We woke up to a winter wonderland this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
It was pretty crazy to have snow on April 21st.
But later this evening, the sun had come out and all the snow had melted away…
The street was very steamy…
Good evening from Northside…
And a photo of my very first smart phone popped up in my Timehop today…
Technology has come a long way in the last 12 years. 😀🌄❄️☃️📱❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on April 21, 2021
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Happy President’s Day! I’m very appreciative to have an actual functioning adult as president again.
It was very snowy again this morning. We got some more snow overnight and we were supposed to get a bunch more snow this afternoon into this evening. We were joking that it wasn’t a holiday during the middle of a pandemic that it would have probably been a snow day and we would have got to stay home…
And so a snowy good morning from Northside…
Before the snow got too bad, we ran over to Skyline to pickup some lunch…
The roads weren’t terrible. But they also weren’t great…
Genifer didn’t yell at me for taking photos with my DJI Osmo Pocket while driving so you know it wasn’t too bad outside yet…
Up in Michigan, they would have just called this another Monday…
Genifer’s Audi Q3 did really well in the snow…
And now it’s Skyline Time!
It was so good. For dessert, we ate our Valentine’s cannolis from Taft’s yesterday…
Shortly after we were done eating, we received a text that Hamilton County was upgraded to a Level 2 Snow Advisory…
Good evening from a very snowy Northside…
We played in the snow in our backyard…
And we watched the snow accumulate on our street from our third-floor WyzeCam…
We also watched all six episodes of the series Young Wallander on Netflix. It was pretty good. But the ending was a bit dumb.
Oh… and Michigan basketball is now ranked number three in the country…
We had a really nice President’s Day home from work. 😀🌄🌨️❄️📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on February 15, 2021
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It’s Saturday! Happy Saturday!
Good morning from Northside…
We ran over to the grocery this morning…
And Ice Bear was still locked inside the claw grab machine…
And there was only one panda and the trains were all sold out…
We always liked 21st Amendment’s Hell or High Watermelon. But we’ve never seen Hell or High Mango before. We’ll have to give it a try sometime…
And we saw this M-43 NE IPA from Old Nation Brewing in Williamston, Michigan over on the other side of Lansing…
I’d never really heard of One Nation Brewing or Williamston before. There were still some football balloons before next weekend’s Superb Owl big game…
And there were some Valentine’s Day balloons…
Bunches and bunches of Valentine’s Day balloons…
We stopped at Biggby for coffee…
And we had a BOGO…
We’re saving our Christmas Biggby gift cards for when we don’t have a free one…
Mmmmm… Biggby…
Arsenal played a nil-nil draw with United. And Xavier resumed their season, picking up right where they left off with a 13 point win at Butler.
Good evening from Northside…
And later it started snowing…
It started snowing kind of a lot for us. We were watching the snow accumulate on our street from our third-floor WyzeCam…
We watched The White Tiger on Netflix and then started season one of Unit 42. The White Tiger was pretty good and Unit 42 is just pretty okay. And that was our Saturday It was a pretty happy Saturday. 😀🌄🎈☕️❄️📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 30, 2021
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This morning, we took the dogs all the way around the block…
Good morning from Northside…
It started snowing this afternoon…
Good evening from Northside…
We had another one of the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meals. This one was Chicken Thigh Shawarma Wild Rice Bowl with tzatziki sauce…
It was another really delicious meal. Chicken and rice bowls are terrific. And we love anything with tzatziki sauce. We like the Kroger Prep+Pared Home Chef Express meal kits a lot.
A lot of my favorite basketball teams aren’t playing because of COVID-19. Just tonight, Wichita State, Michigan and Grizzlies all had games postponed…
Thank goodness they haven’t paused all the games and we could watch some other games tonight. 😀🌄☁️🌨️❄️🏀📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 27, 2021
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There were still snow flurries this morning…
And it was still cold and grey…
Good morning from Northside…
We ventured out to try something new this afternoon, Agave & Rye in Rookwood…
We started with some chips and guacamole…
Genifer loves guacamole…
And it was really good at Agave & Rye. We also started with the elotte…
And we each had an epic taco. Genifer had The Buddha: teriyaki 5-spice tofu, sticky rice, baby corn, water chestnuts, cilantro, green onion, carrots, red bell pepper, Shiitake mushrooms, crispy wontons, sweet thai chili sauce…
I love ground beef tacos. And they’re kind of hard to find out. Agave & Rye had two on their menu. So this time I ordered The Cousin of Vinnie: seasoned ground beef, tomato-vodka sauce, mac n cheese, white cheddar, tobacco onions and queso cushion in between the two taco shells…
Next time, I’ll try the other ground beef taco. Their tacos were amazing and huge. And they had a bunch of interesting sounding tacos on their menu.
