What is that under my bed besides dust? It is a Chamber pot. This is what people used in the past when they had to get up in the middle of ......
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 ....
August 17, 2017 Living Like the Past
This morning I felt I should give our home a big hug. I am trying to concentrate on our home despite growing concerns about what is going on i ......
August 14, 2017 Living Like the Past
My last post stirred some feelings and desires of living a simple life including doing many things the old way.Some people told me that they want to l ......
August 8, 2017 Living Like the Past
It was a hot summer day and Sarah had been busy planting trees on the south side of the house. She knew it was time to stop her work and because the s ......
August 4, 2017 Living Like the Past
After I posted the last post I had some very positive emails and also some questions. The last post was about us going paperless. There we ......
August 1, 2017 Living Like the Past
Seems like I have been away a good while. I had to give my back some extra time to heal and sitting at the computer was not comfortable. A ......
July 26, 2017 Gardening and Composting
Recently I became concerned about our Wooly Lamb's Ear. After doing some research I found out that very hot humid weather can affect this plant. ......
July 20, 2017 Old Fashioned Organizing
We all go through times when we get off track and this has been that bump in the road for me. Charles and I have had many changes recently, noth ......
July 12, 2017 Living Like the Past
When everything seems off balance, eat Strawberries.I have this magical place in my mind that is calming and vintage. I am doing my best to make ......
July 12, 2017 Pets
With a grieving heart I must say that our little Bootsy (lovebird) has passed away.She brought us much joy and much chatter. The house is more q ......
July 6, 2017 Living Like the Past
As Charles and I study and attempt to move further back in time to live more Like people lived in the past we find that we need to improve. We ......
July 2, 2017 Living Like the Past
Have you ever given much thought about where your food, electricity and water come from?There were people trying to invent electricity in the mid 1800 ......
June 29, 2017 Living Like the Past
Living more like the past takes time and we rid, replace, move things around and we slowly work it out. This wash bowl will be moved to a more a ......
June 25, 2017 Living Like the Past
Our Vintage Life is getting more interesting each day. We have no problems sleeping is the only way I can describe our life.Our diet has changed ......
June 20, 2017 Living Like the Past
This past week I did some canning. I preserve food many ways, dehydrating, water bath canning, pressure canning, freezing (which I am trying to ......
June 16, 2017 Cooking from Scratch
Our living more like the past brings me to spending more time in the kitchen. We all have to eat but today many people eat food that has b ......
June 12, 2017 Living Like the Past
Living like the past in today's world has some advantages. In the past some of the chores were heavy and we have the ability to use things from ......
June 6, 2017 Living Like the Past
A scrap pot I made from a thrift store find. It was an old fondue pot and a single lid from something else.As Charles and I keep walking our pat ......
June 3, 2017 Living Like the Past
Onion Bulb in Bloom...Our life got a bit confusing the last few weeks but we are getting somewhat in a better routine.Our move to a more Vintarian li ......
May 27, 2017 Living Like the Past
Some of you that visit my blog regularly know that my husband and I live an old fashioned vintage life. Those new to my blog, we enjoy doing his ......
May 25, 2017 Cooking from Scratch
I have had several requests for my biscuit recipe since my last post showing us cooking biscuits over the camp fire. I posted the recipe two yea ......
May 20, 2017 Living Like the Past
Wow, May has been a whirlwind here in our home. We have been so busy with normal things such as gardening and housekeeping but adding in finding ......
May 17, 2017 Living Like the Past
As some of you know from my last article Charles and I are trying to live with minimal electric and water. We do not have city gas, we are an all elec ......
May 9, 2017 Living Like the Past
This photo is of me in the 1960's when my husband and I were living in Dill city (not Dell City) Oklahoma. Dill city is close to Burns flat wher ......
May 7, 2017 Gardening and Composting
We will start out little walk here at the side of our driveway. This is the berry Garden filled with blueberry and raspberry bushes. A sma ......
May 5, 2017 Living Like the Past
We had a few sweet potatoes left over from the potatoes we grew last year so I put a few in water to grow some slips.You would think with all these ro ......
May 3, 2017 Cooking from Scratch
I did a bit of a study with some of the foods that I dehydrate to see what works best here in our kitchen.I boiled the potatoes whole until I could pi ......
April 30, 2017 Living Like the Past
For the end of our fourth month living like 1942 I want to share with you a very special knitting pattern and discuss what we have been doing this mon ......
April 29, 2017 Living Like the Past
The handkerchief case...This is part two of Vintage accessories. My mother had the most beautiful accessories. When I was a child I loved ......
April 29, 2017 Living Like the Past
I have had a request for further information for the napkin cover and I will include the knives and forks cover as well.If you would like to make one ......