Did our sauna tonttu miss
us?
One hot and mosquito-wild summer, we
stopped taking saunas. But on a fall evening, I fired up the (electric) stove and came back an hour later to enjoy my
first steam in a couple of months. As I opened the door, a cloud of smoke
engulfed me.
Alarmed, my dear Bill came back to
inspect — and found
smoke, though somewhat less than I had described. We called the local
fire department.
They brought a full contingent: a house
fire can be very serious business. Their thorough inspection brought
us relief — and a smile to the firemen’s faces. After they
removed the safety grate atop the kiuas and a few of the
rocks, they found the cause — a partially-burnt stash of sunflower
seed hulls.
A mousetrap confirmed our culprit: a
kangaroo mouse had visited the sauna and, while sitting on the grate, had eaten sunflower seeds and dropped hulls onto the rocks.
The smoke smell gradually disappeared.
But was it really a kangaroo mouse? Maybe our sauna tonttu was
angry at being forgotten.
Has your sauna tonttu
left you messages?
Nikki
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