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’ Constitutionâ€, 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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Beeville Bound . . .
Well, it looks the rain is over for a while. In fact today was sunny and in the low 70’s, so very nice for a change.
Jan and I headed out about 1:30pm for our daytrip down to Beeville, but our first stop was the Karnes County National Bank in Kenedy. I had set up my online banking account there a couple of weeks ago, but then the next time I tried, the system wouldn’t let me in, and said there was a problem with my user name. Well, since I use RoboForm to store my logins and passwords, I knew they were right.
And as far as I can tell, there’s no way to reset it online, or even a number to call. And although it took a while at the bank they were finally able to get it straightened out and working out.
And maybe because of my above problem, I ordered some checks while I was there since it wouldn’t let do it online. It said it couldn’t verify my identify.
Now with both these chores done, we headed out on the 30 mile trip south down to Beeville. Our first stop was the Beeville Diner, a place recommended to us by Nancy, our RV parks owner a few weeks ago. And boy was she right.
Though the Yelp reviews were hit and miss, with some 1 star reviews and some 5 star ones. And it seems the 1 star ones were mostly due to bad service.
But that was not our experience.
We were seated immediately and our drink orders taken. And when our drinks were brought out a couple of minutes later, the young lady took our food order.
Jan and I both ordered salads, and we split an order of their Sweet Tangy Golden Sauce Wings.
Jan said these were the best wings she’s ever had. And I concur. And believe me, we’ve eaten a LOT of wings over the years.
They had a crunchy crust and the sauce was delicious. I would have liked them a little hotter, but I can do that myself.
Jan got the Avocado Salad with Crispy Chicken,
while I got the Berry Nut Salad with Crispy Chicken.
Both were delicious, and very big. Almost too big to finish.
Beeville Diner was really good, and worth another trip back down to Beeville.
Next up was our movie pick, Arrival, which started at 4pm. Starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, the word of mouth has been really good on this picture, a story about 12 alien ships landing about the world, and the race to learn to communicate with them.
Amy Adams plays Louise Brooks, a linguist, who is recruited along with Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), a theoretical physicist, to decode the alien’s message.
This is a ‘thinking’ science fiction movie, more in the line of Matt Damon’s “The Martianâ€, rather action movies like Star Wars’ robots and rayguns. There’s a lot going on in this movie, with a big twist at the end, that completely changes how you see the story.
Well worth seeing, and actually a movie I’d like to see again, because I’m sure there are things we missed.
So a really good movie.
Go See It.
Thought for the Day:
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.†― Neil Gaiman
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