Daily Archives: December 7, 2016
Six Down, One to Go . . .
With today’s cold, gloomy weather, it seemed to be the perfect day for some comfort food.
And the go-to place for comfort food in the Kenedy area, besides Jan’s kitchen, is of course, Barth’s Restaurant. And what is more comforting than Chicken & Dumplings, Hamburger Steak with Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, and Glazed Carrots.
And amazingly enough, that was exactly what Barth’s was serving today.
Jan and I both like to put our Hamburger Steak and Gravy on top of a mound of mashed potatoes.
One thing that make’s Barth’s so good is that their cooks really know their way around the spice cabinet. For example the glazed carrots weren’t overly sweet, or using that fake maple syrup taste that Golden Corral is so fond of, but just perfect, with a hint of orange zest.
Of course as you can tell from the photo, no matter how perfectly seasoned it is, it always needs more pepper for me.
Today’s menu at Barth’s marks us having six of their seven daily menus, leaving only Thursday’s Fried Pork Chops and Meatloaf. Looking forward to it.
But not tomorrow.
Then after a quick stop at Wal-Mart for a few things, plus some toy aisle strolling for Landon ideas, we headed back home for the day.
Tomorrow is another San Antonio trip for cards, drugs, a movie, and Turkey . . . and Dressing, or course.
Our first stop will be Tuesday Morning for our Christmas cards. Jan has been buying our cards there for years since she discovered that they have really high-end cards for cheap prices. Of course they’re last year’s leftover unsold cards, but they’re not dated, so who would know.
Next stop will be Sam’s Club for that $10 prescription that would be $56 at the Kenedy Wal-Mart, actually the whole reason for this trip.
BTW Sam’s has a new app for you. It’s called Scan & Go and it let’s you completely avoid the checkout line. As you shop around the store, you use the Scan & Go app to scan each item as you put it in your cart. Then when you’re done, you hit the Pay button on the app, show your phone to the person at the door, and away you go.
Really wish Wal-Mart had this during the Christmas rush.
Next up at 2pm is another science fiction movie, Marvel’s Dr. Strange. Probably a lot more action than yesterday’s Arrival, but it’s supposed to be good.
After the movie, it is Thursday after all, and Thursday IS Turkey and Dressing Day at Cracker Barrel, so Cracker Barrel for dinner it is.
Really looking forward to the whole day.
Google has a neat new Android app called Chrome Remote Desktop. It lets you easily access your desktop computer from your Android phone or tablet. You see your home computer desktop on your phone or tablet and can control it.
Just install the Chrome Remote Desktop app on your phone or tablet, install Chrome on your desktop if you don’t already have it, and run the programs to connect them together. Easy Peezy.
So now if you’re out and about and need some info off your home computer, it’s right at your fingertips.
Last week when I posted my latest screed under Greg’s Musings, “Frederick Douglass, The 3/5 Compromise, and Our ‘Racist’ Constitution”, I mentioned at the end that in two hundred years, our descendants might look back on us with the same horror and disgust for eating meat that comes from live animals, as we look back at the Founding Fathers for not being able to get rid of slavery at the beginning of the country.
Well, here’s a couple of interesting articles about the future of lab-grown meat and milk.
https://futurism.com/how-lab-grown-meat-could-be-the-future-of-food/
Wrapping up, I’ve seen so many articles about what’s going with the whole North Dakota Access Pipeline thing that I thought I try to sort out what’s really going on.
Reading articles from both sides, it’s sometimes hard to tell they’re actually talking about the same thing. So hopefully I’ll be able to give you my take on it in the near future.
Thought for the Day:
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ― Will Rogers
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