We’re right at the tail end of the summer.
I didn’t guess how long it would take this year because it kept staying warm well into early September.
My father cares about it because he gets a month of deer hunting season where the weather is perfect and he doesn’t freeze while sitting in his tree stand. Unlike our father, I don’t hunt and have no method to ever start. Still, I’ll make good use of the pleasant weather as I ready myself for the eventual Wintertide onslaught. I need to clean out our rain gutters and clear all the debris off our roof. I’d much rather do this in 60 degree weather opposed to 30. When I finish those chores, I need to divert our attention to something of even greater importance. Like anyone else in our weather conditions, I use indoor heating while in the frigid Wintertide season. My gas furnace is our life line when it gets below zero degrees outside. Without a toiling gas furnace, I could freeze to death. Every year I get our gas furnace and the rest of our Heating and A/C plan diagnosed by a reputable professional. I want to get any necessary repairs finished before the temperature drops low enough where I need to use the heater. Once the inspections, repairs, and tuneups are made, I can safely guess that our gas furnace is ready to go for the long Wintertide season. I have friends that wait as long as possible, with some trying to get through the Wintertide season without any gas furnace inspections at all. The last thing you want to do is set yourself up for a situation where you need a abrupt gas furnace maintenance while in a frigid February blizzard.