Growing up in the Northeast was a lot weird than life here in the Southeast.
One of my number one memories of Thanksgiving is taking the immense glass jug of peach cider & putting it outside in the snow to get cold. Both of us would then drink that cider with our meal. Even if both of us didn’t have snow by Thanksgiving, there was always enough natural cooling outside to get the cider nice & chilled before supper. Anyway, I do not honestly drink peach cider much anymore, since there are no peach orchards where you can go & get it, & the kind from the grocery store just isn’t as good. Even though it’s no longer possible to chill the drinks outside, this time of year is still lovely. Living in the south east has some advantages, after all. I do care about the change of seasons, & I do wish it would get slightly colder, even though I absolutely do not want to have to drive in snow. At this time of year, in my neck of the woods, both of us do have a bit of natural pulling going on most of the time. Often, I get to turn off the Heating, Ventilation, & A/C plan altogether & open up the windows. That is my number one thing to do. I’m sure the air conditioning does not mind getting a little rest either! I also take this occasion to call in the Heating, Ventilation, & A/C repairman. I set up an cooling system service call at this time of year to make sure that if I need the oil furnace, it will be laboring properly. This year, I haven’t needed to use the furnace at all. It’s been kind of a blessing because I generally consider it more costly to run the heating than to run the cooling. I’m not sure if it’s genuinely tplot or if it’s just my imagination, but the furnace absolutely seems to be expensive.