Cold spell around here has people flustered

For a solid week now, we have had freezing cold weather.

Everyone knows I live in the south, and to have freezing cold weather is unusual for us, even in the winter time.

That does not mean that it never happens, however. Occasionally, there is the need to turn off the air conditioning and switch the thermostat button over to the heating section. It can’t get much easier than that, quite frankly. Can it? We don’t have blizzards in the winter. Every once in a blue moon we will get a snow flurry. That happens from time to time, and you will find people who are able to catch it with their phone video and post it on social media. Other than that, though, for the most part, cold weather really causes people around here to be flustered. We have a lot of young adults who are out of the home for the first time, being a college town and all, and they rarely know what to do when this cold weather strikes. They do not realize they should go outside and turn on the outdoor faucets to a slow drip so that they don’t freeze and break. Anyway, most of them do not even know about heating systems. If it is a simple heating and cooling system, they can handle it, but if it is more complicated, such as a heat pump or a furnace that has a pilot light that needs to be lit, they have no idea what to do.I will admit that this year I have run the heating system more than any other year. I turned my thermostat setting up to 70 degrees and have pretty much left it there.

 

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There have been many Christmases where I have run the air conditioning

We are at the conclusion of my favorite time of year.

  • Christmas time is absolutely the best time of year without a doubt.

Christmas is the time of year when Christians around the world gather to celebrate the same event – the time that God entered our world and became one of us in order to be able to save us. Even people who are not Christian acknowledge Christmas as a significant time of year. For example, during Wars when one side is not a Christian religion, it is commonplace to have a peace treaty during the Christmas season. In addition, even people who claim to have no faith whatsoever still will put up a Christmas tree and buy gifts for their loved ones. In other words, love and expressions of Love abound during the Christmas season. Another thing I like about the Christmas season is the weather. On many Christmas vacations, I have turned off the air conditioning and turned on the heater. There are times, however, when even at Christmas time I was still running the AC. This is what happens when you live in the south. There are many Christmases where you have to run the air conditioning in order to stay comfortable. This year, though, I have been truly blessed. The weather has been quite cold in both the night and the day, so the heater has been necessary. I prefer to have a little bit of cold weather, even if it means a little bit of a higher utility bill because of the heating costs. Anyway, I have also been fortunate because my heating system has worked pretty well and has kept the house nice and toasty warm.

 

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My dog is hanging out next to the AC vent

It Is not an unusual sight to see my dog hanging out next to the AC vent.

Just about all summer long, in fact, my beautiful girl can be seen soaking up the air-conditioning.

It is true that down here in the South most of us use our air conditioners pretty much the majority of the year. In fact, I have to use the air conditioning 12 months out of the year. That is not every year, of course, but there have been years when it has been 90 degrees outside while I am cooking Christmas dinner. Anyway, my dog is in the same spot right there next to the HVAC vent. This time, though, she is not soaking up the air conditioning. Is soaking up the heating! That’s right, even down here in the South, we are having a pretty cold winter. Granted, it is nothing like what you see on the news up there in Buffalo or wherever, but for us it is very cold. Every night it has been below freezing. Today I see a notice on my computer that says temperatures will be rising, and normally that makes me quite sad. Now, however, seeing that little temperatures will rise notification makes me quite happy. Anyway, my dog is no fool. She knows that the good are oh, with the good indoor air quality, it’s what comes out of the HVAC vents. Whether that means air conditioning or heating makes no difference to her.I normally don’t like to run the forced air heating system very much. I often worry about what it’s going to cost me when the monthly bill comes in. Around here, it seems as if it costs more to run the heater than it does to run the AC. I’m not 100% sure if that’s true or not, but it certainly seems true anyway.

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I normally use the fireplace for ambiance but now it's for heating

I have always enjoyed having a fireplace in my house.

I have never had any kind of fireplace other than the kind that burns wood.

