Tuning Up
Climate change is marked by its erratic behavior. I can relate. Nevertheless, one of my favorite things in the whole wide world is the slow transition of summer to winter. Autumn includes that honeymoon time between air conditioning and furnace when you have perhaps a month of reasonable utility bills. After that hot summer we had around here, this weekend showed why we call it “fall.” I awoke yesterday morning only to feel the indoor temperature slipping into winter range. (Seriously. The furnace isn’t on yet.) It was 41 degrees outside, a full five degrees lower than projected. There’s a ...