It’s funny how we can end up doing things as adults that were dreams when we were kids.
I grew up in circumstances that weren’t all that good so I had plenty of dreams that had to wait to be fulfilled, and my mom was a single mother.
We were poor. The home we lived in didn’t have a modern central cooling system. Instead, there was a wood stove for heating and fans for cooling in the summer. I didn’t like the cooling system, until after I graduated! Even our dorm room didn’t have a central cooling system. There was a decent boiler in that dorm building which provided intense radiant heating all winter. There would be so much heating coming from the radiators that we’d have to crack a window, then no, our first cooling system was inside the home I had after school. And that was a heat pump that had seen better afternoons. Once I got cemented in our career and became a homeowner, I made sure that I had some good quality heating and air. But I also started making some other childhood dreams come true. It may sound unusual although I ended up building a treehouse. This is something I had regularly wanted but never had. There were these perfect oak trees on our property that would be the perfect base for a nice tree house. I care about this space and even had a ductless heat pump installed so I have a cooling system in our dream treehouse. Having a cooling system in the treehouse sounds silly, but it’s way better than a man cave to me.