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

Only a week to go

I am anticipating the end of next week. Many things to do this week to prepare.Will need to get in small wood  for the wood stove.Makes lighting easier and brings the heat up faster. Will have to remove all of the newspaper I have been using to light the stove and gather leaves and small grass instead.(funny how many small things that will have to be changed). I light the wood stove daily but do not think about lighting it accurately to the period we are studying .Matches are well within this period...thank heavens. Although we do have a friend that is an expert at lighting with a flint and steel.I am going to ask him to teach me this weekend exactly how that is done. I had learned as a child how to start a fire by rubbing 2 sticks together ...so if need be.
Although I have heard this method is much faster ,especially if one of the sticks is a wooden match.

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