Moving north for school was only supposed to be temporary.
The fact that I got a scholarship to a school up north was something that I couldn’t refuse.
But even at that age, I was less than excited about dealing with the winter. My dorm room was consistently so cold. My Mom brought up a space oil furnace however both of us weren’t allowed to have them. I spent those 4 years bundled up and going from 1 Heating and A/C heating idea to the next. Little did I believe then that I would be spending the rest of our adult life dealing with heating during the winter. And truthfully, until recently, that has been a losing battle. I met our husband at school and both of us decided to take tasks in the north. The two of us ended up settling down and having a family up here as well. It was wonderful in so many ways however the southern boy in me never got accustomed to a gas furnace or any other type of heating method. But fortunately, that all changed when both of us built our home once the teenagers were on their own. Our choice of Heating and A/C heating and cooling is a geothermal heat pump. It’s a particularly efficient and long lasting source of heating and cooling. Yet that’s not what I like about the heating part. Our heat comes from radiant floor heating. That’s copper tubing under the floors that radiate heating upward. It’s the coziest, best heating I have ever enjoyed. And I get to go barefoot whenever I want all Winter long. So the southern boy in me finally won 1 over Winter and all this cold weather.