We were up super early this morning. It was very foggy…
This truck was on our street today…
I really liked the bear and dot-matrix glow around their logo…
Leicester beat Sheffield United 5-0…
We ordered El Taco Veloz from Doordash…
We found a really good one in El Taco Veloz. And they have dessert…
😀🌄⚽️🌯🌮♥️
Posted by Thadd F. on March 16, 2021
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One year ago during the the Mavs-Nuggets game on ESPN, the NBA decided to suspend their season while the Mavs game was still going…
And the next day, it was all kind of dominoes…
And just like that, we were plunged into a world without sports.
Posted by Thadd F. on March 11, 2021
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I’d never seen all The Hobbit movies. So tonight, we started watching the trilogy…
😀🌄⚽️🍕📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on March 6, 2021
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It was a very bright and sunshiny morning…
Good morning from Northside…
And the sun was out all day today…
Good evening from Northside…
We had another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals. This was Swiss Chicken with honey mustard green beans and crispy onions…
It was another really delicious meal. The cheesy chicken was really terrific and the green beans were really good. I think crispy onions can make anything even more delicious. We like the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kits a lot.
While I was working this afternoon, I listened to Leicester beat Chelsea 2-0 to go top of the Premier League. And this evening, we watched Michigan bounce back from their first loss by thumping Maryland 87-63.
We had another good Tuesday. 😀🌄☀️🐔⚽️🏀❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 19, 2021
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Today, we remember the legacy of a great man. We honor The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr… a man who dared to dream while standing fearlessly in the face of adversity. We celebrate the man who taught us to dream while still loving others…
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
We both had the day off work today for the holiday. It was a cold and snowy day…
Good morning from Northside…
Genifer made cheesy buffalo chicken pasta with garlic bread for lunch…
Good evening from Northside…
I realized when we got to the stairs at the top of the hill at the end of our street that I had forgotten my little fisheye Moment lens…
Today, we watched Arsenal beat Newcastle 3-0. And we watched the MLK Day NBA games especially the Grizzlies win over the Suns. I like the Griz. I think they have the best logo in the NBA. It was a very nice day off. And another very low-key, relaxing day. 😀🌄❄️🔥🐔⚽️🏀❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 18, 2021
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It was very pretty this morning. A little chilly but still a very pretty morning…
Good morning from Northside…
We were pretty lazy this morning…
We went to St. Bernard to get some Skyline chili for lunch…
We used our #15 gift card that we won from a Skyline Chili virtual parachute drop on Twitter during one of the Xavier basketball games a while back…
That gift card didn’t last very long. It’s Skyline time!
Mmmm… Cheese coneys…
And we ordered a slice of Cinnabon cheesecake to share…
We ate our lunch, watched Arsenal beat Brighton & Hove Albion, puttered, and took the dogs on their evening walk around the block…
Good evening from Northside…
This evening we watched a couple of terrible movies on Amazon Prime Video. Terrible. I don’t remember what they were called but they were so bad that I’m not even going to look them up to see what they were called. Ohmigosh. They were so bad. Movies, bad. But our day off was really good. 😀🌄🌭🧀🐾❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 29, 2020
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Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day. It originated as a holiday to give gifts to the poor. Boxing Day was traditionally a day off for servants, and the day when they received a special Christmas box from their masters. The servants would also go home on Boxing Day to give Christmas boxes to their families. Today, it’s a great day of soccer from the UK. Early this morning, we watched Leicester rally twice to draw 2-2 with Manchester United…
And we watched my Arsenal…
Arsenal lifted the funk they’ve been in recently with a 3-1 win over Chelsea…
That’s two in the row for the Gunners. They actually looked like the formidable Arsenal of old today.
It was a very pretty evening…
Good evening from Northside…
For dinner tonight, we had stuffed mushrooms that we got at the grocery…
Stuffed mushrooms are delicious. And then we had a frozen oven pizza…
Later, we started watching Hinterland on Netflix. It’s pretty good.
We had a really good Boxing Day. 😀🌄⚽️🍄🍕❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 26, 2020
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When we woke up this morning, we found Northside got a dusting of snow…
But there wasn’t much snow on the hill at the end of our street…
Time for Lego City Advent Calendar day 15…
Genifer ordered Chipotle delivery for lunch….
Chipotle was delicious. I hadn’t had Chipotle in forever.
Both Arsenal and Leicester played at the same time this afternoon. I kept an eye on both of the matches while I was working…
And both of my teams lost. Arsenal is really in a death spiral right now.
We got a couple of special deliveries today. The first package was from my parents…
And there was a wonderful box of Christmas cookies in their package…
There were so many delicious cookies in that box. We cant wait to try them all. And now we also have presents under our tree…
Thanks, mom & dad! Our second package was from TastesOfChicago.com…
And inside were two Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria Chicago-style deep-dish pizzas…
And two huuuuge chocolate chip cookies…
Thanks, JJVE! We can’t wait to try our pizzas and those cookies look terrific!
Later, we took the dogs around the block. It was kind of misty outside this evening…
We couldn’t even see the hill across the way on the other side of the highway…
The hill was just barely visible…
Good evening from Northside…
Today is my Timehop was this photo…
It’s interesting that when I saw this photo my mind went to a completely different place when I saw animal mask than when I saw this originally. And there was this one too…
That would have been the best white elephant gift ever. To this day, I still kick myself for not buying it.
Hi Oscar. He’s so fuzzy!
We had a great Wednesday. Thank you again for the wonderful Christmas gifts.
😀🌄🌯📺⚽️🎁🦕❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 16, 2020
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Good morning from Northside…
This morning we ran over to Target to do some shopping…
How cute are these bears? I love a bin of adorable bears…
And there was this adorable yeti stocking…
Greetings from Antarctica…
I designed the eCommerce basic images for all the holiday Swiss Miss hot cocoa gift sets…
Speaking of Swiss Miss, how long has there been Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa with Lucky Charms Marshmallows? It’s the first time I’ve ever seen this sorcery…
And speaking of cocoa, I love hot chocolate. It’s become my go-to drink whenever we go out to get coffee.
When we got home, it was time for day thirteen of my Lego City Advent Calendar…
We had snacks for lunch today…
We watched Arsenal lose 1-0 to Burnley…
It was the first time since December 1959 that the Gunners have lost four consecutive matches at home. They are really not doing well this season. At the same time as the Arsenal match, Michigan was playing their Big Ten opener against Penn State and our Cowboys were playing in Cincinnati against the Bengals…
Both Michigan and Dallas won their games. I guess, two out of three isn’t so bad.
Good evening from Northside…
Later, I had one of my favorite snacks, Ritz crackers and peanut butter…
We finished season one of Black Spot. It’s a very odd show. Very good, very interesting, but very odd. We’ll start on season two tomorrow. 😀🌄🛍️📺⚽️🏀🏈❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 13, 2020
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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
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