A Veil Of Fog

8:09

It's warming up, a balmy high of 43º today, thus the fog on the lake, the absence of any ice fishermen.  We should get rain later in the day and flood warnings are out on the weather apps.

Yesterday was a different day for me because I was heading to Cleveland. to University Hospital, for a calcium scan, a ten-minute scan of the chest for heart disease.  It's free to anyone and gives the patient some idea of the risk of a CV event.  It's sponsored by the Harrington Heart Institute. Interestingly, the Harringtons were friends of ours in Hudson, and I taught their son Ron.  My appointment wasn't until 2:30 but I decided to make a shopping day of it so I left at 10:00 for my first stop at Trader Joe's on Chagrin Blvd in Cleveland.  I was surprised at how busy it was, the parking lot full, as were most of the aisles.  It's always fun to shop there, lots of things that we don't need.  I loaded up first on wine and chocolate, drawing comments from a fellow shopper suggesting I was going to have a fun afternoon.  I ended up with a few types of cheese, their Applewood bacon, box wines, and chocolate after perusing all the aisles. I then walked around the Apple store, just for fun and browsed the aisles of Northface.

Afterward, I drove to Penzey's Spices, bought some cracked pepper and Vietnamese cinnamon before stopping at my favorite deli in Cleveland, Corky and Lennys. I sat at the counter, ordered the matzo ball soup and half of a corned beef sandwich.  The soup was good, the sandwich to die for, a couple inches thick with delicious corned beef.  It put the corned beef sandwich I had at Primanti Brothers deli in Erie to shame.  While I sat at the corner, a guy walked up and thought he knew me.  This is the third time in the last couple of months that someone thought they knew me. Strange.  I have eaten at Corky And Lenny's many times, mostly when they had a deli on Cedar.  Because I had some time left until my appointment, I did a quick run-through TJ Maxx and picked up a pair of running pants which proved to be too short when I returned home.

I drove to University Hospital in Concord, arriving at 2:15, registered, and had the CT scan and was back in my car, heading to the lake in 15 minutes, easy and quick.  On my way home, I decided to stop at Ortons Vegetable stand in Northeast, hoping to get a gallon of Pot Of Gold milk.  Unfortunately, the new owners are still experimenting with the quality so I will have to wait another month.  I ended up buying a still-warm homemade cherry pie, however, Evie's favorite. 

I was home around 4:30 and was happy to be able to relax until dinner time.  Evie sauteed some mushrooms because we were having New York strip steaks for dinner.  Before grilling them, we opened one of the box wines from Trader Joes and enjoyed a glass or two as I described my day in Ohio.  By 6:30, we were hungry, the baked potatoes were ready and Evie grilled the steaks on our cast iron grill pan.  Our steaks were a bit tough but tasty, the rest of dinner fine.  We watched the news, some home improvement shows and of course, a couple more episodes of Breaking Bad.  We only have a few episodes left in the series.  Walt just shot a fleeing Mike, surprise.