HOORAY! i'm back online!!! only took an hour & a half.
of course, all my other equipment still needs to be set back up, but it's in place & readied for the hook-up.

hubby is exhausted from working too many for the past couple of months, so i can wait until tomorrow night for the rest to be re-connected.
and dang! omg i was so nervous about climbing on the roof in the dark.
i guess i'm getting weird paranoid in my aging years.
(hubby is more scared than i am. i always have to climb the ladder to hang the christmas lights. he hands them to me. lol)
it was the ladder part, getting up there & down that made me nervous.
once i was up on the roof i was superwoman! haha
AND YEAH DOODLEBIRD! POST YER STUFF!
& thanks again everyone for the kind & motivational words.