fires

As you well know from all the 'firewood' posts, I use a wood stove to heat this place...it's not my only heat, but I want it to be the major source. Heating oil is still $5 a gallon and precious. My wood stove was put in as somewhat of an after thought, relegated to living on the porch really. It keeps that porch really warm, but there's a small wall that blocks a lot of heat from the rest of the living area...
So I fixed it. I took a hammer to that wall and removed its heat blocking self! I don't really know exactly what's next...but the heat gets through instead of building up in the porch. One less wall I have to tile or cover with metal.

This on the other hand is my neighbors' fire... they bar-b-que on their porch so they don't have to go out in the rain to tend the fire. If you look closely, there's a can of lighter fluid on the hand rail. The fire is very kindly pointing at that can of flammable fluid. Seconds after I took this picture (if you follow the Yarn Harlot, I Kinneared my neighbors' porch) the guy came out and moved the whole rig about 6 inches to the left. I hope that place has a second entrance!