well , hello , ed.-youre up and out early.-ed came up the steps and stepped inside.-it was too cool to stand with the door open.-when he took off his cap , chrissy could see his receding hair line.-she could remember a few years earlier when his dark brown hair had been full and wavy.-he had refused to change the way he combed it to hide some of the balding spots , though.-ed had declared that he was an old man and he might as well look as old as he was.-he was only forty , but chrissy didnt feel that either of her parents was old.-ed was still athletically built and there wasnt an ounce of fat on his nearly six foot frame.-his one hundred sixty pounds was all lean muscle .