Why does it seem like every Monday so overcast and grey?
Good morning from Northside…
It started raining again this morning…
This airplane was flying east to west which was weird because we see a lot of planes over Northside but they all fly north and south, not east and west. It was kind of odd…
Good evening from Northside…
Mondays are just so bleh, especially when they are all rainy and grey. But these photos from my Timehop made today a little sunnier…
😀🌄☁️🌧️☔️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on June 21, 2021
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Good morning from Northside…
I had been waiting on this turntable package that I really liked from Turntable Lab. The only problem, it was out of stock for quite a while. I told myself that as soon as it was available again, I was going to order it.
It was finally available again. I ordered it. And today it arrived…
It sounds soooo good. Now we just need to start to get some more records.
Good morning from Northside…
For dinner tonight, we had our second HelloFresh meal. This one was Open-Face Pork Sausage Sammiches on cheesy garlic bread with green bell peppers and onions…
These meals are really delicious! I could really get used to eating these meals all the time.
In my Timehop today, there were these photos of water in our basement after a storm…
But even with all the rain we’ve been having, our basement is still dry now…
And speaking of Timehop, today was my 1095th Timehop in a row. Three years of checking my Timehop…
We can’t wait to listen to some music. 😀🌄🏡🎶🍽️💧❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on June 16, 2021
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Two years ago, we were just starting our epic road trip with Oscar, #gtfOscarRoadTrip2019…
It was an incredible adventure. It was our first road trip with Oscar and our first to Outer Banks…
It seems like every hotel we stayed at had a continental breakfast with a waffle maker. I ate a bunch of waffles on our road trip…
And it started a vacation photo series of Genifer eating breakfasts…
It really lived up to it’s hashtag of an epic road trip. 😀🐾🗺️🧇😍❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on May 2, 2021
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Today is our five-year and two-month wedding anniversary…
Good morning from Northside…
Good evening from Northside…
😀🌄🐻🐻❄️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on April 27, 2021
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Good morning from Northside…
We got NYPD hoagies for lunch today…
And I got chicken tenders for lunch tomorrow.
Good evening from Northside…
There was a 99.9% full moon tonight over Northside…
And this evening we watched Michigan thump Florida State to reach the Elite Eight…
Two years ago, we were watching Opening Day baseball and having Habenero Mango Oberons at Pony…
Gosh. I miss baseball and Pony. Still, we had a pretty good Sunday. 😀🌄☁️🥪🍟🏀❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on March 28, 2021
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I love this part of time off from work when you wake up in the morning and you’re not entirely certain exactly what day it is…
The clouds were so pretty this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
I ordered this adorable westie pendant for Genifer for Christmas…
I purchased it on December 12th. It didn’t ship until December 18th. It shipped USPS so it’s journey took almost forever. It arrived today. And this is what was in the box…
Delightful. Now I get to track down what I actually ordered.
Genifer ordered us Chipotle for lunch again…
It started raining this afternoon and just kept raining…
I accidentally took this photo but I kind of like it…
And a very rainy good evening from Northside…
But our basement is still completely bone dry…
Thursdays are trash and recycling days…
We had leftover lasagna for dinner with garlic bread…
I love meals with garlic bread. Genifer made deep dish cookies for dessert…
We started to watch Equinox on Netflix tonight. It seems pretty good so far.
In my Timehop from two years ago, my photos on Google Maps had just gone over 3.5 million views…
Fast forward to today and my photos have 63 million views…
And that’s pretty cool, if you ask me. Also four years ago, it snowed…
We don’t snow very often. But we do get a lot of great days, just like this one.
😀🌄☁️🌯🌧️🗺️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 30, 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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Today was December 1st. How crazy is that? It must have kept snowing overnight because we woke up to winter wonderland…
And a snowy good morning from Northside…
Brrr. I bought three Lego City Advent Calendars a while back. I bought on one for me and one for our niece and one for our nephew out in Boston. I forgot that they were still sitting on the sofa in our studio, and just mailed them out the day after Thanksgiving. Because December really snuck up on me. Violette and Edgerton… your Lego Advent Calendars are on their way. They’ll be there just as soon as USPS finally decides to deliver them. I paid to have them delivered today. But the tracking number says they are still in Cincinnati somehow.
