The Sensible Refuge - The HomeWe have been canning vegetables, fruits, meats and getting the pantry re stocked. Fall is coming. I could say this again ......
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 13, 2019 Living Like the Past
This is not a post on Sarah's diary but a discussion of how Sarah's diary is affecting many of us that are reading the diary posts. We find that ......
August 6, 2019 Living Like the Past
I hope I can type out the right words in this post that are coming from my heart. I feel that when I was a child I had one foot in the old ......
August 2, 2019 Living Like the Past
I apologize about being so slow getting the diary posts out. I am running on slow lately but still ticking along. I want to mention that I have ......
July 26, 2019 Living Like the Past
Sometimes life changes unexpectedly. It can be most anything. A job loss, a fractured ankle, a death of a loved one, a robbery, storm damage. Sometime ......
July 15, 2019 Living Like the Past
To me life had become just filler food. Before we changed to living a more simple old fashioned life I felt that I was going through life o ......
July 8, 2019 Living Like the Past
We are continuing Sarah's diary. You can go back to read the previous months if you have missed them. Friday, April 1, 1932Cold and cloudy the ea ......
July 4, 2019 Living Like the Past
This is the place I have spent a lot of time lately. If the pillows are at the head of the bed I can look into the kitchen. If they are at ......
June 18, 2019 Living Like the Past
We are continuing with the diary of Sarah. If you have not read January or February they are linked here. Part 1 https://gdonna. ......
June 12, 2019 Living Like the Past
Just a very short post to let you know I am not posting this week to take a needed rest. The heat really does me in this time of year so I am tr ......
June 6, 2019 Living Like the Past
There have been many questions asked since starting the posting of the diaries. Edith's and Sarah's diaries especially.I too have questions and it mak ......
June 6, 2019 Living Like the Past
The food forest has been doing good until the drought started getting worse. We have watered every day and this is difficult for us because we t ......
May 30, 2019 Living Like the Past
I am continuing the diary of Sarah. This is the most special diary that I have. A true treasure. It takes me quite a bit of time to type so it is comi ......
May 29, 2019 Living Like the Past
Can we really go back to a better place, a better time? We cannot go back in time but we can change our life to resemble the past. We do not h ......
May 26, 2019 Living Like the Past
I am back to posting on Albert and Gladys, the 1932 journal of their expenditures during this year of the great depression. If you have not read their ......
May 22, 2019 Living Like the Past
We have been in the 90 degree temperatures and this is only May. Also it is very dry here which is requiring us to hand water our vegetables.We ......
May 15, 2019 Living Like the Past
I realize that I am not on the exact track of posting as I am suppose to be as far as this study is going but this is a research project and as I disc ......
May 7, 2019 Living Like the Past
I took a chance and got a very early start with planting this year. There was a lot of covering and uncovering but worth it because I just do no ......
May 7, 2019 Living Like the Past
Last posting on Edith's diary, we left off at the end of April. This is the link to the first posting if you need a refresher or have not read a ......
May 3, 2019 Living Like the Past
Here we are at part three of Leona's Diary. I have done two posts before this one, the first is January, February and March. The second post is April, ......
May 1, 2019 Living Like the Past
If we are tired of the way things are, we can find a better way, a more purposeful life. I have found what I was looking for by living like the past ......
May 1, 2019 Living Like the Past
Part two, if you did not read Jan, Feb and March of Leona's diary, go back here to read that first. https://gdonna.com/living-like-the-past/keeping-ho ......
April 30, 2019 Living Like the Past
This above is the real home of Leona, this is what it looks like now but imagine what it looked like in 1937.I am going to be late with the first of t ......
April 24, 2019 Living Like the Past
The Walking Iris is blooming. Tomorrow this bloom should be fully open. I love to watch the different stages of the flowers.It has been mostly dry rec ......
April 12, 2019 Living Like the Past
I reckon around about tomorrow the old cast iron pipe might be fixed.There has been an unseen problem under these drains. Seem like the old drain pipe ......
April 10, 2019 Living Like the Past
There is much to do most all year around here at our small place but spring is especially busy. Since our 2019 history project is to study the years 1 ......
April 3, 2019 Living Like the Past
Spring is such a beautiful time. We are enjoying our yard and frequent visitors and residents. After being indoors during winter we just want to hang ......
March 31, 2019 Living Like the Past
We continue the diary of Phoebe, April 1939Phoebe and William live in a three story adjoining home with the Griffiths living next door. Their sto ......
March 30, 2019 Living Like the Past
We now continue the diary of Theodore and Nellie. Theodore is the writer of this dairy and we started in January and have read January, February ......
March 30, 2019 Living Like the Past
We continue the Journal of Albert and Gladys, the year 1932. We have been following the monthly expenses and budget for this young couple with a ......