There were a large number of changes to get used to when our family.moved down south, I was only eighteen years old at the time and I had been living in the cold north for the entirety of our short life.
- We had mild summer seasons and comfortable Springtime & Autumn seasons, but our Winters were extreme.
Massive amounts of snow week after week, always having to stay bundled up, and more than a handful of cases of extreme cold fronts to take into account. In this style of living, we somehow managed to go through most of the year without ever needing a cooling system. We lived in a high elevation with undoubtedly little wind breakage from trees in my front yard. This meant that with all of the windows open throughout our house, we could get a comfortable breeze no matter what the weather outside was on any given day. Anyways, once the first snow falls rolled into town, we had no choice but to start using indoor heat to whatever extent that the people I was with and I could. Natural gas wasn’t cheap & occasionally it was hard to get deliveries if the roads were iced over or there was too much snow to go anywhere. This meant that the people I was with and I got by with only cutting and putting wood on the flames. There was a sense of calm & ambience to having a roaring fire in the residing room to cozy up to. Now that I live in a comfortable environment without drastic Winters, I’m finding it yard to consider burning wood to heat our home. If it’s not a necessity, I worry that needlessly combusting wood & filling the atmosphere with more smoke is a less modern version of heating your lake lake house opposed to electric or gas radiant heat. On the other side of things, it’s at least better to utilize wood from random fallen trees instead of cutting down live a singles to source out your timber. In our case, the people I was with and I had a large piece of land with an abundance of old, decaying trees to find every single year.