Here was another day trip to Goldsboro, North Carolina. I like the Longhorn Restaurant, which is in the Berkeley Mall parking lot. Although Longhorn is part of a chain of restaurants, their Crab & Lobster Chowder has better flavor than two others of this chain (Fayetteville & Southern Pines). Mistakenly, I asked for my burger to be “medium rare” where I normally just want a little pink in the middle. A good portion of this burger was too raw for me.
So, I normally go up Hwy. 13 which passes through Newton Grove. If I have the time, I will go around the circle in Newton Grove fully so that I can see all of the destinations.
I drove down to Mount Olive to get a small chocolate Frosty at Wendy’s. The price, and I was surprised, was about $2.34 cents. Now, the small cup was slightly larger than the size of the small cup when Wendy’s had a 50 cents special, but I’m not sure that four times as much for maybe a third larger container is actually worth it.
There is a dead end road which ends near the runway fence at Seymour Johnson AFB. I found it, and like to return to see if I can see some jets taking off or landing. I’ve missed them at least twice. Yesterday I saw a couple of jets that looked like they were on approach to land (passing nearly over Wilber’s BBQ Restaurant), but by the time I got around to my dead-end vantage point they were nowhere to be seen. Another thought was that they might be practicing approaches, and didn’t actually land that time.
The above three images were taken on a different visit to my “dead end vantage point for SJAB”. I’m guessing that the large airplane is a “tanker” used to refuel the smaller jets. It was landing. There were several smaller “fighter” jets that were taking off.
After SJAB, I headed back into town and stopped at the Library. The article regarding Margot Robbie wasn’t very interesting, although I think she, in the character of Harley Quinn looks a good deal like Jamie Pressly.
The picture of the Crab & Lobster Chowder shown above was actually the second one they brought to my table. I had already finished the first one, before the burger came. I didn’t eat the second bowl of soup, but the first was good. I love the bread they give as an appetizer.
I saw that the vessel San Alberto was travelling down the Cape Fear River toward the Atlantic Ocean. I wanted to see if the web cam at Southport would be able to capture the passing of the San Alberto. This web cam has a set of positions that it cycles through of various points of the Southport waterfront. You can’t control where or when the camera focuses in on a certain location, so I had to hope that it would capture the passing of the San Alberto, and you can see that it did.
I think the app says that the San Alberto is next destined for Norfolk, Virginia.
Web cams:
Downtown Wilmington [Surfchex]
Southport Waterfront Park [Surfchex] Should be able to see some ocean going vessels as they pass by (as San Alberton above).
Taco Bell is my “go to” place for a simple, comforting meal. I would like a beef burrito supreme, a bean burrito and a crunchy taco (regular). I might leave off the crunchy taco, or the burrito supreme sometimes.
I’ve spoken elsewhere about spiffing up my beets. I buy a cheap can of beets, sliced or whole, and pour off the canned liquid. I then add back some balsamic and red wine vinegar, with some sweetener (Equal). *Yesterday I was spiffing up some sliced beets and before pouring off the liquid, I tasted it. Surprisingly, the canned juice was both sweet and vinegary. I actually thought that if beets came in this sweet vinegar, I wouldn’t need to spiff them up myself. I then looked at the can and it said, “Pickled Beets”. I checked some other cans, and they didn’t say “pickled” but just sliced beets. These beets were bought at Walmart. If I can buy the beets with the sweet vinegar at a price close to the regular beets, I will. *I also thought that I might use the pickled beet juice to try and pickle some cauliflower. The white cauliflower would just soak up that reddish beet juice.
Late night, I decided to make some spinach dip. I checked and had a couple of packs of frozen spinach in the freezer. Just need one of those. Had the cream cheese, the Ranch Dressing packet, and some sour cream. Chopped up some yellow bell pepper and sweet onion, and a can of water chestnuts. Defrosted the frozen spinach and squeezed out most of the moisture. Mixed it all together and found some wheat crackers. It was good. I did not use a recipe for the amounts, and it might have been better if the ingredient portions were in the correct amounts.
Bill Gibson, II 