Even tough we are in Spain, we have a winter here. To celebrate this cold and rainy sunday, I desided to write about warmth. Warmth is important to us and Nuka. We know we are after warmth, but when bringing Nuka home, we didn't know someone could be so passionate in this matter. Of course we saw the marks in the air, when Nuka first arrived to Jyväskylä on a hot day of July. She wasn't at all bothered about the hot car.
The warm sunny days of spanish autumn Nuka spent in our yard's hottest place standing there her tail straight. Once I moved my deck chair there, but I couldn't stay there longer than fifteen minutes. Nuka easily spent there half a day. Circulation of the sun seemed to determine Nuka's favourite places to do her tasks in our yard. The morning started from our porch and the left corner of our backyard. Little by little Nuka moved next to the car, on the side of our house and frontyard . The end of the day she spent again in the left corner of our backyard. As the sun went down Nuka walked slowly inside to have a nap.
As the autumn got colder and turned in to winter, we had to think about the warming of our home. We live in "not so new" one-family house and the temperature inside the house tends to drop in the same level as outside. So, we bought a big gas heater. At first Nuka was a bit suspicious about the big black cube in the living room, but soon she realised what we had bought: it was a large dog heater of course.
After that she always runned next to her heater when she came back inside. In that too, Nuka was testing the limits of human tolerance. I don't understand how someone can hang out only twenty centimetres away from gas heater. My own legs were still nearly burning half metres away. Well our Nuka has her own ideas about warm issues. -Marianna 5.2.2006
