Dr Murks turned the page. There is written 2007 on the bottom of the page now. Dr Murks already has a small vision of the picture that will be drawn on the page and witch kind of colors to use and what will be written there... But it is not jet time to dive into dreams, better to describe events already happened.
They went on a trip to the South. Standing on the edge of the world, hills and woods belonging to Latvia seen on the other side, the sky went suddenly break and a bit wet snow started to fell down. "Christmas miracle! Christmas miracle!" they screamed. To dance and jump and run in the snowfall! Then they found a stone-round in the garden of local witchcraft, took one stone and made the round and put the stone somewhere in the round wishing something concrete and nice for the next year. Old oak-trees showed the way to the ruins of watermill by the pearl river and it started to go dark... Time to sit back in their red carriage and ride to the Dirty Teeth village where were waiting stoves and smoke-sauna to be heated and potatoes, meat, sauerkraut, black budding to be made for eating. House had no electricity but they had many candles and oil-lamp taken with, so the house turned to be as bright as candle-light can make.
They made the saun. Saun is a small house you heat till the temperature reaches at least 80 degrees, sometimes even 120. Then you take off your cloths and will go to the hot room to make your body hot-hot and beat yourself (or somebody else beats) with special broom made of branches of birch. It really cleans your body and soul. They had smoke-saun. This is a special form of saun with no chimney. It means all the smoke is coming in the room. You heat it long, for about 6 hours till the stones on the stove will get very hot, then you will take out the glowing coals and open all doors and windows. It takes about 15 minutes, then you close the doors and may go in. The stones heat the room and if you throw water on the stones it make water vapor to heat your body even more. More, more, more!!! Dr Murks likes specially to jump into the snow or throw cold water on the skin in between going to the hot saun. Special pleasure! And it was snowing during a day - what a nice saun-evening!
For the moment of turning the page there was a need to but up a fire. All the snow was melting already and the bower of fire-light should defeat the darkness of the night. It certainly did.
This is approximately how it was.
They made the saun. Saun is a small house you heat till the temperature reaches at least 80 degrees, sometimes even 120. Then you take off your cloths and will go to the hot room to make your body hot-hot and beat yourself (or somebody else beats) with special broom made of branches of birch. It really cleans your body and soul. They had smoke-saun. This is a special form of saun with no chimney. It means all the smoke is coming in the room. You heat it long, for about 6 hours till the stones on the stove will get very hot, then you will take out the glowing coals and open all doors and windows. It takes about 15 minutes, then you close the doors and may go in. The stones heat the room and if you throw water on the stones it make water vapor to heat your body even more. More, more, more!!! Dr Murks likes specially to jump into the snow or throw cold water on the skin in between going to the hot saun. Special pleasure! And it was snowing during a day - what a nice saun-evening!For the moment of turning the page there was a need to but up a fire. All the snow was melting already and the bower of fire-light should defeat the darkness of the night. It certainly did.
This is approximately how it was.
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