Tuesday, January 26, 2010

As is usual....


As is usual, I find myself wide a wake again in the middle of the night and this time I was up very early because of the time I went to bed. It was just after 8 pm when I crawled under the covers with my book. I don't know what it is, but lately I have not felt like staying up at night and I have felt like getting into bed early and I look forward to that very much. It is always my plan to read for a long time, but I fall asleep fairly soon. Unfortunately, I wake up 4 or 5 hours later, ready to see some action. That means turning on the computer and reading any emails that are there and answering those and downloading photographs from Foxsaver for my blog, amongst other things. I have to look through a lot of photographs to find the ones I like and even then I'm in doubt and after a while I can't see the forest for the trees and I have to stop searching.

The book I'm reading, "Sullivan's Island," is so different than "Prodigal Summer," that it is taking me some effort to get into it. I'm not taking it quite seriously and I think I have to regard it as 'light' reading. I'm going to persist and read it and not put it aside as being unworthy of being read, but it's not the kind of book I was in the mood for reading. I wanted more of an intellectual challenge and this one is too easy coming after "Prodigal Summer." I hate to leave a book unfinished, though, because it may be good in its own right, in spite of the fact that I'm not in the right mood for it. It got good reviews, so there must be some merit to it. I guess I'm a very picky reader.

Jesker and I very slowly and carefully took a little walk last night. It took him some effort and he drank a lot of water when we got home. He did eat three slices of salami, one with a pill in it, so that was something. He didn't eat the Bonzo bone that I gave him. He took that in his mouth and dropped it. I tried to give him some of his regular food, but he's not interested. He's lost a lot of weight, but he can stand it and is now starting to look like a normal sized dog.

Well, I'm off to eat some breakfast and then I'm going to tackle that book again in my bed. Hopefully I'll be fascinated by it this time. Brrr... it's cold. It's -3C outside.

Have a good morning!

Ciao,
Nora

5 comments:

CorvusCorax12 said...

good to hear Jesker is doing a little better. I hope you have a good day yourself

laurie said...

do you have anything you can pour over his food? canned chicken broth, or canned beef broth--to tempt him? maybe a little boiled chicken?

Gail said...

Great to hear Jesker is improving.

Nezzy (Cow Patty Surprise) said...

Good to read you little Jesker is doin' better. This chick agrees with Laurie, if you add a little bacon grease,hamburger grease, or any of the liquids she mentioned I have had luck gettin' results with that.

From the hills and hollers of the Ozarks, ya'll have a wonderfully blessed day!!!

Friend of the Bear said...

Hi Nora. I wish I wanted to go to bed early! I'm still doing really badly on that one.

Great that Jesker ate the salami.

It has been cold here too the last couple of days.

Bearfriend xx