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.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Goodbye Q in the morning

Well, the stereo is gone from our kitchen. Hub of the house. We do not watch television at all here so our radio entertains our ears while we are cooking and or doing regular household duties. It is safe in storage along with our CD's etc.
Amazing the space these things take up. Now I have more room for books.There is an upside to everything . Ken has officially pulled out the dishwasher. We will put a sign on it at the end of the road ...hopefully someone will take it . Regardless of what happens in the next year we have not used this machine and prefer hand washing . Neither of us can remember when we used it last and we might be correct in we used it last year the day of our wedding ..But now we have a lovely space for shelves,for large pots and such...which is wonderful.  We are getting excited for this to begin.

1 comment:

  1. Darn, if you were down the road from me I'd take your dishwasher! Be heaven sent during production week.
    v

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