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 our husband constantly 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 loved doing the chores together. The house services I had contacted a day earlier were going to send a heating business to install a digital temperature control that we knew would work so well with the dual-fuel plan we had. It was also time for a furnace/heater tune-up for the oil furnace and a heat pump maintenance 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 the two of us would have to make do with what we have. The heating serviceman from the local heating supplier was absolutely punctual and went about his job absolutely fast and left. The furnace filter had been changed a week earlier and it did not need replacement yet. When my husband was cleaning our wood-burning fireplace he discovered many tiny kittens but their mother was nowhere in sight. This would explain why we had not seen our dog all day. We carefully moved them to a more comfortable place. The mother came in a few hours 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.