Author: Chris

I have to say that I’m really surprised by where we landed for our retirement. What makes it all the more surprising is the fact that it’s not at all where my wife and I planned to be. The plan was to move south to all the air conditioning and leave any semblance of winter […]

I love going outside first thing in the morning. This is something that I do no matter the season. And sometimes, this is the only sustained fresh air I get. When you live in this region, it’s wise to get outside early before it gets hot. Or at least that’s the case for six months […]

My wife finally admitted that this was the best Christmas we’d ever had. I knew this but for sure, I wasn’t going to say anything. I was the main reason why this holiday season was so different. That’s because I told my wife and her parents that they were welcome inside the central air conditioning […]

We weren’t two weeks into being cooped up inside the central air conditioning of our home before I knew that I needed my own space. For one, I really didn’t like having to share the air conditioning inside the small home office with my wife. Much of my work requires a lot concentration and focus. […]

Necessity may indeed be the mother of invention. I think that is one of those basic truths in this life. But necessity can also end up showing you a whole new perspective just when you didn’t expect it. That’s exactly what happened for my wife and during a recent HVAC crisis. This wasn’t something like […]

For sure, the last twenty years have been all about my family. And honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way. My wife and I got married straight out of college and lived in an apartment with really poor residential HVAC. But that certainly wasn’t the worst thing about that apartment. It was in a […]

After I found the equipment I needed at a drastically reduced price because it was used, I called the HVAC company Well, all good things must come to an end. This was something that my dad would always tell me when it was time for me to go to bed. And truer words have never […]

I’m really not much into making New Year’s resolutions. This is a habit that I got over after it was obvious that I couldn’t keep any of them. For sure, it might have been better to go with easing up on the air conditioning instead of trying to fit into jeans I had in highschool. […]

I imagined that my house was just super clean. And it should be given the attention that my husband I give to taking care of our home. It’s just the two of us and two cats inside the central air conditioning of home. We love those cats so much but we are always cleaning as […]

I live so far out in the woods that I don’t even hook up to the electrical grid. And I don’t guess that will ever change while in my life time. But honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way. In fact, I set my life up to live self sustainably from the start. Once […]