I love screen doors because they normally led to those I loved. The squeak or creaky noise they made. Many times once you opened and walke ......
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 ....
October 16, 2017 Living Like the Past
I love this time of year when the Heirloom Chrysanthemums bloom. This is a very old variety that have somehow managed to not die off. They ......
October 11, 2017 Living Like the Past
They all understood it, so why don't we.Especially them, they understood it.Papa certainly had it. I had enough exposure to it that I know ......
October 8, 2017 Living Like the Past
We are doing fine here after hurricane Nate. The feeder bands were kind to us only bringing breezy winds and rain. No damage here, cannot ......
October 7, 2017 Living Like the Past
Here we are first week of October has ended. This is the time of year our lemongrass is ready to harvest. I will be cutting, peeling and f ......
October 2, 2017 Living Like the Past
The roses will be gone soon since it is fall now so I am sharing a beautiful rose in full bloom from our yard. This post is about lessons we have lear ......
September 27, 2017 Living Like the Past
I like to be comfortable and also to make others comfortable. My nature is caregiver and I want to think that I have learned a few things during ......
September 25, 2017 Living Like the Past
This weekend Charles and I took an early drive to the dairy to buy some milk, cheese etc. From where we live it only takes us a few minutes to g ......
September 20, 2017 Old Fashioned Organizing
Each day we use things. We pick them up, we touch them, move them from one place to another. We wear different clothes, we brush our teeth ......
September 16, 2017 Living Like the Past
The hurricane threw me off my routine. Actually I haven't had much of a routine lately but needing one. Our little hummingbird which I nam ......
September 11, 2017 Living Like the Past
I want to let everyone know we are doing OK here at our house. I want to get this up pretty quick because I don't know if our power will go off. ......
September 7, 2017 Living Like the Past
There are many ways to hand wash clothes and around the world people hand wash their clothing differently.I have always been fascinated with the cemen ......
September 6, 2017 Living Like the Past
I was emailing with a blog friend and was informed that flu has been pretty bad this year in parts of Australia. They are in winter when we are ......
September 5, 2017 Living Like the Past
There has been great interest in our solar light bulbs. We just love these bulbs and gradually we have been building up our stock of these bulbs ......
September 5, 2017 Living Like the Past
This post is to answer a few questions. This one is about oil lamps. I do have a post on oil lamps somewhere on my blog but I will do a re ......
September 4, 2017 Living Like the Past
With all the shifting back in time that we have done the house was getting out of order and I had to find a way to live more like the past in today's ......
August 29, 2017 Living Like the Past
I just want everyone to know that I am taking a short break due to some projects that are taking me longer to do than expected.As many of you know we ......
August 22, 2017 Living Like the Past
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 ......
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 because the sun w ......
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 ......