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So I finally got the inner firebricks repaired in my fireplace after living here for 2 years, and decided to start a fire. I got a couple of those firelog things from Menards that are basically compressed sawdust. I lit the corners of the bag and it started up pretty much by itself from there on out. It was burning good for about 2 hours...lice even burn, no pops or snaps. No sparks jumping out of the fireplace. I'm thinking...good, this is nice.
After about 2 hours of burning I started to smell a little smoke. I checked the fire and it was still burning just fine...there was a tiny bit more smoke coming off of the log, because I think it was getting to the end of it's life. I figured 2.5 to 3 hours was pretty decent for a $2 log to use on occasion. Then I remembered that I am babysitting m g/f's parent's two parrots. I also recall that miners used to use small birds in cages to tell if there had been any methane or CO gas in the mine, because birds are very suceptible to fumes and gas of any kind. The last thing I wanted to do was kill their birds since they just spent Christmas out of state to go to a funeral.
I grabbed my spray bottle that I fill with water to do my hair and sprayed it on the log to put the fire out. Well, that was stupid. Anyone who's ever poured a bucket of water on a campfire knows that yes, it puts the fire out, but it causes smoke to POUR out of the pit. So now I pretty much have a smoke grenade emptying into my fireplace. Most of it was going up the chimney, but the room wa starting to get a little hazy. So now I'm thinking "oh shit oh shit oh shit I just made the problem fifty times worse."
So I ran out to my garage, snatched my leather gloves, grabbed the whole metal rack out of the fireplace and threw the whole frickin think out in a snowbank.
Now I have my doors all open with a box fan blowing 19 degree air into my once warm house, and I smell like a goddamn bonfire.
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After about 2 hours of burning I started to smell a little smoke. I checked the fire and it was still burning just fine...there was a tiny bit more smoke coming off of the log, because I think it was getting to the end of it's life. I figured 2.5 to 3 hours was pretty decent for a $2 log to use on occasion. Then I remembered that I am babysitting m g/f's parent's two parrots. I also recall that miners used to use small birds in cages to tell if there had been any methane or CO gas in the mine, because birds are very suceptible to fumes and gas of any kind. The last thing I wanted to do was kill their birds since they just spent Christmas out of state to go to a funeral.
I grabbed my spray bottle that I fill with water to do my hair and sprayed it on the log to put the fire out. Well, that was stupid. Anyone who's ever poured a bucket of water on a campfire knows that yes, it puts the fire out, but it causes smoke to POUR out of the pit. So now I pretty much have a smoke grenade emptying into my fireplace. Most of it was going up the chimney, but the room wa starting to get a little hazy. So now I'm thinking "oh shit oh shit oh shit I just made the problem fifty times worse."
So I ran out to my garage, snatched my leather gloves, grabbed the whole metal rack out of the fireplace and threw the whole frickin think out in a snowbank.
Now I have my doors all open with a box fan blowing 19 degree air into my once warm house, and I smell like a goddamn bonfire.
How was your day?
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