Yikes

I came downstairs to check back in the guests from the post below, who decided to return and pay their tax anyway, when I saw that the whole kitchen was filled with smoke. E was sitting at the computer, oblivious.

My first thought was horror. I'd just filled the wood boiler and had a question about a couple of pieces of wood and thought that it must be smoking like crazy and was pouring smoke into our basement and all up into the guest rooms. I told Ethan to run down to the far basement and open the door. He came back and said everything looked okay.

It was then that I noticed that I'd turned on the back burner on the stove, instead of the front, like I'd intended. The back burner is almost never used and I must have spilled something down there. No crisis with the boiler after all.