I’m so thankful for the kindness of strangers.

Without superb people on this earth, where would every one of us be? I suppose that I would be paying crazy high heating bills again this winter.

This is something I know for a fact because I had no idea how to prepare for a northern winter. I’m from the west where winter is just not a big deal unless you live in the mountains. Where I came from we had a heat pump and it came on now and again while in the winter. So when I took a job on the other side of the country and went up north, I had no idea what I was really getting into. But man, did I ever get a quick rude awakening. We moved in the fall and I was right away startled by how cool it was already. This was not a superb sign of things to come. Fortunately, the previous owner believed in really superb residential HVAC. The home had a furnace that was just many years old. The realtor commanded me to get the HVAC supplier to do the heating maintenance which I promptly had done. But that’s all I knew to do. I had no idea how to prepare the house. So there were some spaces that were allowing frigid air in and the heating to escape. That first winter saw the furnace running near non stop and yet there was such a draft that we were really frigid that whole winter. Thankfully, a friend straightened me out and we chased down that heating goblin together. It’s going to be a much warmer winter this year.

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