Zero crafting today, sadly. The weather forecast is for plummeting temperatures to the point that in a few days I'll be facing highs of 10C (50F) and lows at night of a mere 3C (somewhere around 35F I think). Therefore, my time today was spent getting all the removable parts out of the fire and scrubbing them with wire brushes (I had help with that part) and scraping as much of the remaining gunk off the inside of the fire as possible, then putting it all back together. Despite wearing two pairs of rubber gloves, my hands still got filthy. I scrubbed my nails and fingers, several times, but they're still not completely clean and I don't want to muck up the cross stitch.
Tomorrow rain is forecast, so I'll leave doing anything else with the fire until the weekend. Always a bad idea to try lighting it when there's a heavy overcast. The smoke settles downwards. I'll do a couple of test burns before lighting it properly, to dry out the chimney and make sure it's drawing properly, then light it either Sunday or Monday. Also ordered logs for delivery Wednesday.
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Tomorrow rain is forecast, so I'll leave doing anything else with the fire until the weekend. Always a bad idea to try lighting it when there's a heavy overcast. The smoke settles downwards. I'll do a couple of test burns before lighting it properly, to dry out the chimney and make sure it's drawing properly, then light it either Sunday or Monday. Also ordered logs for delivery Wednesday.