Up down up down up down.  Nope, not a yo-yo.  Nope, not a sewing machine needle.  Yep, Me, making laps up and down the stairs this evening.  When I got home this evening, Roger seemed a little off.  We ate dinner and the silence seemed to increase, as did the slump to his posture both of which are usually indicators that he isn't feeling that great. So, after a while I went upstairs (trip number 1 of many) and started a bath for Roger.  Turned on the space heater in the bathroom to additionally warm the bathroom and then went back down stairs to my little rolled up ball of a husband.  In the gap behind him, I wedged myself so that I could wrap my arms and legs around him.  And quietly rested my head against Roger's back.  Blah blah blah of the TV droned on in the background and we sat there.  With my cheek against Roger's back, I could feel virtually every bone in his back & shoulders.  Takes my breath away. 

Then, after a while he (before the tub overflowed!) Roger went up and took a bath to ease the aches and pains.  I made a couple trips back upstairs to check on him, "Need something to drink?  Need a towel?  Need anything?" And then made my way back downstairs.   Later, as I heard the water draining from the tub, I made my way back upstairs to find Roger resting in bed.  So, I crawled onto the bed next to him and watched TV with him ...a program about Mini Coopers....ugh.  Oh well, it entertained Roger.  I hung out for about 20 minutes then had to give up....the program was putting me to sleep!  Anyway, he's feeling a little better.  Couple more trips up the stairs and down the stairs and back up to retrieve the evening collection of medicines, our cell phones, and turn off all the lights downstairs and now we are settled in bed along with one of our four-legged, heat-seeking beasts, Yoda.  I anticipate, Hemmi will join later in the middle of the night once we are fast a sleep. 

Later this week, if the weather cooperates and Roger's body cooperates (more important than the weather, really), he is planning on making a trip down to the boat to check on it.  We THINK the boat is still floating and in one piece after tornadoes ravaged southern Indiana and northern Kentucky.  We've employed the proverbial ostrich approach...stick your head in the sand and hope like hell everything is ok.  Also, he wants to try to do a couple projects while down there.  One of the motors is partially disassembled because it needs work. So, I think he'll be doing something related to that.  The goal is to get the boat up and running in tip top shape by spring/early summer.  Ultimately Roger really wants to move the boat to Florida through the river ways. His goal is to keep it moored down there and then we fly down several times during the year to use it.  We don't see eye to eye on this topic....not the first time we haven't seen eye to eye.

Giving up to get some shut eye. Nights are never long enough.  g'nite.  love, a & r