.”He lifted her legs and slid a rock under her feet. “I use that rock to warm my feet by the fire. You warm yours while I go get the socks.”When...he returned, he held the socks near the fire until they were warm, then slipped them on her feet before sitting her boots nearer the fire to warm, too. “The warm socks should help, but keep your feet on the rock for awhile,” he said with a smile. Taking her coffee cup, he topped it up before putting in a little more sugar and creamer. Realizing that. Back at the house, in a pouring sweat, he decided to lay down and take a nap. Caleb had come over with us, as we planed to maybe cook out later. Dustin heads for the basement, and Caleb goes for his old room for both to nap out. I'm just fooling around in the kitchen, kinda doing some prep with the hamburger meat, and the baked beans, and potato salad. I decided to head for the basement myself, and take a shower—I was pretty sweated up myself and really funky :) Upon exiting the shower and. ..ha, ha, (Beth laughs quietly to herself) you were so embarrassed and then you turned beet red, as you did when I mentioned about the cologne you were wearing for me. That was so precious, both times, blushing and you didn't get angry when I ran the tractor into the bushes, you were so patient with me, and you are always so polite and always a gentleman. I'm sure that Margaret saw to that, your good manners...it seems few people have good manners these days. Margaret told me everything.... I was deposited in medical and saw a great mass of people helping the Sarine's patients awake. It was good to see a familiar face when first waking up. Selene guided me to a group of tanks and some familiar faces around. I walked up and Rick Semta, one of the men, patted my shoulder at my promotion."Congratulations. I didn't think any one of us would make it this high this fast. Did you get this posting because you and Tom took out the most fighters?" I didn't know that. How many did you get?".