Nuts, Bolts - and a Decision

Eric continues to while away his time sorting screws and nails in the basement; he doesn't spend a lot of time at it, but it's a long-overdue project that is getting done, one I never expected to see happen. So, something good comes from isolation. 
 On our walk this afternoon, we checked out Radke's, the long-time auto parts store that closed last year. The business has a lot of local history, including that the owners lived in a house on an adjoining lot. When they added on to the house, they built around what was a small, young maple tree that now appears ready to break free.
Eric claims Radke's was the most famous speed shop, outside of California, in the 50s and 60s: if you wanted to put Offenhouser heads on your Ford, this was where you'd find them.
Also, we had an unexpected April Fools joke, only I don't know who the joke was on: me or our overworked health care system: ExtraDays ended up at the Kaiser Permanente Westside Hospital ER this morning. She had erractic heart pain in the night; called and was told to come in, but that was the exact opposite of what she wanted to hear - even when the ER doctor said if she was afraid to drive, he would send an ambulance to get her. That lowered her pulse, it actually did. She didn't go in, but did call again in the morning only to have the second ER doctor say she should come in. So we drove to the very place in the entire State with the most CoVid patients, the very place you would most want to not be bothering workers. She was thoroughly checked out with blood, Xray and EKG tests only to be told there was nothing amiss. 
She did have scary symptoms - a racing heartbeat, radiating pain in arm, neck, face, slight nausea - but no high temperature or coughing. BP was low (even with the high pulse) and the symptoms persisted for 45 minutes. It's funny how a person reacts; it wasn't frightening, it was more a dread of being a bother. 
The ER was empty at 11 in the morning. Very eerie; all the staff were wearing masks, but after a few quick questions, said I didn't need one. Workers were putting up two large tents in the parking lot, and the Xray tech told me the covid patients were isolated in a different part of the hospital. They had ten patients with 4 more being tested.