Nice , and needed slow day. Spent most of it wrestling with my welder which insisted on kinking my wire feed. Pretty frustrating but I was able to finish welding up the new baffle for the wood-stove.. Good thing because we’re expecting cold weather this week, I showed some before pics yesterday,, but here’s the project.. pretty simple. 

here are some before shots.    Fire is rough on metal. this a 1/4″ mild stell angle iron.. 

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and here are the old baffles. Each 1/4″ think stell.. thats pretty amazing that the stove gets that hot !

 

the two baffles together. that;s a big hole !  kinda of pretty in a scary way 

 

ere’s the new bracket we cuth

and the new baffles ready to weld. these stiched together things just need to last the week. I’m buying some 1/2″ plate to replace them when I get back 

 

here’s are the baffles and angle iron replaced, wtih the rock wool blancket on top 

 

and here it is happily burning.. 

 

 

the house is cozy again.. 

ok. tiem for bed. more tomorrow. Nite all, nite sam

-me

Low key day.. my one project for the day was to try and fix our wood stove. One of the steel baffles burned through in the last few days  which is letting fire go to places fire shouldnt reach. I need to get it fixed before I leave Monday.. as we’re expecting soem 2 defggree (F) nights this coming week… and the wood stove is our primary heat.  Check out the condition I found these baffles in. 

 

unfortunately my normal steel place , Queen City.. is closed on the weekend. I had to resort to callign freinds and visiting hardware stores. .. My buddy Rebar cut me a replacement bracket

 

 

now I”m most of the way through scabbing soem small and overpriced 1/4″ plate steel together to remake the baffles.. 

 

around our freind Michale T came over to teach the second of his cool .. as yer nameless… classes.. we had lots of fun talking, meditating..and drawing puzzles.. 

 

then a nice potluck inside.. 

 

 

interesting fact .. in my travels today. 4 different people said to me that they were introverts.. add all of them said it in an outgoing way.. 

my mom claims to be a ‘failed extrovert”….     which is a funny thing ..

not sure what I am..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

TOnight a bunch of our freinds gathered at the house to remember our good friend Jonathon Puckett (Puckett to all of us). He left this earth two years ago today,. 

here’s puckett on our ugly yellow couch 

 

 

It was good all coming together ,..   everybody was doing well.  these are all Sam’s friends as well.. and they are all still very much in our lives. 

 

 

 

 

lots of babies in the mix now. 

 

 

 

Sabre made these awesome Puckett cupcakes. 

 

 

 

it was great thinking of puckett. and having some fun.

 

it was just what we all needed..

nite all, nite sam

-me

We had our board meeting for the Vermonts Own MIT (VoMIT)  clubtonight at the Farmhouse in Burlington. It’s nice to  know  that the upscale hipster hangout is called ‘The Farmhouse’.. since it’s the site of the Old McDonalds  .. (baddddubump).. 

 

Micelle our intrepid leader has been getting this board together religiously for the last 16 years..it’s a wonderful group of very smart and very quirkky people. Our meetingsare anythign but robert’s rules complaint .. but the french fries were SO good. 

 

so niceto have this constant thread in my life… 

 

 

if your’e an MIT alum and living in Vermont.. Please reach out.. we want meet you !

 

nite all. nite sam

-me