Another warm day, started sunny and bright but bands of threatening clouds started gathering in the afternoon, and we had flurries in the evening. I took Anya around the park at school, and to the dog park at 1pm. Still a fair amount of snow on the ground. We may have more by tomorrow morning.
As I write, Anya is curled up on my son's bed. She will wander in and out through the night, and probably spend a part of tomorrow there. This is not the same as, say, sleeping in a stable, but Anya makes a wonderful security blanket. Small wonder that J.M. Barrie picked a St Bernard to be the nanny for the children in Peter Pan.
We tend to think of house and barn as very separate spaces, and even when it is very cold it somehow seems uncivilized to sleep with farm animals (I'm thinking here of the Ingall's family's Long Winter... Why did they persist in keeping the horse in the barn? Why not have them all sleep together? Livestock give off a lot of heat... there's a history of houses somewhere with barn below and human quarters above: fragrant, but warm. Somewhere in Germany... can't put my finger on it now.
Kind of gives one pause, thinking about heating options, doesn't it? If my son can sleep with a St Bernard, why can't we sleep with the cows?
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