Good morning from Northside…
We got lunch from NYPD…
I forgot to take a photo of our lunch. I think we ordered hoagie sammiches.
Good evening from Northside…
And we watched Minnesota United beat Houston 2-0…
And then we watched the last full day of the Olympics. It’s hard to believe they’re almost over already. But we sure have enjoyed watching them.
And we just had a pretty low-key Saturday. 😀🌄🥪🍟📺⚽️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on August 7, 2021
https://tplusg.com/2021/08/07/we-had-a-pretty-low-key-saturday/
Today is July 1st! Happy 7-1 to all that celebrate…
It was another rainy morning…
On our walk this morning, we only made it to the stop sign at end of street…
But when we went on our walk this evening, the sun was out…
Weather. Go figure.
Good evening from Northside…
We haven’t seen very many snails on our walks so far this year…
Our third and final HelloFresh dinner of the week was Pecan & Walnut Crusted Chicken with BBQ-spiced sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts and apple…
Have we said that we really like the HelloFresh meals?
When we got upstairs, it started pouring again…
And now we have a long four-day holiday weekend…
😀🌄🐾🍽️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on July 1, 2021
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Good morning from Northside…
Good evening from Northside…
We had another HelloFresh meal for dinner. This one was Over-Ready Enchilada Chicken with southwestern rice & beans plus red pepper crema…
These meals are just amazing. I really look forward to them every night.
We watched Minnesota United beat Austin and FC Cincinnati beat Chicago…
It’s remarkable that both teams won considering had not good FC Cincinnati is still.
And there was an almost full moon tonight…
We made it through another Wednesday. 😀🌄🍽️📺⚽️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on June 23, 2021
https://tplusg.com/2021/06/23/hello-from-northside-27/
It was another cloudy, overcast, grey Monday morning…
Good morning from Northside…
Time for day 7 of my Lego City Advent Calendar…
With the exception of the mini figures, each day every little set has had a few random leftover extra pieces…
Today was pretty slow at work. It was a lot of hurry up and wait today. I was just waiting for dinner.
And fast forward through the rest of the workday to this evening. For dinner tonight, we had another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals. This meal was Garlic-Sesame Steak Noodles with snow peas and honey roasted peanuts…
And it was another really good dinner. The noodles and the garlic-seasme sauce was terrific. And I ate all the snow peas first. I just not a big fan of most steaks. It was tasty. But there was just a lot of beef. And I kept ending up with just this ball of meat in my mouth. I could have used a lot more of the noodles and snow peas and less of the steak. But it was still another super tasty meal. We like the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kits a lot.
The sky was really odd tonight. It was mostly cloudy with just this little sliver that was very bright right at the horizon. Good evening from Northside…
Later this evening was the MLS Cup Playoffs Western Conference Final between my beloved Minnesota United and Seattle Sounders…
Minnesota was a pretty sizeable underdog coming into this match…
But Minnesota really took the game to Seattle and led 1-0 at half courtesy of a golazo freekick wonderstrike by their new star player Argentine Emanuel Reynoso…
COME ON YOU LOONS! United added their second in the 67th minute on a Bakaye Dibassy header from another Reynoso freekick. The Loons were up Dos a Cero and I was on cloud nine. Sounders pulled one back in the 75th minute as they continued to turn up the pressure. 😬 And the Loons couldn’t hold on as Seattle stormed back to score two more goals, both off of corners, one in the 89th and the other at 90+4 to win the match 3-2. Crushing. Absolutely crushing.
But it was one heck of a playoff run and a tremendous season for Minnesota United. No one expected them to reach the conference finals in just their fourth season in MLS. And even though the Loons season is over, it was still a pretty darn good Monday.
😀🌄☁️🍜⚽️🏆🥲❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 7, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/12/07/come-on-you-loons/
Good morning from Northside…
I’ve been having hot chocolate almost every morning. Most of the time, it’s in one of our #TeamFiona mugs…
Once I had my cocoa, it was time for day three of my Lego City Advent Calendar…
The Lego City Advent Calendar has been pretty cool so far.
Good evening from Northside…
And tonight, we had an NYPD Pizza party!
