This resulted in us not getting up there as much in the winter
When dad was dying, he wanted my sister and I to be sure that we kept the cabin in the family. He wasn’t so much worried about anything else really which was sort of interesting. But he was adamant that we didn’t sell the place once he was gone. Honestly, I don’t know that either my sister or myself had any thoughts like that. Some of the best memories we had of dad was him whisking us out of the central air conditioning of home and up to the cabin. Sometimes it wasn’t even the residential HVAC of the home he’d yank us out of. There were a few times it was the commercial HVAC of school that dad would pick us up and take us for a long weekend at the cabin. So while that property is worth a ton of money, I know that I never had the first thought of selling it. Besides both my sister’s kids and mine love it just like we did up there on that property. And who wouldn’t with all that perfect nature, a lake and nobody around for miles. While we didn’t entertain the thought of selling the cabin, we did want to update it a bit. And a big one was having some other source of heating up there in the winter. The wood stove cranked out the heating. But you had to get the fire going first. And that could be tricky sometimes. This resulted in us not getting up there as much in the winter. So we had a series of ductless heat pumps installed to provide a supplemental HVAC heating source. Plus, having that HVAC cooling in the dead heat of summer isn’t too bad either.