I really loved the summer where I used to live.
Actually, that region was where I called home all of my life until a year or so ago.
Being raised in the far north comes with plenty of winter. And I mean a very serious, long, cold and snowy winter. That meant we had to deal with the elements for more than six months at least. That’s a lot of heating. I was fortunate to always have great heating methods in the homes I owned. Even the home I grew up in had a giant boiler in the basement. That was some of the coziest heating a person can find. I loved that radiant heating. But it was the summer, however brief it was, that I really loved. The days were warm and the evening were always nice and cool. However, as I aged, the winters really started to take a toll on my both physically and mentally. So when my wife and I retired, we made the decision to move south to the sun and the mild winter. It wasn’t an easy decision but it was the right one. Still, it is taking me some time to get accustomed to all this HVAC cooling. I never even had any sort of air conditioning in any of the homes I lived in back up north. So it was a bit of a change for me to have air conditioning from early spring right through until nearly November. Yet, I’m awfully thankful to have the heat pump and the air conditioning. Getting through the summer would be just about impossible with it. But it’s a fair trade because the temperature for 8 months of the year is just perfect.