{"id":5218,"date":"2016-02-04T18:52:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2016-02-04T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T23:52:21","slug":"the-sun-was-out-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2016\/02\/04\/the-sun-was-out-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun was out today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we decided it was time to work on our living room wood stove. The sun beats in the big south-facing windows, warming up the room (and us!) even on cold days so it was a good time to get this job done.<\/p>\n<p>The old fiberglass gasket on the wood stove was getting worn and had recently ripped in a section, rendering the stove unsafe and inefficient as there was a gap between the door and the stove. This morning we drove to town and picked up a bag of new gasket rope among other needed homestead stuff. When we got home Will set to work fixing the gasket. He pulled the old one off with the aid of a big flat-tipped screwdriver and his pocket knife. Then he scrubbed the whole channel well with a steel brush. Next came the black gooey gasket cement and finally, the new gasket rope was pushed tightly into the slot. Will cut it to fit and the job was done, except for letting it cure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cleaning_0036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cleaning_0036.jpg\" alt=\"Cleaning_0036\" width=\"446\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cleaning_0036.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cleaning_0036-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cleaning_0036-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_1_0037.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_1_0037.jpg\" alt=\"Gasket_1_0037\" width=\"446\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_1_0037.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_1_0037-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_1_0037-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_0038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_0038.jpg\" alt=\"Gasket_0038\" width=\"446\" height=\"325\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_0038.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_0038-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Gasket_0038-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we cleaned out the stove and wiped the front door glass clean with a damp rag. Now it&#8217;s ready to fire up, all safe, efficient, and beautiful. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we decided it was time to work on our living room wood stove. The sun beats in the big south-facing windows, warming up the room (and us!) even on cold days so it was a good time to get this job done. The old fiberglass gasket on the wood stove was getting worn and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}