When we moved up north, it was just temporary or so I was told.
So I wanted to be supportive of my wife’s career as she was in line for a big promotion.
The idea of moving from the south, where the winter is so great that we hardly even turn on the heat pump for heating, wasn’t appealing. I’ve spent my whole life with that sort of winter so I wasn’t at all eager to change that up. Besides, my wife said that it would be a couple of years if that before she turned that regional office around. Then, we could come back home and she would go back to work inside the zone controlled HVAC of the corporate offices she left. But this time, it’d be in an executive capacity. All she had to do was fix the regional office up north. Well, this will be our fourth winter coming up. I haven’t heard a word about us going home anytime soon so I think that I’m in this for a while. It starts getting cold in mid October so I’m starting now with winter prep. This is something I hadn’t done prior because this was all supposed to be so temporary. Thankfully, I have great neighbors who have really helped me figure out a lot of things that I had no idea about. I’m starting from top to bottom in an effort to seal the house up super tight. That means more insulation and sealing off the perimeter of the attic. Then, I’m replacing storm doors and checking to be sure that all the window are properly insulated. I’m in good hands and I plan to save a good deal of money on HVAC heating this winter.