So perhaps we picked the wrong time to move south.
Moving here in the middle of July is for sure one way to get a taste of what Summer will be like for the rest of my life.
But moving here has constantly been the plan. Still, I’m not going anywhere but the central a/c of our new place during the afternoon heat in addition to humidity, then just walking to the car turns me into a sweaty mess. I guess I’m going to have to get one of those remote starter for the car. It would be so nice if I could start the car in addition to get the a/c running a bit before I go someplace. It literally takes me five minutes to cool the car down before I can leave the driveway. And know me, that five minutes is a tepid one even with the a/c on max. Yet, I know that we made the right decision. While this level of Summer heat is going to be tough to acweather conditions to, I’m all for it. The easy fact is that I just couldn’t take anymore winter time weather. Having grown up with all that cold, I was just done. Never again do I want to see or need a gas heater. While I’m awfully thankful that we had such fine heating from our gas heater, I just can’t do that sort of frosty any longer. Now that we made it to the retirement finish line, I’m sticking with the heat pump for all of my heating in addition to cooling needs. But from what I understand, there won’t be all that much need for heating in my future. My neighbor says that she doesn’t even turn on the heat pump in the Winter. She has a space furnace that she deploys if it’s a bit cold in the morning.