In other words, the old-fashioned kind, that way back in the day used to serve as the heater for the home. Well, just about everyone knows that a regular old-fashioned wood burning fireplace is not really the best source of heating for anyone’s home. Unless modifications are made to it, Heywood burning fireplace sends most of the heating it creates straight up the chimney. Therefore, the only thing getting warm because of your fireplace are the birds who are smart enough to hang out on the Roof near the chimney. Anyway, this is how it’s always been for me. I generally use the fireplace only rarely, and I never count on it as a source of heating. I pretty much use the fireplace for Ambiance only. In other words, I like the way it looks and the crackle and the romance of it. That being said, this year I am using the fireplace as another heater. Yes I have Central Heating and Cooling, and I have it turned on. This winter has been exceptionally cold in my neck of the woods. Therefore, I am taking my heat wherever I can get it. I have used a portable heater that you plug into the wall, the furnace portion of my HVAC system, and the fireplace, all in an effort to let them help each other keep my house nice and toasty warm.Although the fireplace may not be the best source of heating, it certainly doesn’t add to the chill effect. If you are having an exceptionally cold winter, I recommend that you get all your heating everywhere you can as well. Oh yeah, don’t forget to wear a sweater, the best source of heating is your own body.

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My father moved into the garage.

My father has regularly been odd, but he got worse when mom and I started an pet shelter in our backyard.

Both of us thought it would be our donation to the pet community, but dad hated it.

Both of us had to install a weird Heating, Ventilation & A/C system in the house, and all of us needed to make swings in the backyard. He walked around grumbling about how much it cost to have an pet shelter, and how he was tired of it, and there weren’t any pets yet. He and mom argued about the cost of the current air filters, and that she didn’t want an air purification system until all of us talked about the pets. He said he had wanted a current Heating, Ventilation & A/C system, but the cost was regularly prohibitive. Mom thought that rescuing pets and finding homes for them was more pressing than the cost of a current Heating, Ventilation & A/C system. I could understand dad’s complications, but I also knew how mom felt. When dad moved into the garage, I knew it was more drastic than I had imagined. He called the Heating, Ventilation & A/C supplier and had a current ductless Heating, Ventilation & A/C system installed. While waiting for the Heating, Ventilation & A/C system, he had a washroom installed, complete with a shower, and petitioned off an area for a private kitchen. The lock on the door was the final straw for mom, then she said she didn’t get married to sleep alone, but dad told her he didn’t get married to have pets take over his home. I could see my family falling apart, but as deep into pet rescuing as mom was, I could only see it getting worse.

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Ice cream consistently tastes best in the summer.

There is something about an ice cream cone that makes summer time so much easier to deal with… Feeling that cold ice cream melt over your fingers makes me chuckle, however when I lick the cone plus it slides along on my tongue, I have to smile, then an ice cream cone makes me happy, however last week, I found out that an ice cream cone makes my puppy happy too; He took the entire thing out of my hand plus walked over to the air vent to eat it! The cool air coming from the air vent was enough to keep it from melting so easily, but some of the ice cream was still getting inside the air vent, i was sure that even with the a/c on, it was still going to get inside plus curdle.

Ice cream is mostly milk.

I was imagining the smell of sour milk permeating throughout the house. As soon as my puppy was done with his ice cream, I pulled the air vent cover to scrub up inside the air duct. Ice cream was in the air duct plus dripping off the air vent cover. After cleaning up the mess, I made a mental note to never let my puppy have an ice cream cone. I noticed there was more than ice cream inside the air duct. I called the Heating, Ventilation plus A/C supplier plus told them how this air duct was almost clogged shut. I started opening up the air vent covers plus looking inside. The air ducts were clogged with dirt. I was happy I had given my puppy the ice cream, or I would have never known my air duct was blocked with dust plus dirt.

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My pet ate the cord that went to the space heater.

I kept hearing the pet yelp in the middle of the night, but I thought she was just having a nightmare.

I closed our eyes plus went back to sleep, only to be awakened a few minutes later.

I went downstairs to see what was wrong with the animals. When I saw him, I didn’t know if I wanted to laugh at him or cry for him. She had small burn marks on her face, where she had been chewing on the electrical cord that affixed to the space heater. I was angry that she had destroyed the cord plus the space heating system would no longer work. The space heating system was less than a year old, plus now I needed to replace it. A part of me wanted to laugh at the pet. Her head was hanging, plus she had her paws over her eyes. I knew she didn’t mean to destroy anything. It was hard to look at the burns on her face, but she was the a single who chewed on the cord. I looked at the cord plus wondered why she hadn’t caught something on fire, which included himself. There were small burn marks on the carpet, which came from the sparking wire, but my pet was lucky she didn’t burn up himself or our home. When the Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C supplier HVAC duct cleaning crew arrived, they suddenly cleaned the HVAC duct. They told me I needed to call the Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C. With all the dirt they removed, it was possible the heating system may have hot plus been damaged. That was not something I wanted to hear.
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