Flue

I learned a valuable lesson yesterday. I have to open the flue in order for the smoke to go up the chimney instead of all over my apartment! Like I said yesterday, I have never used a fireplace before so I had no idea what I was doing. If I had opened the flue, I would have been fine. I'm extremely lucky that I didn't burn the place down. My coat smelled so bad that when the kids walked into the room today they wondered what the smell was. I didn't answer them. I spent this afternoon after work fabreezing everything. Lesson learned!