A Doberman Sundial

I do not have a desk at home so if I am working from home for my day job I tend to work from the kitchen table.  If I am facing my monitor (let’s call that 12 o’clock) then at about 10 o’clock I can see the back yard out the windows of our back doors.  At 3 o’clock I can see the living room and (through the picture window) the front yard.  One of the minor reasons I work from home is so the dogs don’t have to be in their cages for 7+ hours while the wife is away to work.  I wonder though as I watch them throughout the day if it really matters.  Other than a trip or two outside they pretty much just lay like slugs around the house.  This is probably what they would do in their cages I imagine.

While Oreo spends about 90% of his time on the couch, Nina mixes it up by laying all around the house.  Her places include the floor near my feet, her (open) cage, the kitchen and (depending on the location of the sun) various places in the living room.  Her position in the living room is very specific in that it is always in the sunlight.  She is so consistent that I can tell what time it is from her position, sort of like a Doberman sundial.

Above is the earliest time recorded on my living sundial.  This is about 8:30 am.  Technically she is in the hallway / entryway.  The sun heads from left to right until it reaches the the easternmost wall in the living room.

The above picture is around 1:30 pm and just out of the picture to the right is the bookshelf that is against the wall of the living room.  Once the sun is gone from the living room, Nina then randomly picks another spot to lay or goes outside to catch more sun in the back yard.  She did this in the heat of the summer when we lived in Texas and sometimes while she is in the back yard you can almost read her body language as saying, “What did y’all (she was born in Texas) do with the heat?”

I have a wired network connection ran to the back bedroom now and we are in the market for a desk to put back there so I can have a real place to work.  Once I move back there I will have to rely on the clock as my sundial will not be viewable from there.

Jon