Chimney cleaning time!

We get a special Summer rate if we have Stan come and clean our chimney in the offseason, so we did.  And not only that, he (or rather, his young apprentice) put new glass in our stove and replaced a cap on a vent in the roof that got knocked off by a falling branch some time last year.

 Here's Stan, who is in his 60s but says for the first ten years of his career he would do this in a top hat and tails, as a kind of signature.  He seemed serious.

And here's his younger apprentice doing the heavy lifting.