Welcome to A Victorian Year in Ontario

Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, the year is 1865, Her Majesty Queen Victoria has reigned since 1837 and we are in the midst of a prosperous era. The purpose of this blog is to record the daily round of chores, tasks, trials and triumphs of our household in rural Upper Canada (now known as Ontario). We have embarked on an experiment to live a year as close to the way it was done in 1865 as we possibly can. We will post our remarks and await your comments, suggestions and critiques. So join us as we travel back in time.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Evening Sky

Hi. I'm sitting here looking out the window at a splendid evening sky. Reds fading to oranges accented by dark blue cloud and backgrounded by light blue sky. A lovely end to a lovely day.

Earlier today I listed all the fruits and vegetables we have or will have and forgot one ... corn! Not a long row but corn nonetheless. Spent the day outside mostly, loading and unloading our trailer.

We use our car as a horse and the trailer as our wagon for now. We have made an offer on an old buggy, mostly for its cast iron bits. Perhaps we can copy the shapes of the wood and build our own buggy/wagon. Yet another thing to watch, do and record. Once we get the wagon/buggy built, we'll need to get horses. I would like to get a couple of Canadians. These are descendants of horses sent over from the Royal Stables of France in the 1600's. A sturdy, breed, not a large breed nor especially fast, but they are a quick horse and they also form the original breed stock of the more famous Morgan horse.

We will have to look into this further and we'll keep you posted.

Thanks, Ken.

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