and the house has yet again...not burned down....

ok, so people who have had house fires tend to skittish about all flames......and thus we are just getting around to cranking up our woodstove....my spouse got up on the roof yesterday to check out the state of the chimney......looking for signs of creosote buildup.....and then vacumned out the stove itself....and then got a really hot fire going....supposedly, really hot fires leave less creosote than slow dwindling ones........and so i went to bed partially paralyzed by the notion that we might not hear the smoke alarm(s)....or wake up to smell the smoke in time......of which there was none......the house was really snug with that shot of extra heat before bed.....but i am not sure that i cannot handle the anxiety that comes with the warmth......