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BLTs & more work on our yard.

It was kind of hazy this morning…

Good morning from Northside…

We ran over to Lowe’s this morning…

We stopped for coffee…

We added some landscape edging and decorative rock border to our front yard…

When we were finishing up in our front yard, a guy jogging by stopped to ask where we got our bricks. After chatting for a minute and as he started to walk away, he said, “Yeah, I gotta work on my front yard and try to get it up to this level.” It was such a nice thing to say. And it made us feel so proud of our front yard…

Hopefully, we van get our backyard up to the level of our front yard. We pulled all the grass and weeds out of the front third of our backyard…

I tried to dig out an old concrete post anchor next to our backyard path…

And that was clearly a mistake. I put it back in it’s hole and filled the hole back in…

Our next step will be adding rocks…

We went upstairs to take some showers. Hi Oscar…

We had BLTs for dinner….

BLTs with wedge fries…

Good evening from Northside…

Our front yard looks so nice…

We sat out on our back patio for a bit…

We watched the Louisville City thump Memphis 3-0 and listened to some music…

We had a really good Saturday. 😀🌄🏡🐾🥪❤️

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by Thadd F. on June 12, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on June 12, 2021

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Hello June.

Good morning from Northside…

This letter to Northside was tacked to a streetlight on the next street over…

Across the street the sofa was gone…

Good evening from Northside…

We have more blooms in our front yard…

Even one of our little ground coverings has a bloom on it…

We started watching Ragnarok on Netflix. It’s pretty good so far. But it’s really hard to believe that it’s already June. 😀🌄🏡🌼📺❤️

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by Thadd F. on June 1, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on June 1, 2021

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Happy Memorial Day!

Today was Memorial Day…

Thank you to all the brave men & women who protect and serve our great country…

We got up early this morning to run over to the grocery…

And we got coffee…

We took the dogs on their morning walk…

Good morning from Northside…

We trimmed our front yard grass…

Geri came over for lunch. And Genifer made Skillet Pineapple BBQ Chicken…

It was delicious. She always finds the best recipes to make. And there was Carvel’s original ice cream cake…

We hung out in our backyard…

Good evening from Northside…

We have some more blooms in our front yard…

It was so pretty today, we hung out on our back patio for the rest of the evening…

We had a very nice Memorial Day and a wonderful long holiday weekend.
😀🇺🇸🌄🍽️🏡❤️

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by Thadd F. on May 31, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on May 31, 2021

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Stuffed crust and backyard lights.

Our Saturday morning was off to an overcast start…

But when we got to the top of the hill at the end of our street, the sun came out…

Good morning from Northside…

We ran over to St. Bernard to pick up some Pizza Hut for lunch…

We got some stuffed crust pizza, a pan meat lovers and cheese bread…

Good evening from Northside…

We strung some little lights around the top of our backyard fence…

We can’t wait to see what they look like when it gets dark.

One year ago, we worked on transforming our front yard…

And seven years ago, someone left their Tonka truck at Lytle Park…

I hope they found their truck. 😀🌄🍕🏡💡🚚❤️

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by Thadd F. on May 22, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on May 22, 2021

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Pizza Party Thursday.

Good morning from Northside…

We had more delicious panini roll-ups for lunch today…

They were taking the final chunks of the tree away…

Good evening from Northside…

One of our little bushes in our front yard has a little blossom now too…

We had an NYPD Pizza Party Thursday…

And we had to get the cheese garlic bread…

You just have to get the bread. It’s only $2.99…

Pizza Party Thursdays are the best Thursdays. 😀🌄🌯🌼🍕❤️

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by Thadd F. on May 20, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on May 20, 2021

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Some more little blooms.

Good morning from Northside…

We made turkey and cheese roll-ups on a panini press for lunch…

Good evening from Northside…

Our little ground cover plants have started flowering…

We had a pretty good Wednesday. 😀🌄🦃🧀🌯❤️

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by Thadd F. on May 19, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on May 19, 2021

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It’s starting to look better.

Today got off to kind of an overcast start…

Good morning from Northside…

We ran back over to Lowe’s this morning…

And we stopped at Mad Llama for coffee and bagels…

And then we did some work in our yard. We finally finished staining our fence…

We planted these marigolds…

We hung our wind chimes…

We got a couple of plants for our hanging baskets…

We forgot to get more pea gravel for our side yard. But we got another planter…

Two more little planters…

And planted plants in them…

But we ran out of potting soil before we could get to our Yucca…

We planted more marigolds…

We moved our little ground coverings from the side yard to the front yard…

Hopefully, they do better over here…

And we got this little mini rose bush…

Next, we’ll have to work on our grass and try to figure out what to do with the path in the backyard and there has been talk of a couple of rock rivers. But it’s starting to look a little better in our backyard.

Good evening from Northside…

We sat on our patio and watched FC Cincinnati lose the home opener in their beautiful new stadium…

We ate frozen oven pizzas…

And called it a Sunday…

We had another really good day. 😀🌄🏡🌻⚽️❤️

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by Thadd F. on May 16, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on May 16, 2021

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A snowy Friday in February.

😀🌄❄️🐢🥡❤️

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by Thadd F. on February 19, 2021 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on February 19, 2021

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Another pretty good, low-key Saturday.

Good morning from Northside…

We ran over to Lowe’s this morning…

We got some more Christmas lights but not the lights we wanted because most of the lights were already sold out. And we got paint for our third-floor bedroom.

On the way home, we stopped at Mad Llama for coffee and a Java Whip!

When we got home, I got to open day five of my Lego City Advent Calendar…

Genifer worked on painting our third-floor bedroom. She’s been on a real painting kick lately. She had it looking really good. But she’s really good at painting. I am not good.
At all.

We had a really late lunch. And we just had leftovers. We ate the rest of the delicious chicken marinated in Trader Joe’s Island Soyaki and Genifer made more stuffing. And it made so much stuffing…

I’m guessing we’re going to have stuffing with every meal for a while. And I’m really good with that. Because I love stuffing!

We watched Western Michigan lose their unbeaten football season to Eastern Michigan. Bummer.

And then, we took the dog’s out on a walk around the block…

Good evening from Northside…

We added these lights around the banister on our front porch….

Later, we watched Don’t Listen. It was one of those really weird movies that just left us with a lot of unaswered questions. It was weird. But other that Western loss and the silly movie, it was just another pretty good, low-key Saturday. 😀🌄☕️🐔🏈📺❤️

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by Thadd F. on December 5, 2020 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on December 5, 2020

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Friday pizza party!

We got to see another really pretty sunrise this morning…

Good morning from Northside…

And there was this pretty little flower on one of the shrubs in our front yard…

We walked to Sidewinder to get coffees this morning to celebrate Friday…

Fast forward through the work day, and it was officially the weekend! Time for a Toppers pizza party!

Omigosh! Great pizza! What a terrific way to usher in the weekend!

After we stuffed ourselves full of pizza and cheesy bread, we took the dogs out on their walk around the block…

We started watching the second season of Dark on Netflix. And then we all pretty much just crashed out…

We’re really happy we made it through the week. The work week after a vacation always feels so long. Now we can just relax again. I don’t think we really have any big plans for this weekend. There’s still this pandemic that is more out of control now than ever. And I think it’s suppose to rain all weekend too. 😀🌄☕️🍕🐾❤️

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by Thadd F. on November 20, 2020 • Permalink

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