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Our Saturday.

This morning we got up early and went to Trader Joe’s and then to Kroger for groceries. Afterward, we stopped at Biggby Coffee for our weekend morning drinks…

It was kind of a sports Saturday. We watched Leicester draw with Chelsea, Xavier beat #10 Seton Hall, the second half of Wolves super boring draw with United, Michigan beat #25 Rutgers. And later, #23 Wichita State lost to Tulsa. The two underdogs we were cheering for won but the favorited Shockers lost and both of our soccer teams drew.

We finished watching 11.22.63 on Hulu. It was really good. We wished it would have kept going for more episodes. We started watching a new series on Netflix. This one is called The Stranger. It seems like another pretty good one. 😀☕️⚽️🏀📺❤️

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by Thadd F. on February 1, 2020 • Permalink

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Tagged 2020, Biggby Coffee, Cincinnati, Coffee, Feb1, February, NCAA College basketball, Netflix & Chill, Northside, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Saturday morning, Seen and noted, Soccer, Sports, Suburbia, Weekend morning coffee

Posted by Thadd F. on February 1, 2020

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Camp Washington Chili.

After Cincinnati Museum Center, we continued my birthday theme of celebrating with things that are Cincinnati wonderful. And we stopped for lunch at another place that’s older than I am, Camp Washington Chili…

I’d had Camp Washington Chili at the Coney Eating Contests on Fountain Square but we’d never been to their restaurant for some reason. We thought we’d change that today for my birthday lunch…

Genifer ordered two chili cheese sammiches…

I ordered a patty melt and a cheese coney and we shared some french fries…

Everything was delicious! And there was so much stuff on their menu that sounded great. I can’t wait to come back to Camp Washington Chili because next time I have to try their 513 Way…

It’s three slabs of goetta topped with chili, beans, onions, and cheese. It doesn’t get much more Cincinnati than that. Before we left, we got a couple of pieces of cake for us to eat later…

Genifer got carrot cake because she loves carrot cake…

And I got chocolate cake for my birthday cake…

What a delicious birthday lunch. Thanks, Camp Washington Chili! 😀🧀🌭🎂❤️

ps. I had a really great birthday. Thanks for all the birthday wishes!

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by Thadd F. on January 29, 2020 • Permalink

Posted in #WINTERinCINCY, Odd & Ends, Suburbia

Tagged 2020, Camp Washington, Camp Washington Chili, Cheese coneys, Cheeseburger, Cincinnati, Happy birthday, It's what's for lunch, January, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted, Suburbia, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on January 29, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/01/29/camp-washington-chili-2/

Happy birthday to me!

Today was my birthday! We both took the day off work. Because the only thing worse than a Wednesday birthday is having to go to work on a Wednesday birthday…

We started our day with some Biggby coffees…

And then we went over to the BMV around the corner from Biggby on Red Bank Road to get the new tags for our Jetta and I had to renew my license this year…

We got our tags. I renewed my license. And I passed my vision test… without having to use my glasses! That’s a pretty good thing because last week, I cracked my glasses in two when I was putting my laptop into my backpack one morning…

Bummer about my glasses. Hooray for renewing my license without them.

After we got the BMV out of the way, we could have some birthday fun. 😀☕️👓❤️

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by Thadd F. on January 29, 2020 • Permalink

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Tagged 2020, Biggby Coffee, BMV, Cincinnati, Coffee, Drivers license, Glasses, Happy birthday, Jan29, January, Madisonville, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Renewal, Seen and noted, Suburbia

Posted by Thadd F. on January 29, 2020

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Another rainy Saturday.

This morning we woke up early again to head over to Trader Joe’s before it got too crazy busy on Saturday. The later it gets, the busier it gets. We usually try to get to Trader Joe’s as close to 8am when it open as we can. This morning was our best time
so far. We pulled into their parking lot at 8:02am…

I just thought that little berry bunny was pretty cute. We didn’t get any frozen chocolate cover strawberry pieces though. I wonder if they would be good?

After we were done getting groceries at TJ’s, we headed over to get our Saturday morning coffee at Biggby…

Biggby is our reward for getting up and getting groceries out of the way. We both got hot chocolates this morning. Biggby had more student artwork on display on their walls. I really liked the hills with the watercolor skies…

The owl and the elephant were really great too…

And if we had a daughter and named her Niala…

She would be Niala Fiala. Maybe Niala could be a middle name.

Later, we went over to Taft’s Brewpourium for another lunch with our gift cards we got for Christmas…

Taft’s had a new Hazelnut Latte Coffee Milk Stout on tap…

And it was really delicious. We watched the Michigan-Illinois game on our little tablet. We shared a small pizza with pepperoni, sausage and banana peppers…

We also shared some of Taft’s chicken wings…

We had six buffalo wings and six Cherrywood BBQ wings…

I think I really like the Cherrywood BBQ the best. But they’re both really good. And even though, Michigan lost. Again. It was a great lunch. We just love Taft’s pizza and wings.

Later, we started watching a series called 11.22.63 on Hulu. It’s pretty good so far. And even though it was another rainy day, it was another pretty good Saturday. 😀🌨️❤️

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by Thadd F. on January 25, 2020 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on January 25, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/01/25/another-rainy-saturday/

A morning run around.

