When It Snows, I want A Fire

But, alas, that is not possible.

The weather outside looks like this:
And our chimney looks like this:



The first thing you notice is that there is a piece of blue tarpaulin taped to the house. It is covering a 1 foot x 1 foot hole that the chimney workers had to create in order to get the aluminum tubing, pictured as the silver tube coming out of our chimney. There was a stray brick preventing the tubing from going into the chimney properly and so an access hole was made in order to move side brick.

The workers are hoping to reuse some of the bricks from the top of the chimney to repair the hole, because the bricks were pretty much ruined when ripping open the access hole. We have wire-cut bricks, which means that the bricks have a pattern cut into them. One cannot replace the old brick with any new brick, namely because the new brick doesn't have the pattern cut into each individual piece. The thought is that at the top of the chimney, they will use newer bricks, since it is so far up there and no will notice the difference once the cap is on top.

The works should be done on Monday... but with the way that things have been going with the crew (the supervisor got pneumonia, for example), who knows. Fingers and toes crossed.