First Wood Fire of Season

 

It's been a beautiful Fall this year. This is the view from the driveway of our Clay St Watertown apartment house. It is looking South at Keyes Ave

We lit a fire in our wood stove today, the first of the season. Usually we start using it much earlier than this. The weather has been very mild and warm this Autumn season so we have been using our oil furnace. This morning nephew Tim, the realtor,  came by and talked to us about the ins and outs of selling our Clay St property. In afternoon I raked leaves while the Better Half went to a dental appointment. While raking leaves neighbor kid across the street came over and was selling tickets for a Chicken Bar B Que dinner, $15.00 apiece. It's a fund raiser event for the Lyme Central School class of 2025. I bought four tickets.

It was a beautiful day today, high only reached 50 degrees but it was wonderful for October in the North Country.

Lit first fire of the season today in our Regency model FM2400 wood stove.

Tickets for Chicken BBQ Fundraiser for the Lyme Class of 2025.
My neighbor's son was selling them. I bought four.

Chimney and furnace repair

About a week or so ago I finally got my wood stove chimney repaired and the oil furnace repaired. That's a good thing because this Winter keeps marching on cold as ever. On Tuesday  the temperature was minus 26 degrees and reached a high for the day of minus 6.  Yesterday it was minus 16 and we had a high of minus 2.

Me with a 3 foot section of Selkirk stainless steel, all fuel chimney. This piece was damaged from heavy ice. 

This is me repairing the wood stove chimney. Turns out I only needed to replace one damaged section of the chimney as well as the roof flashing. 

While I was on the ladder repairing my chimney a guy from Bartlett's Plumbing & Heating, Adams, NY, was replacing the blower motor in the oil furnace in our basement. Heat wise, we are back in business dealing with Old Man Winter.