I don’t think that Winter is really ever totally out of our head.
It’s now mid June & the central a/c has kicked on in the house.
That’s about as far away from Winter as all of us get around here. But when you live in a region where the Winter is brutal & lasts a minimum of several months, it tends to stick with you. For me, I’m already in prep mode for the coming Winter & the a/c hasn’t even been on for a few weeks. But I live out in the country & I have a nice bit of land. That’s where I spend a lot of our time during the Summer gathering firewood for the winter. Both of us have good residential Heating & A/C. The gas furnace does a good task of keeping us warm. But I also have a wood stove for supplemental heating & as an emergency heating source if the power goes out. Having a wood stove is great. I enjoy the sort of heating it puts out. There’s nothing really quite love it. It has the cozy feeling of radiant heating but without 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, cut & stack despite the fact that I act as our own chimney sweep as well. The gas furnace gets the Heating & A/C repair it needs each fall but that’s not from me. The Heating & A/C professionals trek out here to do the heating repair. That’s the last bit of Winter prep I do. But I’ve got a long way to go before then.