Firestarter

Now that the weather is getting colder, much colder (especially compared to what Todd is used to), we thought we were all prepared for it......and then the furnace went out. Yay. We have an awesome neighbor who came over and helped Todd work on it, but we still have the task of finding a new motor and putting it back in.. There is a wood stove in the basement, however, long story, but we can't use it. I'm sure it works great, but we can't use it. LUCKILY there is a fireplace in the living room upstairs that Todd decided to fire up yesterday. I knew Todd liked building fires...he was always building a fire in the woodstove at my old house (when he was there), but now that there's a definite need to use the fireplace, he gets pretty excited about building fires. Gavin's also become my little pyro...he thinks there should always be a fire in the fireplace from now on.

Todd and Gavin getting ready to build the fire.


Gavin got to crunch up the paper..


Adding the crunched up paper to the logs...note the tongue sticking out....it must take concentration! That would be a trait from MY side of the family :-)


The finished product....