Everything we ordered was delicious…
Agave & Rye had a whole bunch of arcade game that would have been fun to play…
But we’re still in the middle of a pandemic and I didn’t want to touch anything…
Agave & Rye was incredible. Everything was delicious. Their tacos were huuuuge. And we left so stuffed. I think we just found our new favorite taco shop now that Django Western Taco has moved out of Northside.
When we got home, we took the dogs out around the block…
And it was still cold…
Good evening from Northside…
We ended up taking a nap. And later, we watched the NFL playoff games…
I was happy to see Tom Brady win. I was sad to see Drew Brees lose. And I thought the refs jobbed the Browns. How did they miss this helmet-to-helmet hit? Most likely, it cost the Browns a touchdown and they would end up losing by 5 points. Next weekend, I’ll be cheering for Brady and the Bills. Because nothing would be worse than a State Farm Superb Owl with Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes. I don’t really care for either of them very much.
But anyway, we had a really great day with some epic tacos! 😀🌄❄️🌮🐾🏈❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 17, 2021
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It was a could and snowy morning in Northside…
Good morning from Northside…
We went over to the grocery this morning. It counts as our Saturday activity…
Both the panda and train were on the shelf today…
And the football balloons still dominated the balloons…
And then we got coffees from Mad Llama…
JAVA WHIPS!
After that we were pretty lazy…
We still had some flurries this evening…
Good evening from Northside…
You can see the snowflakes on Mack’s head…
We had a Kroger flatbread pizza for lunch with Caesar salad. It was really good. Somehow, I didn’t take a photo of it. I don’t remember what we had for dinner.
But we had tiramisu for dessert…
Michigan got thumped by Minnesota. And we watched Outside the Wire on Netflix. It was pretty good. We had another good pandemic Saturday. 😀🌄🌨️❄️🏀📺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 16, 2021
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There was still a little bit of snow on the ground this morning…
Good morning from Northside…
Day 17 of my Lego City Advent Calendar…
My work dropped off this holiday care package this afternoon…
It was a pretty great bag stuffed full of all sorts of treats. It was very nice of Grey to do this and hand deliver all these treats.
Good evening from Northside…
For dinner tonight, we made one of our Lou Malnati’s Chicago-style deep-dish pizza that we got in the mail yesterday from JJVE…
What a delicious pizza! It was such a good pie so cheesy and delicious.
Thanks again, JJVE!
For dessert, we had a couple of little mini cheesecakes that Genifer picked up from Taste of Belgium after she was done having lunch with her coworkers…
Those little cheesecakes were really delicious as well.
And this showed up in the mail for us today…
Thanks again, mom & dad! We love us some pizza. Especially delicious Taft’s pizza! We’ll definitely be putting this to good use very soon. Hopefully, we’ll be able to wait until after Christmas.
Tonight, we watched Ava on Netflix. It was like a female Jason Bourne or John Wick or something. And Mack actually came upstairs and crashed out on the bed while we were watched the movie…
Ava was pretty good. Very action packed.
In my Timehop today, the logo I designed for Cincinnati Public Radio popped up from two years ago. After a lengthy design process, the new logo was finally unveiled and then showed up on Cincinnati Public Radio’s website…
Next, it started turning up pretty much everywhere around Cincinnati. Like on their Twitters…
And then it was a 2019 GD USA Award winner. And I still think that’s pretty cool. Thank Timehop for letting me relive this treat.
Today was a great day and was all about lotsa of great treats. 😀🌄🛍️🍕🍮📺🦕❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on December 17, 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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Meteorologists were predicting that Cincinnati would get a “wintery mix” starting at 6pm tonight. And they weren’t very far off for once. It started snowing right around 6:15. We watched the snow fall from our third-floor WyzeCam…
It’ll be interesting to see what it looks like when we wake up in the morning…
Brrrr. 😀🌨️❄️❤️
UPDATE: And I forgot to take a photo of the snow in the morning. But I’m guessing, it looked quite a bit like this.
Posted by Thadd F. on December 15, 2019
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