Portones y estufa

The workers surprised me the other day by asking where my wood-burning stove had gotten to.... it had been safety stored and covered in the garage. And there was a long story to that stove, since it had belonged to a good friend of mine in Colorado years ago. It was an older Orley insert and I bought it for a very fair price, but it languished in my Black Forest garage for many years since none of my house or barn installations could readily deal with the minimum spacing requirements for such a stove. So when it came time to design a house around a stove, the Puerto Bories place, Casa 7 Bis, was laid out to accommodate the old stove.

Well, the workers had, unbeknownst to me, moved the stove upstairs and started the preliminary work for the chimney installation. They removed the protective packaging from the glass windows, which made me a little nervous, but so far no damage is done. In the time that the stove had been stored (since November of 2007) it has had time to develop some surface rust. So I started to clean up the stove and do some touch-up with the high-temp stove paint I found up in Argentina.

Elsewhere at the site the portones, the garage doors, are now installed. And work on the chiflonera is concluding, though that structure is not turning out as nicely as I had hoped, at least for the external appearance.