If at first you don't succeed...

Jumping back in the saddle so to speak... I lit the fire again tonight. Properly this time. Although now I'm not sure if the vent is open, because the house smelled strongly of gas within 30 minutes, so we turned it off. Pretty sure that's not normal. I'll have to get my handy-man father to look at it before we light it again. So, although it was nice and warm & cozy it may be the last one we have for a while. It's not like we have many cold nights here on the gulf coast anyway...