It Almost Always Snows

My urologist operates (so to speak) out of the hospital in Smiths Falls. It is only a half hour drive, or even a bit less, but it seems like an ill-fated drive. No, that's not the right way to put it, so let me just say that my winter appointments there seem to more often than not occur in snowy weather.

This has been true for about 18 years now and has become almost a standing joke, except it isn't really very funny. In the recent catheter crisis, I actually cancelled my removal appointment when the weather promised to be even worse than usual.

Tuesday was my 6-week debriefing, and just look at the weather. The first two pics were taken as we were about to leave our town. The third photo was taken farther along; thankfully, the snow was no longer accumulating was gone by then.

The doc and I had no great concerns to share with each other. For my part, the clotting has stopped. For his part, the biopsy proved to not to be cancerous. However, he still has some concern with it as it doesn't appear quite normal either, so he has scheduled another cystoscope for June when at least it won't be snowing. I did apprise him the problem that I had with home care, or the lack of such, and he promised to look into it.

The ride home was uneventful, and we stopped off for breakfast — a scrambled wrap for me with a hollandaise sauce for dipping along with a generous helping of home fries.

In a sense, the big breakfast for two only cost $12.70 because we had a $50 gift card which was given to us after we spent $12K on a new furnace and AC last summer. First, I drained the gift card, and then I used my regular card to pay the rest, the larger portion of which was the tip.

It was the tip plus this ↓ that put us over the top.

From where Sue sat, she could stare directly at a chocolate cake on the counter. We decided to order a piece to share. I'm glad we shared, for it was $8/per slice. We should have known, for a friend recently paid $100 for a whole cake from this restaurant. Mind you, it was big enough for a large party, but still . . .

The cost for this breakfast was in addition to breakfast at the sugar shack last week and means that we have spent a very large whack of dough on breakfast this month. That is a lot for us, and there is a dinner or two to come, but I'll get to that later.

I must say that both the breakfast and cake were very good. Sue maintains, however, that the cake was not $8 good.