My sister came into the house the other day, unwrapping her scarf from her neck and acting like it was already winter. She had always been a bit of an oddity, but the winter scarf and the pretending it was cold outside was enough. She told me she had just seen the winter forecast, and it was going to be a doozy. They were predicting record breaking snowfall and windy conditions. She said it gave her a shiver just listening to the weather forecast. I wasn’t anywhere near ready for winter, and more especially for that kind of forecast. But then, the weather forecaster had been wrong more often than they had been right. Last year was one of the warmest winters on record and they had predicted it would be normal to below normal. I would not go off on a tangent like my sister was. Then again, if they were right about the upcoming winter, I should at least make sure my furnace was ready for that kind of weather. I didn’t want to go through a windy, snowy winter with having a good furnace to keep me warm. When I called the HVAC company to have my furnace serviced, they put me on a waiting list. The man on the phone said that many people must have seen the winter forecast. They had so many calls for furnace service that they were going to be working overtime for the next month. I thanked the HVAC tech and told him I would be one of the patient customers. Now, I just had to hope that winter wouldn’t start before the HVAC company could do the servicing.