Cleaning cleaning cleaning!!!

Seems to me that from the beginning of this journey my time cleaning has ever increased. The house seems increasingly dirty and dusty.I am blaming most of this on the increased use of the wood cook stove and now the wood furnace. But wow oh wow I never seem to get caught up. I would imagine that this was a constant problem during the time period we are emulating. It explains the need for help for sure. Now in all fairness I work full time and travel to Guelph most often 2 days a week where I stay over, because  I am launching my consulting business. I also have a Rotary  meeting on wednesday evenings so I am not home all of the time. But clearly there does not seem to be enough daylight hours in the day. Which is another interesting part of this . Most of the work needs to be done during daylight hours as candle light is not enough to really get at the fine work.With the winter coming and daylight decreasing I am finding my days are cut shorter. Which cuts my good working time down a bit. I am also finding that I am tired earlier and we head for bed alot earlier than we used to . I knew there would be differences between the summer and the winter but the differences are indeed quite noticable.
Am I complaining...not really. Just have noticed that my work seems to have increased or the dirt has. I guess I am getting a better understanding of what life was truely like in 1865. Without help ....
Would I trade the lovley heat of the wood furnace or the taste of our food cooked on the wood stove ...no way.
Nor would I trade the quietness of our home or the time we spend just enjoying each other
M

Ken here, stripped the parlour walls of wall paper. It was the easiest removal of wallpaper I've experienced. All down in 30 minutes, clean-up and patching took about 1 & 1/2 hours. A little sanding tomorrow and the walls will be ready to paper again. We're looking for a Victorian style paper if we can get it. Should spruce up the parlour quite nicely I should think.

Margaret mentioned there seems to be more cleaning and less light and time to do it all. The same can be said of the furnace and the wood stove. I seem to be spending a great deals of time moving wood about. Either it's going into the furnace or the stove, I'm pilin it up outside or I'm throwing it down the outside stairs and then piling it in the furnace room. It keeps me warm several times over and also makes my muscles sore as well. There's always something to be done, if'n you don't to it today, it'll cheerfully wait for you to do tomorrow. It keeps me off the streets and out of mischief I guess.

That's all from me, take care and have a good week.

K