We weren’t as far south as the Magical Kingdom and that’s the only place in the south that I had visited during the Winter. Yea, I need to get out more but my vacation budget hasn’t exactly been well funded. Instead, I’m trying to keep 3 kids in college. But I remember that it was warm there even in February. And my dad even put on the air conditioning back at the motel one evening it was that warm in the room. It was one of those big, wall unit air conditioning systems and it was loud. It sure did belt out the cooling comfort though as the room became a fridge by the time I woke up the next morning. So this was all I had to go on as I faced my first Winter down here with just a heat pump for heating. This was the first Winter season that I had not had a gas furnace inspected and serviced by an HVAC professional. But in order to keep paying those tuition bills, I went for a promotion and got it. That promotion came with a move to the south where there aren’t gas furnaces. I knew it was going to be warmer here but I wasn’t expecting quite what we got. For sure, I was able to get outside every day of the Winter that it wasn’t raining. So I loved that. And we did get a couple of cold snaps that required me moving the thermostat over to heating. The heat pump was way more than I needed when it came to heating a house. And I loved that too. Now, I’m counting on that same heat pump for lots of air conditioning as I face my first Summer down here.