I don’t feel that Winter is entirely ever totally out of my head.
It’s now mid June and the central air conditioner has kicked on in the house.
That’s about as far away from Winter as the people I was with and I get around here. But when you live in a region where the Winter is brutal and lasts a minimum of 5 weeks, it tends to stick with you. For me, I’m already in prep mode for the coming Winter and the air conditioner hasn’t even been on for a few weeks. But I live out in the country and I have a nice bit of land. That’s where I spend a lot of my time while in the Summer get together firewood for the winter. The two of us have great residential Heating and Air Conditioning. The gas heating system does a great job of keeping us warm. But I also have a wood stove for supplemental heating and as an emergency heating source if the power goes out. Having a wood stove is great. I appreciate the sort of heating it puts out. There’s nothing entirely quite like it. It has the cozy feeling of radiant heating however separate from the moisture. However, there is plenty of prep that goes into using a woodstove for heating in the winter. Not only is there all that wood to cut, split and stack however I act as my own chimney sweep as well. The gas heating system gets the Heating and Air Conditioning service it needs each fall however that’s not from me. The Heating and Air Conditioning professionals trek out here to do the heating service. That’s the last bit of Winter prep I do. But I’ve got a long way to go before then.