This is the third winter that I’ve spent down here and I’m still loving every minute of it.
I thought that maybe I would acclimate to this climate in such a way that I’d actually be asking for some heating from my residential HVAC.
But we’re into January now and my heat pump is still basically silent. Not that the heat pump doesn’t get plenty of work the rest of the year. The four months of the summer demand an amount of air conditioning that keeps the heat pump running almost night and day. And the shoulder seasons require cooling as well. So it’s nice that the heat pump has some time off before it all starts again come mid March. Moving down here, I knew that I was going to embrace being outside all winter long. I’m so thankful that I was able to get the transfer I had been seeking for a long time. My wife is from the south and she is wanted to come back home for a long time. Initially, I had to sort of make my bones inside the commercial HVAC of the office I worked in straight out of college. And to my wife’s credit, she stuck it out all those winters and this has been the payoff. It’s just so nice not to have to deal with the type of temperatures that require constant heating. I still can get up each morning and sip my coffee outside and don’t need of any big overcoat or anything like that. I soak in every minute of it because it won’t be too long before the heat pump is kicking back on and we’re dealing with all kinds of heat and humidity again.