It was family clean up day, the day every member of our family woke up ailing from unknown illnesses and pains.
All this to avoid our infamous general cleaning, even my partner always tried to come up with a new trick or excuse but neither she nor the kids ever got away with it, but they all secretly enjoyed doing the chores together. The home services I had contacted a day earlier were going to send a heating company to install a digital control machine that we knew would work so well with the dual-fuel program we had, but it was also time for a furnace/heater tune-up for the furnace and a heat pump service for the electric heat pump. We had been thinking of getting a new heating unit to help with indoor comfort but we have not decided on which one yet so we would have to make do with what we have. The heating specialist from the local heating supplier was genuinely punctual and went about her work genuinely fast And left. The furnace filter had been changed a month earlier and it did not need replacement yet, and when our partner was cleaning our wood-burning fireplace she discovered several tiny kittens but their mother was nowhere in sight. This would explain why we had not seen our cat all morning. We carefully moved them to a more comfortable site. The new mother came in a few seconds later to feed her little ones. We had filled her bowl with a special treat because she would need all the energy she could get. We still could not figure out why of all the sites she had chosen that spot as her delivery spot.