One thing I’ve learned thus far in this life is that plans are nice but life has a way of happening anyway.
This is what happened recently for my wife and I. Prior to retirement, we put a lot of effort into planning the next chapter of our life. We were eager to get rid of the need of HVAC heating and move to a place where the focus of HVAC was on cooling. The older we’d become, the more we just didn’t want to deal with winter in the high cost of HVAC heating. Moving south was what we had our sights set on. But nearly a year before I was ready to walk out of the commercial HVAC of the offices for the last time, it all went to pieces. What change was we became grandparents. Suddenly moving to all that air conditioning just didn’t mean as much as it once did. That’ll happen when you look in the eyes of your first grandchild. At first, we thought we could still move and just visit the grandkids. But once we started being active grandparents, the idea of moving to all that air conditioning just didn’t make sense. So we upgraded the HVAC equipment along with the kitchen and got a great price for our house. We made enough money that we could build a much smaller home but still it was everything we wanted. To that end, we now have geothermal heat pump and we love it. Not only is it super sustainable but it provides maybe the best HVAC heating I’ve ever experienced. The heating comes from radiant floor heating and I can’t believe how warm and cozy that sort of radiant heating makes our home.