG for almost three weeks. The last time we were there was to watch Xavier knock off Georgetown in OT back at the beginning of February…

We stopped in tonight because we wanted to try #11, the Hawaiian Speedway Stout…

And it was awesome! It was also awesome to be able to get out of the house and do something again…

Only 10 more physical therapies to go! 😀🍻❤️

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by Thadd F. on February 23, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2018, Cincinnati, February, Happiest hours, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, Northside, Ohio, Physical Therapy, Seen and noted, Shaken not stirred

Posted by Thadd F. on February 23, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/02/23/physical-therapy-x-higher-gravity/

Northside nubs.

There were a bunch of people out sledding on the hill at the end of our street…

We need to get some sleds for the next time it snows because it looked like a bunch of fun. Later, we went down to Higher Gravity to watch the Eagles take on the Falcons. And then we got just home in time to watch the Patriots thump the Titans. It was a pretty low-key day but another pretty fun Saturday in Northside. 😀🛷🏈🍺❤️

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by Thadd F. on January 13, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2018, Cincinnati, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, Home Sweet Home, January, NFL, Northside, Northside nubs, Ohio, Sledding, Snow, Winter, Winter wonderland

Posted by Thadd F. on January 13, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/01/13/northside-nubs-10/

Wild Card weekend.

We went down to Higher Gravity to watch the Titans versus Chiefs Wild Card football game with our friends Chris and Tayler. They are big Chiefs fans. It was a pretty good game but unfortunately, the Chiefs managed to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. While we were watching the game, we shared this ridiculously huge 22-inch pepperoni pizza from Chameleon…

It was a really, really good pie. After the game, Wild Card weekend started to get a bit wild. There were some consolation shots…

And after that, there was a contest between shotgunning versus chugging a beer…

We always have a really good time at Higher Gravity. And Northside has some of the best pizza around. 🏈🍕🍻❤️

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by Thadd F. on January 6, 2018 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2018, Chameleon Pizza, Cincinnati, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, January, NFL, Northside, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted, Shaken not stirred, Wild Card weekend

Posted by Thadd F. on January 6, 2018

https://tplusg.com/2018/01/06/wild-card-weekend/

NYE at Higher Gravity.

We went to one of our favorite Northside watering holes, Higher Gravity to celebrate New Year’s Eve…

We met up with our friends Chris and Tayler and moved into this little alcove…

We brought a bunch of little poppers with us…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It was a really great New Year’s Eve! 😀🥂🍾❤️

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by Thadd F. on December 31, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2017, Celebration, Cincinnati, December, Happy New Year, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, Holidays, Northside, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Shaken not stirred

Posted by Thadd F. on December 31, 2017

https://tplusg.com/2017/12/31/nye-at-higher-gravity/

Higher Gravity minus Meet the Brewery.

We didn’t realize there wasn’t a Meet the Brewery tonight at Higher Gravity. But since we were there, we decided to have a couple of beers anyway…

I tried an Esther’s Li’l Secret Winter White Ale with chocolate and vanilla cream from Warped Wing in Dayton…

It reminded me a lot of the Sonoran White Chocolate Ale we tried when we were out in Phoenix for Spring Training. It was pretty good stuff. 😀🍺❤️

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by Thadd F. on December 28, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2017, Cincinnati, December, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, Home Sweet Home, Northside, Ohio, Shaken not stirred

Posted by Thadd F. on December 28, 2017

https://tplusg.com/2017/12/28/higher-gravity-minus-meet-the-brewery/

Higher Gravity Christmas Eve.

We stopped in for a drink at Higher Gravity to watch the second half of the Bengals game. We tried a Claus from Braxton Brewing Company…

And the Bengals got thumped by the Vikings but the beers were delicious! 😀🍺❤️

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by Thadd F. on December 24, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Northside, Odd & Ends

Tagged 2017, Christmas Eve, Cincinnati, December, Higher Gravity Crafthaus, Holidays, Northside, Ohio, Shaken not stirred

Posted by Thadd F. on December 24, 2017

https://tplusg.com/2017/12/24/higher-gravity-christmas-eve/

Northside Thursday.

This evening we walked down Hamilton Avenue to have dinner at Melt Eclectic Cafe…

Tonight, Melt had a special beer cheese appetizer made with Rhinegheist Truth…

And it was just, WOW! It was some of the best beer cheese I’ve ever had. It came with triangles of pita bread and pickled jalapenos for dipping. It was really outstanding. We also shared one of our favorite Melt sammiches, The Rachel and we also shared a house-made orange cupcake with buttercream frosting…

After dinner, we stopped into Higher Gravity. They were having another one of their Meet the Brewery. This time it was Alltech Lexington Brewing & Distilling Company, makers of Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale. In addition to tasting a selection of Alltech beers, there was also an ugly sweater contest and an Alltech coloring contest. So we did some coloring while we sampled some beers…

And here’s our finished Santa…

Coloring was a lot of fun. And we actually won the coloring contest! We took home an Alltech Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale prize pack with a t-shirt, hat, candle, koozies and giant KBBA sticker…