I opened my eyes immediately when the heat pump came on.
It was like instant recognition of a sound that means air conditioning.
It’s just now flipped the page to March down here in the south. And I was taking advantage of the quiet inside the central air conditioning of my house with a quick nap. I think it might have been around 3pm that day when the air conditioning kicked on for the first time this Spring. And the HVAC cabinet part of the heat pump is right outside the bedroom window. When the heat pump kicked on to start the cooling season, I snapped awake as though it was the shot of the starter’s pistola. It’s that time now. There is no denying it any longer, the winter is over for us. I heard that our neighbors to the north were having yet another chance to crank the gas furnace this weekend. Snow in the forecast for those poor souls. But here, we’re done and it sort of breaks my heart because this is the best time of the year when it comes to temperature. I love the fact that my residential HVAC just sits calmly nearly all winter as though it was the heating and cooling buddha. That heat pump has plenty of uninterrupted meditations through the winter because we just don’t get much demand for heating. And that is pure bliss for me. I love where I live and for 8 months of the year, it is glorious. The Spring will be lovely and I love these new, lime green leaves I see out my window. But this time of year also welcomes in air conditioning season. So I need to pick up the phone and call my HVAC professionals to get that air conditioning tune up, because we’ll need it.