Well, we had our first one a couple weeks ago and all was well.... kinda...

...the next day we kept smellin' somethin burnin' and then the night after that fire we say smoke in the house, called the fire department which sent about 15 people up here and after checking the climney, which I had just cleaned, determined with an infa-red device that there was smolderin' behind the fire box...

So yesterday, I spent the afternoon cleaning the heck outta the firebox and hopefully found the the culprit: a small hole in the metal fire box that allowed enough spark to get back there and ignite the creosote that I obviously had brushed behind the box during the cleaning and with no "clean out" door cleaned itself out by burnin'...

No fun but hopefully I have it fixed now??? I'll test it the next time it looks as if it will be warm enough to leave the windows and oors open if I still have a problem...

Sorry, now back to those romantic stories whwere the fire does what it is told and nuthin' else...

Bobert