These photos of Oscar popped up in my Timehop…




He was so cute and so fuzzy in these photos. Thanks for the memories, Timehop. ๐๐ฆ๐พโค๏ธ
These photos of Oscar popped up in my Timehop…




He was so cute and so fuzzy in these photos. Thanks for the memories, Timehop. ๐๐ฆ๐พโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on October 5, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/10/05/tbt-pause-for-paws-59/
Good morning from Northside…


We were so lazy today. We laid around all morning. Finally, we started to get hungry and ventured out of the house. On our way to get lunch, we stopped to get gas in Finneytown…

And there was this sticker on our pump…

And then it was onto the Home of the Whopper. We ordered a BK feast through the Burger King App…



Usually, Burger King is reserved only for road trips. But it just sounded really good today. And we ordered a bunch so we’d have snack for later.
I’m just going to leave these scores here without comment…

๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฒ What makes it even more nuts is when you combine today’s Liverpool and United results with last weekend’s thumping of City by Leicester…

It brings me great joy whenever United or Liverpool lose. And to have them both great thumped on the same day, just makes for a really great Sunday. Now I have a couple of matches to go back and watch to see just what the heck happened.
Good evening from Northside…






And we finished our Sunday with ball in our backyard until it got too dark…

We had a very nice, lazy and relaxing Sunday. ๐๐๐๐๐บโฝ๏ธโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on October 4, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/10/04/burger-king-and-a-shocker/


Good morning from Northside…



Since they’re finally done working on our street, we moved our stones and bricks back to their original place in our front yard…

I think we’re going to come out of the water main replacement on our street with only losing a couple of flowers. And that’s really not too bad.
And after our fun afternoon, good evening from Northside…



My Minnesota United was playing FC Cincinnati tonight at Minnesota. Apparently even with the pandemic, a ban on spectators at the matches AND the match being played all the way in Minnesota, FC Cincinnati matches are still blacked out on ESPN+…

Come to find out that thankfully, you can actually stream the FC|C matches through YouTubeTV now…

Minnesota United knocked off FC Cincy 2-0. And Louisville City neat Swope Park Rangers 2-1. It was a great way to end a really fun day. ๐๐๐บโฝ๏ธโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on October 3, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/10/03/hello-from-northside-18/
The trees colors are starting to change up on top of the hill at the end of our street…



Good morning from Northside…


We walked to Sidewinder to get Friday morning coffee…



And good evening from Northside…


We had delicious ramen noodles for dinner tonight…

We’ve been working on staining our new backyard fence…


It turns out I’m not very good at painting at all…





Thank goodness it’s Friday. ๐๐โ๏ธ๐โค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on October 2, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/10/02/im-really-bad-at-painting/
It’s pretty crazy to me that today is the first day of October…


For still being in the middle of a global pandemic, stuck at home and not really being able to do much of anything, this year certainly has flown right by. I would like my 2020 back, please. I think we should all get to take a mulligan for this year and get to try 2020 over again next year.
They weren’t working on our street this morning. So we got to go back up to the top of the hill at the end of our street and say…
Good morning from Northside!



This is what the street looked like in front of our house this morning…

But a little while later, they filled it in with asphalt…

And good evening from Northside…


We ordered hoagie sammiches from NYPD…


And after we stuffed our faces full of delicious NYPD hoagie sammiches and french fries, we played ball in our backyard and we watched the beautiful sunset clouds….



It’s just really nuts that it’s already October. ๐๐๐ฅช๐โค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on October 1, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/10/01/hello-october-2/
It ended up being another grey and overcast day today but just like yesterday, the clouds were so pretty. This morning, this evening, and later from our backyard…



Good evening from Northside…






And Genifer made this terrific cheesy turkey, sweet potato, and spinach skillet bake for dinner tonight…

It was so delicious. She always finds the best recipes to make. Other than that, it was just another Wednesday. I’m ready for this week to be over. And I really can’t wait until they’re finally done working on the water main on our street so we can go back up to the top of the hill at the end of our street in the mornings. ๐๐โ๏ธ๐ฅ๏ธโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on September 30, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/09/30/hello-from-northside-17/
Seven years ago, the Reds lost in the NL Wild Card game to the Pirates…

We didn’t walk the dogs up to the top of the hill at the end of our street this morning. They were working on the end of our street at the bottom of the hill so we went the other way.
Usually, during the day there is one dog on each floor. Oscar hangs out on the first floor most of the time. Mainly because he refuses to go up and down the stairs. So he’ll hang out on whatever floor you put him on…

Bear hangs out with me in the studio on our second floor. He sits behind me while I’m working during the day. But he follows me wherever I go. He’s like my fuzzy shadow…

And Mack sleeps pretty much wherever he likes…


He hangs out on the third floor a lot. Or he also likes sleeping in the front bedroom on the second floor.
This afternoon they poured the concrete out in front of our house to replace our sidewalk. And as soon as they were done and moved on down the block, I went out to write our initials in the concrete…

I’ve never had the opportunity to write anything in concrete before. They smoothed it over once. But I went back out to rewrite our initials…





Later this evening, we slowed down to grill…




As soon as we got inside with all of our delicious grilled food, it started raining. And when we went to take the dog on their walk after we finished eating, there was a beautiful rainbow up at the top of the hill at the end of our street…






Good evening from Northside…





And good evening from our backyard…




It was a really good Tuesday, as far as Tuesdays go. ๐๐โ๏ธ๐๐พโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on September 29, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/09/29/tg-forever-in-concrete/
My photos on Google Maps/Local Guides just passed 47.5 million viewsโฆ

It’s pretty crazy because just two days ago my photos on Google Maps hit the 45 million view milestone. That’s 2.5 million views in two days. Nutty.
Thanks for giving me another way to share my photos, Google! And Iโm almost to level 9 local guide on Google Maps. I just keep working hard on my Google Maps contributions. #LetsGuide ๐๐บ๏ธ๐ทโค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on September 29, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/09/29/over-47-5-million-views/
The clouds were really pretty when we woke up this morning…



But it was getting pretty gray when we were taking the dogs on their walk…



Good morning from Northside…

They were working on our street again this morning…

I’ve really enjoyed watching all the machines from our WyzeCams…



We had another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals for dinner tonight. We had the Stroganoff Pork Meatballs with potatoes and peas againโฆ

The stroganoff sauce was so good we had to have this meal again. And it was another really delicious dinner the second time around. We really like the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kits a lot.
It was sprinkling a little bit as we took the dogs around the block…


Good evening from Northside…



The sky was really pretty this evening…

It was a really beautiful blue-gray.
And the sunset was even prettier from our backyard…



It was just a day of very pretty skies. ๐๐โ๏ธโค๏ธ
We watched Enola Holmes on Netflix tonight. It was cute and pretty good.
Posted by Thadd F. on September 28, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/09/28/a-day-of-pretty-skies/

I had five fantasy baseball teams competing in ESPN head-to-head points leagues. To be honest, I had a really hard time getting into fantasy baseball this season. I neglected my teams a lot and had a hard time remembering to update them. Four of my teams didn’t do very well. But even with all my neglect, my Whipty Dips finished 5-2 on the season…

They actually made the playoffs in the winner’s bracketโฆ

And come to find out, they actually won their league…


So I earned myself another fantasy baseball championship…

Fantasy baseball is still pretty fun. ๐โพ๏ธ๐โค๏ธ
Posted by Thadd F. on September 28, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/09/28/fantasy-baseball-2020/