Sam....

When Mattie and John left yesterday, Sam would have gladly gone with them. He followed Mattie to the car and was ready to get in with her. He seemed confused that he wasn't going too. John patted him and drove the car over to the garage to load his belongings. Sam stayed right with the car. I hated to see John leave even more than Sam hated to see Mattie leave.

I held Sam's collar until they were out the driveway so he wouldn't follow them. He settled down quickly and took a nap.

He seemed to enjoy his regular routine for the rest of the day and evening. He came in after dark and went to sleep on the floor behind me in the red room where I was working on the computer. Mama and I went to bed but he was apparently too sleepy to move because for once he did not follow us upstairs at that time.

He woke me at 5:30 (I got a whole extra 1/2 hour of sleep.) and was ready to go out. I fed him and he ate about half of his food and came in for another nap. Maybe I should be doing the same thing.....?