As I am writing this post, we are experiencing the beginning of Hurricane Sally. Yesterday I did a good bit of washing because I needed to get a ......
About gDonna The photo is my son and myself. Now days you can get a photo made to look old like this one. This photo was taken when this was the new look.
Harry S Truman was president when I was born and world war II had ended. I grew up in a time when lunch was put in a brown paper bag and a sandwich was wrapped with wax paper. There was no such thing as pantyhose, we wore stockings that attached to the rubbery clippy things that attached to the girdle. Convenience stores were not common and when we took a trip we packed a picnic basket because many places did not have fast food. Highways had places to pull over and stop, some with picnic tables. Read more ....
September 4, 2020 Living Like the Past
Recently I have been trying to organize, it seems that it never stays done as we truly live in our homes. What I mean by that is we are some of the ......
August 28, 2020 Living Like the Past
Here we are, the last three days of August 2020. Here at our home we are a mixture of 2020 and the old days. August, September and No ......
August 14, 2020 Living Like the Past
Charles and I started a new project here at our house. We have been doing these studies for years now of living more like the past. We kne ......
August 5, 2020 Living Like the Past
Because we are in a worsening pandemic. Some of you have lost your job, some have lost loved ones and it may seem to you that no one cares. But ......
July 31, 2020 Living Like the Past
Charles is a wonderful man and I love him so very much. He will do whatever it takes to do what is right. He has a good spirit and prefers ......
July 22, 2020 Living Like the Past
A few of you have asked me and one almost pleaded for me to keep posting. I know some of you have felt my fatigue. The pandemic fatigue th ......
July 17, 2020 Living Like the Past
Lately I have been dragging a bit on posting. Understandable though...I am going to do a more simple post about things going on around our home. ......
July 3, 2020 Living Like the Past
The other day we had a storm with quite a bit of lightening. The week before our daughter called and said that their next door neighbors tree ha ......
June 24, 2020 Living Like the Past
It has been much longer than I planned to do another blog post but things have been very busy around here lately. Charles and I are doing okay b ......
June 9, 2020 Living Like the Past
I choose to remember the good times in life and the people that have stuck in my memory. There are sounds and smells, sometimes a feeling or some ......
May 27, 2020 Living Like the Past
Long ago they knew many of the things that we do not know today. We have so much to learn, and as I get older this is one thing I crave, to fi ......
May 25, 2020 Living Like the Past
To not feel overly anxious about how badly people are behaving during this very serious pandemic I must stay busy and listen to the nudge that must co ......
May 13, 2020 Living Like the Past
Living with purpose is much more rewarding than living for fun.I find contentment when my life is balanced. It has not felt or looked balanced lately ......
May 7, 2020 Living Like the Past
Now is the time.... People seem to have an attitude that they are owed something or want to blame all the time. We cannot blame the sun because ......
April 27, 2020 Living Like the Past
When Charles and I started living more like the past, it did not take long before we realized how important this was for our life.We started understan ......
April 24, 2020 Living Like the Past
If we have a plan.With what all is going on and the many hours I have been sewing masks I have had a lot of time to think about this post.I have been ......
April 14, 2020 Living Like the Past
We are all going through a very traumatic time being that we are having a very serious pandemic. At first many people went through denial ......
April 5, 2020 Living Like the Past
I normally try to reply to your emails but I have gotten behind. I have read all of my emails and I enjoy hearing from you and reading how you are doi ......
March 30, 2020 Living Like the Past
My blog has been around for many years now so I repost some pictures because they are helpful with a new post and because they are in much older ......
March 26, 2020 Living Like the Past
For right now, each day that goes by we should be doing all we can do to help protect ourselves and our family from getting the virus.I make sure to w ......
March 24, 2020 Living Like the Past
Our Generations before us were very resilient because they understood better than any of us today the hard times that may come at any time.They lived ......
March 17, 2020 Living Like the Past
So here we are... never thought of this one before.... The rapidly growing virus. So we shift gears and get ourselves out of the shock of i ......
March 10, 2020 Cooking from Scratch
In my last post that I just did, I mentioned that I would post a easy sandwich bread to make. Bread is not hard to make and only requires a few s ......
March 9, 2020 Living Like the Past
It was curiosity that we decided to study the past. To learn how our generations before us lived. The more we learned the more we wanted to know. ......
March 3, 2020 Living Like the Past
Above is Bernadette's past time, remove the cushions off the chairs in the house.Stay calm and Run, is that how you feel about now? I have ......
February 28, 2020 Living Like the Past
Here we are in a concerning time with all the flu virus, coronavirus, elections, stock market declinning. We are being told different things each day. ......
February 18, 2020 Living Like the Past
I skipped a week of posting to get some things done. I sewed a dress, then I made a new bobbin lace pillow to make lace on. I canned some ......
February 4, 2020 Living Like the Past
A long while back I wrote about having a feeling of homesick even when we are home. For me, I learned that was a mixture of grief and fond memor ......
January 24, 2020 Living Like the Past
I thought I would update on my One Room Proper cleaning that I started awhile back. I must say this has been the best discipline for me to ......