timeline padlet by Lola Groth

Event #1

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-14 20:23:03 UTC

This is the first part of the story when the house had just woken up. The house was singing to everyone to get up as if it was worried nobody would. The stove starts making toast and eggs and a giant breakfast.

Event #2

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-14 20:28:52 UTC

At this time it was 9:15 and the robot mice came out of the wall to clean. They were thudding against chairs while cleaning. The house was finally clean at 10 o'clock.

Event #3

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-14 20:34:18 UTC

After the mice cleaned, there was a dog that whined at the door. It was "gone to bone" is what they said and had sores on him as he tracks in mud through the house. The angry mice were behind him cleaning up his mess.

Event #4

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-14 20:38:21 UTC

The dog ran upstairs and was yelping at each door but realized that there was nobody there. When the dog came back downstairs it smelt pancakes being made in the kitchen. At 2:15 the dog left.

Event #5

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-14 20:43:11 UTC

At four thirty in the nursery room there were yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers it said. You could hear the rain outside from there. The author also said that it was the children's hour.

Event #6

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-14 20:47:39 UTC

The fire had started and the cigar that was lit fell into ashes. There were empty chairs that faced each other. It said that at 10 o'clock the house started to die.

Event #7

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-14 20:49:48 UTC

A tree fell into the house through the kitchen window. There was cleaning solvent and glass shattered everywhere and the house was "ablaze."

Event #8

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-14 20:53:20 UTC

The fire grew and it went up the stairs. It burned paintings that were on the walls. It spread even more and got to the bedrooms and set fire to the beds as it said. It stood in windows and it turned the drapes different colors because of the fire.

Event #9

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-14 20:56:11 UTC

The fire was "clever" as the author said, and it made its way up to the attic. There was an explosion when it got up there. The pumps were shattered and turned to bronze.

Event #10

lrgro2026 — 2023-12-15 15:24:48 UTC

At the end of the story, the author describes how the attic smashed into the kitchen. Everything was falling apart in the house. There was smoke everywhere and it was still silent in the house.