Morning on the water in Deer Harbor. The smoke from wildfires on California has drifted up to Orcas Island.
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Starting then, the idea of eventually building a new house on the island started to dominate our thoughts. What would we build? What could we build?
Sometime in the middle of the house project, I learned a lesson about chimneys that has fascinated me ever since. We were talking about the metal tubes, or “flues” that would eventually stick out of our roof and vent our two wood-burning fireplaces. According to the fireplace company, the size of the fireplaces meant the flues needed to be eighteen feet high to work. This explains why.
There is an unwritten rule about home building projects on Orcas Island: well-behaved dogs are welcome. One any given day there is at least one dog one site and we’ve grown to love them all.
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