I blame Cowboy for my hiding in the bedroom all day today.
Badger and I were up early.
She made breakfast, and we watched a little TV.
Cowboy surprised us by waking up early.
He ate his breakfast, talked with Heron a little, and next thing we know, we look over and he's sound asleep with his breakfast plate on his lap, coffee mug in hand.
He got up long enough to take care of his chickens and eat supper before going back to sleep until work.
His recliner is in the living room.
The living room is basically a bus station.
You have to go through it to do anything.
If you go outside, you wake him up by bumping into the recliner because it stretches out into the way.
If you go to the bathroom and trip over a cat and cuss the cat out because you see your life flashing before your eyes, you wake him up.
If you're sitting at your desk and you sneeze too loudly, you wake him up.
So, we head to the bedroom and watch TV behind a closed door.
It's not an ideal situation, but he refuses to go back to bed, and I don't have a workable solution.
Well, I do, but the old fart refuses to move that recliner.
He loves where it is.
That recliner’s been parked there since ’95, back when we had cable and couldn’t shift the TV out of its little corner.
We dumped cable years ago, but Cowboy still won’t budge it.
So, Badger and I spend a large part of the day in the bedroom.
By the time he leaves for work, there's not much evening left.
We get maybe five hours before it's time for bed ourselves.
I know he's a third-shift worker and sleeps during the day, and I don't know a way around it.
Not with the house laid out the way it is.
To be fair, he's been diagnosed with sleep apnea, but he never went for the overnight sleep study, so he doesn't have a machine or anything to treat it.
He sleeps better in that semi-upright position his recliner gives him.
I just wish we could rearrange the living room enough to get him out of the doorway.
That's what irritates all of us the most.
Wow, the thunder and lightning are crazy out there!
I'm just gonna shut down the computer and head back to my bedroom.
Don't want a power surge frying it.
Tomorrow is town day, so at least I’ll get to wander around Walmart.
Oh, quickly, before I do get struck by lightning.
The President is going to be in Knoxville for the UT game this weekend.
Why?
That's all, why?
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