[Magdalen] how I hate this weather

[Scott Knitter]

That's the thing, though: it's a real fireplace with a chimney, but the
chimney is stopped up (with insulation, I think). The owners' manual to the
gas fire gizmo says it should be OK with any house's natural air leakage,
and that made me feel super-negative about ever turning the thing on. :)
We'll leave it unused and really clean for the next tenants if we ever move
out of here (I'd move for the sole purpose of gaining an in-unit clothes
washer and dryer...with the wonders of the internet, living in a far suburb
wouldn't be such a bad thing, I'm thinking).

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 3:32 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> My understanding is that, if a gas log fireplace is installed on a “real”
> fireplace, which means it’s vented to the outside, you don’t have to worry
> about carbon monoxide.
>
> > On Nov 20, 2018, at 10:00 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Our apartment has a real fireplace fitted with real-looking ceramic
> "coals"
> > and "logs" but we've never felt OK about running it, both for the effect
> on
> > the gas bill and for any carbon monoxide or other gas mishaps that could
> > conceivably happen. We do have some lovely decorative candle holders
> > instead, to provide at least some of the glow of a fireplace. A modern
> > space heater fills in the gap for the coldest evenings and to satisfy our
> > "toasty cat," Hermes.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 8:05 AM Marion Thompson <
> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> It is just around freezing here and the very fine snow is coating
> branches
> >> like icing sugar.  Very pretty, but it is evening all morning.
> >>
> >> My electric fire with visuals that is set in a console located under my
> >> living room window no longer works.  ☹  I now have a small heater
> sitting
> >> next to it.  It does its quiet work to take the chill off the
> basement-less
> >> floor, but it just isn’t the same as looking at a fire, real or not.
> >>
> >> This, too, shall pass.
> >>
> >> Marion, a pilgrim
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> >>
> >> From: ME Michaud
> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 8:41 AM
> >> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> >> Subject: [Magdalen] how I hate this weather
> >>
> >> My least favorite time of the year.
> >> All my joints hurt.
> >> I wish I had a fireplace.
> >> -M
> >>
> >> ****************************
> >> It was evening all afternoon.
> >> It had snowed
> >> and it was going to snow.
> >> The blackbird sat
> >> in the cedar limbs.
> >> -Wallace Stevens
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA