Good morning from Northside…
And good evening for Northside…
I found this recipe for how to make the banana pudding from Magnolia Bakery in New York City at home. We didn’t make this recipe exactly. But Genifer still made banana pudding for us…
I mixed my pudding and ReddiWip all together…
Banana pudding is delicious. 😀🌄🐾🍌❤️
And this photo of Oscar showed up in my Timehop today…
Posted by Thadd F. on November 24, 2020
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It’s Thursday. We’ve almost made it through another week…
Good morning from Northside…
Fast forward through the work day to the sunset this evening in our backyard…
Genifer made these turkey mushroom stuffed acorn squash for dinner…
And they were delicious! She always finds the best recipes to make.
After dinner, we went back out in our backyard to check on the sunset…
And then we took the dogs around the block. There was a big X is the sky…
Good evening from Northside…
Tonight, I was trying a different camera app. I was looking for an app that made it easier to control the contrast because I thought some of my photos have looked washed out lately. Now, these feel a little too dark. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Later, we watched the Thursday night football game. While we were watching the game, I remembered something I heard one of the announcers say during last week’s Thursday night football game…
Last time I checked, points aid in one’s pursuit of a win when playing a game that a score is kept.
It totally sounds like something Joe Buck would say.
Today was also my 888th Timehop in a row…
And in my 888th Timehop in a row was one of my favorite gifts we ever received, our Cincinnati Reds All-Star Legacy Brick…
We had another pretty good Thursday. 😀🌄🐾🍽️🦕🧱❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 19, 2020
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We saw this great sidewalk chalk art on top of the hill at the end of our street…
After looking at this photo, I think we were looking at it upside down.
Good evening from Northside…
It’s fun to visit new places and go on trips but it’s also nice to be home. 😀🌄🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 14, 2020
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It’s hard to believe that today is November 1st…
It was pretty nice getting an extra hour of sleep this morning…
Good morning from Northside with an extra hour later…
This morning we made these pillsbury Chocolate Chip Sweet Biscuits for breakfast…
They’d become somewhat of a running joke. Every time we were at the grocery, I’d point them out to Genfiier and ask if she wanted to get them. She’s always say no. And I just kept asking every trip for months. Finally the last time we were at the grocery, they were on sale. I put them in our cart and here we are…
They were pretty good. They were remarkably similar to the Pillbury cinnamon rolls. Since the oven was already warm, Genifer made some Snoopy cookies too…
Of course, I focus on the one cookie that’s upside-down. And we learned how to draw Snoopy heads…
And then we just hung out for the rest of the afternoon…
Good evening from Northside…
We had spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. Before dust cheese…
After dust cheese…
After dust cheese with garlic bread…
Gosh. I love spaghetti and meatballs with dust cheese and garlic bread.
We went back out in the backyard to play some more…
After we eat dinner and go outside, we give the dogs their evening treat of a couple of hot dogs chunks so Mack can get his allergy medicine…
Hot dogs might just be the favorite part of Mack’s day.
And I captured this horrible photo of tonight’s full moon…
Any time you can get an extra hour of Sunday, it’s a good thing.
Having just watched Maleficent on Friday night, we watched Maleficent 2 tonight. It was another pretty good movie. 😀🌄⏰🍪🍝📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 1, 2020
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Tomorrow is Halloween. There will still be trick-or-treating but still, it just won’t be the same with the COVID raging, will it? Who would have thought that all the way back in the middle of March that the number of pandemic cases would be still be accerlating eight months later at Halloween?
But at least it’s Friday…
And guess what, it’s also still grey and overcast. So, yeah.
Good morning from Northside…
Genifer made some delicious cookies…
The blue skies were trying to peek through the clouds…
Good evening from Northside…
We ate oven pizzas for dinner…
The skies were starting to clear…
Maybe it’ll actually be nice for Halloween tomorrow…
Tonight, we watched Maleficent on Disney+. It’s hard to believe that we’d never seen it before. But it was really good. It was great way to wind down our Halloween Eve.
Happy Halloween Eve! 😀🌄☁️🍪🍕🐾📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 30, 2020
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Looking at the sunrise this morning, I thought the sun might actually break through the clouds. And maybe it would be a pretty nice day…
But it’s still grey this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
Oscar came into the studio to visit me while I was working this afternoon…
Hi Oscar! And guess what? It was still grey this evening…
Good evening from Northside…
And good evening from our backyard…
It’s supposed to be rainy again tomorrow morning. Our plan is to try to be in line over at the Hamilton County Board of Elections before it opens at 8am so Genifer can vote early and I can drop off my absentee ballot.
Fingers crossed. 😀🌄☁️🤞❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 28, 2020
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It was another Monday morning. And it was another grey and rainy morning. Why are Mondays always so grey and rainy?
Good morning from Northside…
Mack and Oscar were waiting for postwalk treats…
The Pad Thai we had last week was so good that I got this Pad Thai for lunch when we were at the grocery…
The noodles were good. But the flavor definitely wasn’t Pad Thai. It was just Asiany noodles. The flavor was kind of odd, actually. I don’t think I would get these noodles again. At least this flavor.
And for dinner tonight, we had another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals for dinner tonight. This one was Margarita Chicken with garlic Parmesan zucchini…
And then with the pesto added on top of the chicken…
And it was another delicious dinner. The chicken was so cheesy and the pesto on top of it was great. The Parmesan zucchini was just out of this world good. We really like the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kits a lot.
It started really sprinkling while we were on our walk this evening…
Good evening from Northside…
Tonight, we started The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix. We’re just a couple of episodes in and it’s pretty good so far. 😀🌄🍜🌧️📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 26, 2020
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Our beloved bud dog passed away five years ago in the middle of the night…
It’s really hard to believe Milan’s been gone for four years now. There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by where we still haven’t missed him in bunches even after all this time. He’s still always in our thoughts each and every day. And I’m so very thankful that a couple of bud dog photos still show up in my Timehop a few times a week…
All of us still miss you so very much, Milan. You helped me through one of the roughest patches of my life and helped me come out the other side. You were always there for me. Always there with me. You were the best friend I’ve ever had. And it breaks our hearts that you’re not still here with us now. You would have loved our big house with our little backyard and our neighborhood with all the walks we take through the woods. You were definitely taken from us far too soon.
Rest in peace, bud dog. I will always love you and miss you
more than words could ever possibly say.
Milan Fiala: January 5th, 2006 – October 26th, 2015
Posted by Thadd F. on October 26, 2020
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Good morning from Northside…
This afternoon we ordered pizza from Taft’s Brewpourium. And we had accumulated some rewards…
Omigosh! Look at our Taft’s Brewpourium pizza feast…
I’m pretty sure Taft’s is my favorite pizza is all of Cincinnati. It’s so good.
Oscar was telling us it’s time to go on our evening walk…
And when we were walking the dogs, we noticed this…
That’s pretty darn creepy.
Good evening from Northside…
We hung this guy out on our back porch…
This afternoon I had to knock out a few things for work while I listened to Arsenal lose 1-0 to Leicester, and then we watched the Bengals come up short against the Browns.
This evening, we watched the Dodgers win the World Series. It’s a bummer. It would have been so neat for Tampa Bay teams to win the Stanley Cup and the World Series. This season will always have asterisk next to it for me. The Dodgers were the best team that money could buy over the course of a pandemic-shortened 60-game season. Personally, I liked it much better when the Dodgers would spend all that money year after year and and then come up short. That was great. 😀🌄🍕🐾⚽️🏈⚾️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 25, 2020
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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
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