It was family clean up day, the day every member of my family woke up ailing from unknown illnesses and pains, all this to avoid our infamous general cleaning.
- Even my husband always tried to come up with a new trick or excuse but neither he 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 contractor to install a digital thermostat that we knew would work so well with the dual-fuel system we had. 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 new heating equipment to help with indoor comfort but we haven’t decided on which one yet so we would have to make do with what we have. The heating technician from the local heating dealer was very punctual and went about his work very fast And left. The furnace filter had been changed a month earlier and it did not need replacement yet. When my husband was cleaning our wood-burning fireplace he discovered three 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 place. The new mother came in a few minutes 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 places she had chosen that spot as her delivery spot.