We had the day off work today for the MLK Jr Day holiday. This morning we got up early to run some errands. We planned on stopping to get coffee at College Hill Coffee Company in College Hill…

But they’re closed on Mondays. We picked up a refill of Mack’s allergy medicine from his vet down the street in College Hill. And then we headed over to Rookwood. We finally got coffee and hot chocolate from Joseph-Beth Booksellers. We had a couple of exchanges at J. Crew. And ran through Home goods where we saw an awesome Josh mug. You don’t see Josh mugs very often. This one will be on its way out to Boston as soon as I can find a little box to put it in…

After we were done running our errands, we had lunch at Rusty Bucket. It’s funny it seems like every time we’re over at Rookwood we end up eating lunch at Rusty Bucket…

It’s nothing fancy. It’s just really good. Genifer’s been on quite a quesadilla kick lately…

Making it two days in a row. But we shared the first one so… I had the same sammich I order every single time we go to Rusty Bucket, Chicken Finger BLT...

And we shared a piece of strawberry cheesecake for dessert…

I ate all the strawberries and whipped cream. Genifer ate the actual cheesecake.

Other than our errands, we didn’t do much else today. We walked the dogs and watched the Lakers-Celtics MLK Day NBA game and that was about it. 😀🐔❤️

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by Thadd F. on January 20, 2020 • Permalink

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Tagged 2020, Cincinnati, College Hill, College Hill Coffee Co, Consumerism, Holidays, Home Goods, It's what's for lunch, Jan20, January, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Rookwood Commons, Rusty Bucket, Seen and noted, Suburbia, VCA College Hill, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on January 20, 2020

https://tplusg.com/2020/01/20/a-morning-run-around/

It’s Skyline time!

Genifer had to go into work for a little bit this morning. When she got home, we headed over to Skyline in St. Bernard for some Skyline Time! It’s been a minute since we last had Skyline time. I got a Skyline gift card for Christmas but wouldn’t you know I left it on our dining room table…

Mmmm… Cheese coneys and chili cheese sammiches are so good. YUM! 😀🧀🌭❤️

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by Thadd F. on December 30, 2019 • Permalink

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Tagged 2019, Cheese coneys, Cincinnati, Dec30, December, It's Skyline time!, It's what's for lunch, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted, St. Bernard, Suburbia, We ate this

Posted by Thadd F. on December 30, 2019

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Are you ready for some football?

This afternoon, we drove over to Rookwood Commons to go to BJ’s Brewhouse for their awesome Sunday Happy Hour during the final Sunday of the NFL regular season…

We started with a couple of beers. Genifer likes their PM Porter and I usually go for their Tatonka Stout. We also had some mozzarella sticks…

We planned to order more food for lunch but the normally reliable bar service at BJs was just horrendous today. Apparently, the bartender was really hungover and didn’t feel like waiting on anybody. We couldn’t even manage to flag him down to refill our water. So we broke camp and went to Taft’s Brewpourium for pizza and wings…

The pizza and wings were awesome. And our Cowboys won big but the Eagles won too. So the Cowboys will be watching the playoffs with the rest of us. 😀🏈🍺🧀🍕🐔❤️

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by Thadd F. on December 29, 2019 • Permalink

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Posted by Thadd F. on December 29, 2019

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

We exchanged our Christmas presents this morning…

Santa was very good to us. We went over to Genifer’s brother’s house for a little bit before heading out to her mom’s in the afternoon for Christmas dinner and more gifts…

When we got home, we set everything on our dining room table so the dogs wouldn’t get into things they shouldn’t be getting into and it looked like Christmas exploded all over our dining room. What a terrific holiday mess…

We had a really wonderful Christmas in Cincinnati. And we hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! 😀🎄🎅🎁❤️

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by Thadd F. on December 25, 2019 • Permalink

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Tagged 2019, Christmas decorations, Cincinnati, Dec25, December, Holiday decorations, Holidays, Merry Christmas, Northside, O Christmas tree, Odds&Ends, Ohio, Seen and noted, Suburbia, The Westside, West Chester

Posted by Thadd F. on December 25, 2019

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Happy Christmas Eve Eve!

Happy Christmas Eve Eve! We got up early this morning to get some Biggby Coffee…

Genifer has been really liking their Peppermint Mocha Latte with almond milk and I’ve been all about the Cocoa Caramella hot chocolate with a shot of butterscotch. I also a big fan of Biggby’s sausage egg and cheese breakfast bagel sammich on an Asiago bagel. It’s really good stuff all the way around…

After Biggby, we went over to Rookwood Commons to do some last-minute shopping. We were mainly looking for some stuff for the dogs. But all I did was take photos of adorable stuff like these two characters…

How about caramel coffee flavoring in a penguin bottle wearing a winter hat?

Or a larger than life-sized plush penguin…

Oe a Triceratops sleeping bag…

I bought this sugar cookie ix because how cute is that little polar bear serving tray?

I like bears. After shopping, we had lunch at Rusty Bucket so I could get my Chicken Finger BLT. I really like Rusty Bucket and I love that chicken sammich. When we got home, we took the dogs on a walk and then we were pretty lazy…

It was a pretty good Christmas Eve Eve…

And it’s been a really good break so far. 😀🎄🎅🐾❤️

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by Thadd F. on December 23, 2019 • Permalink

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Tagged 2019, Biggby Coffee, Christmas Eve Eve, Cincinnati, Coffee, Consumerism, Corners of our home, Dec23, December, Dogs, Mack, Ohio, Oscar, Pause for paws, Pets, Rookwood Commons, Rusty Bucket, Suburbia, Weekend morning coffee

Posted by Thadd F. on December 23, 2019

https://tplusg.com/2019/12/23/happy-christmas-eve-eve/

Sunday afternoon in West Chester.

This morning we went out to the grocery in West Chester and I saw this adorable toy…

The mouse has little cheese inside it. How cute is that? After the grocery, we went out to lunch with Geri at Dingle House. I had the most amazing codwich sammich. It was really good. We hung out with Geri for a little bit. She had a wonderful little Christmas scene set up in her window…