Anyway, I finally got the start my Lego City Advent Calendar today…
And here is Lego City Advent Calendar day one…
A Lego City Advent Calendar. How cool is that? I think Lego anything is pretty dang awesome.
I started working this morning. I had just finished a hour long meeting and a little after 10am all of a sudden, our power went out….
You don’t really realize how much of your work depends on power until you don’t have it. Obviously, there wasn’t any internet. And my work MacBook is a bit older and the battery life isn’t super. So by 11:30am, I was pretty much staring out the window, waiting for the power to come back on.
The energy company’s website said it wouldn’t be back on before 1:30pm. Eventually, we ventured out to go out to pick up something for lunch and decided on Wendy’s…
We got home and started eating our Wendy’s and the power came back on a little before 2pm…
Thank goodness for electricity!
It looks like people got some good sledding in on the hill at the end of our street…
We should have gone sledding while we were waiting for power to come back on.
Good evening from Northside…
We ate leftover Wendy’s chicken nuggets for dinner. And later, we watched Holidate on Netflix. It was super cute. It’s still hard to believe it’s December 1st.
Today was also my 900th Timehop in a row…
And this guy was in my Timehop today…
Pretty fitting for December 1st. It is the season. It was a pretty good day, even without power. 😀🌄❄️🍔📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 1, 2020
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It was a very rainy morning…
In fact, it was raining so much that the dogs didn’t even want to go on a walk. We basically dragged them down to the end of the street to potty.
This morning our new sofa was finally supposed to be delivered. I think we ordered it all the way back at the beginning of August. So long ago in fact, that I couldn’t remember what it was supposed to look like or even what color we ended up choosing. We had the space in our living room all ready…
And then it was here…
And our new sofa is just perfectly splendid…
It’s so nice and stylish and very, very comfortable to sit on. Maybe we’ll actually start watching TV is our living room instead of always retreating upstairs to our bedroom. We’ll see. But we’re very happy with our new sofa.
Today was the start of the college basketball season. I watched Xavier just destroy Oakland. And Michigan hold off a very good Bowling Green team. It’s terrific to have college basketball back in our quarantine lives.
I finished up my projects for the week. And it was time for the long four-day holiday weekend. It was also time to take the dogs on the evening walk around the block…
We clouds didn’t even look real this evening. They looked like a painting…
Good evening from Northside…
Genifer ordered holiday sweaters for Oscar and Mack…
They’re a little snug. But still very festive. Mack didn’t seem to mind his. But you could tell Oscar was mad while he had his sweater on.
We had a few drinks this evening to celebrate our new sofa and because it was the biggest going out night of the year.
But we were still in bed before eleven o’clock. 😀🌄🌧️🏡🌻🐾🍻❤️
And this photo of Mack showed up in my Timehop today…
Posted by Thadd F. on November 25, 2020
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Two years ago, I got this “Rocket Drone ZF7 With Folding” to review…
I was so excited to try it out. There’s a big open soccer field behind the school on top of hill at the end of our street. I started flying it and…
With it still hovering in place, I started to record video of my drone’s maiden flight. I touched the left joysticks and the drone started to drift away from me. Frantically, I started moving both joysticks to try to pilot the drone back in my direction. But the controls went completely unresponsive as the drone drifted towards tall trees just on the far side of the soccer goal in the photo above. I started to run after it hoping that if I got closer to it maybe I could regain some control of the drone. But I couldn’t get close enough in time and I watched it hit the top of one of the trees and drop to the floor of Parker Woods on the other side of a ten-foot chain-linked fence…
And it’s still out there somewhere…
Maybe someday I’ll try a different drone. Maybe one from DJI. But probably not any time soon.
Thanks for the memories, Timehop. 😐🦕❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on November 18, 2020
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