Step-ups

The Wednesday gym routine of treadmill, rowing machine and exercise bike was augmented today by step-ups, an exercise I studiously avoid to prevent undue pressure on worn out knees but necessarily completed via multiple climbs of the ladder as part of the on-going, somewhat lacklustre, progress of repairing the barn roof; with each batten made to measure for its place between the asymmetric purlins I was up and down with  bits of wood, like squirrel hoarding his nuts before winter sets in, but without the bright eyes and bushy tail bit.