It’s been a minute since we’ve had an NYPD Pizza party…
We ordered cheese garlic bread but they gave us an order of Nightsticks instead and they were really good…
And then we had to get upstairs…
Because tonight was the second round of the MLS Cup Playoffs. My Minnesota United was playing away to Sporting Kansas City, the top-seed in the Western Conference…
United scored three goals in twelve minutes, and knocked Sporting out of the MLS Cup playoffs of the MLS Cup Playoffs…
Minnesota United will play Seattle Sounders on Monday in the Western Conference finals…
What a match! It was an amazing end to a terrific day. But any day that includes an NYPD Pizza party and a MNUFC Loons win is a really good day on our blog. 😀🌄☕️🍕⚽️🏆❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 3, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/12/03/nypd-mnufc/
Bleh. Good morning from Northside…
When I was putting this blog post together, I had a hard time figuring out if these were photos from this morning or yesterday evening. It all just looked the same… very, very grey and awfully damp…
We ran over to Lowe’s this morning…
Lowe’s had all their Christmas stuff out in full force…
Christmas trees are silly expensive at Lowe’s…
It must be the frosted tips or maybe the lights…
We got our artificial Christmas tree for a fraction of that a couple of years ago. We found it on one of those deals and discounts websites after Christmas. And I guess we got a really good deal. I liked this wreath…
We’re thinking about replacing the carpeting in our bedroom with this embossed wood plank laminate flooring in Seaside Chestnut…
We want to remake our third floor bedroom to have a coastal cottage feel. Genifer wants to paint our bedroom. Here’s the colors she’s thinking…
And I really liked this rug…
And then we went back to Biggby for coffee…
I tried this new Biggby maple waffle breakfast sammich…
It was really good. I would definitely eat it again.
And after some football, it was good evening from Northside…
We watched my Minnesota United host their first home playoff match tonight against Colorado Rapids. Andhe Loons earned their first playoff victory with a 3-0 win over Colorado led by two goals from Kevin Molino…
Take that, Stan Kroenke.
Two years ago, we were in Dallas for Thanksgiving. And I ate the spiciest chicken sammich I have ever eaten. It was so delicious but soooo spicy…
Thanks for the memories, Timehop.
It was just a low-key weekend with all the rain. 😀🌄🌧️🎄☕️🏈⚽️🦕🐔🔥❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 22, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/11/22/and-a-rainy-sunday-too/
Dang! It was another beautiful morning…
Good morning from Northside…
And we walked down the path by the school to look at the sunrise again…
We drove over to Oakley to go to the grocery. But first, we stopped to fuel up Genifer’s Audi. The sun was just coming up over the buildings…
And then it was on to the grocery…
Kroger was completely sold out of both the panda bear and the train…
So somebody does actually buy them. I wonder if they are any good? Someday, I’ll manage to sneak them into our cart.
Kroger did have a very nice assortment of great balloons today…
With it being so close to Halloween, I almost got this Monster POP!
And then we got our Saturday morning Mad Llama coffee…
Good evening from Northside…
Genifer made a slow-cooker pot roast for dinner tonight…
I made mine into an open-faced roast beef sammich…
And it was awesome! I’d been craving a sammich like this for a whlie now.
Mack kept bringing me his football. He must really be ready to kickoff another season of Michigan football as well…
Later this evening, all my teams kicked off at exactly the same time…
On the TV, I had with my Louisville City hosting Tampa Bay Rowdies the USL Eastern Conference finals. On the iPad, I had my Minnesota United versus our FC Cincinnati. And on the iPod, I had the opener of the Michigan football season as they played away to Minnesota.
LouCity lost 2-1. MNUFC stole one from FC|C 1-0 on a late scramble in the 90+2′, and Michigan whooped Minnesota 49-24. I guess two out of three isn’t bad. Louisville had a wonderful season that included a run of 13 games unbeaten, with eight straight wins that ended with tonight’s loss. 😀🌄❤️
UPDATE: USL made the determination that the season will conclude after Tampa Bay Rowdies and Phoenix Rising FC each progressed through the playoffs to win the Eastern Conference and Western Conference titles, respectively. USL announced that the 2020 USL Championship Final will not be played after multiple persons within the clubs tested positive for COVID-19. The final was scheduled for Sunday, November 1. Tampa Bay and Phoenix will explore the possibility of a 2021 Season Kickoff game between the two clubs prior to the start of the 2021 Championship season.
Wow. A season without a champion. 2020 just keeps getting better.
Posted by Thadd F. on October 24, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/10/24/a-big-sports-saturday/
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
https://tplusg.com/2020/10/11/our-new-dehumidifier/
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. 😀🌄📺⚽️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 3, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/10/03/hello-from-northside-18/
We love our new little side yard…
And we love our backyard fence…
Good morning from Northside…
This afternoon we drove out to West Chester…
We had lunch at Dingle House…
They had a peanut butter milk stout from Left Hand that was just out of this world…
Genifer ordered Mike’s pastrami on sour dough…
I had a half-order of their fish and chips…
While we out in West Chester, we visited Geri for a bit, gathered Oscar and Bear to finally bring them back home with us and then we headed back to Northside…
Good evening from Northside…
And this evening, we watched Minnesota United draw with Houston and Louisville City thump Memphis…
It was another really good Saturday. 😀🌄🇮🇪📺⚽️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on September 19, 2020
https://tplusg.com/2020/09/19/another-good-saturday-2/
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