The oldest journal we have I started wrapping it in flannel to keep it protected. The research is going good but it is taking me awhile to get i ......
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 ....
January 16, 2019 Living Like the Past
So how are we meshing with Now and the Past? The more I research the more I try to resemble how they did things but it is difficult when tod ......
January 14, 2019 Living Like the Past
Wash was always done on Monday period. In a very special situation it was acceptable to wash on Tuesday.Clothes washing has been a very intere ......
January 11, 2019 Old Fashioned Organizing
Long ago, just because something was invented did not mean everyone ran out and got one. It took years for people to become what we would think as mod ......
January 9, 2019 Living Like the Past
We talked about the dish scraper last post and now about the soap shaker or soap saver depending on when we are talking. I used to run water ove ......
January 8, 2019 Living Like the Past
To understand more I started researching around 1880 to 1900, then 1900 to 1920, then 1920 to 1940. These are some of what I found interesting.I ......
January 8, 2019 Old Fashioned Organizing
I have been trying to tweak some things with my blog. One I already announced a few weeks ago that I now have a mailing address for this blog.&n ......
January 4, 2019 Living Like the Past
I hope you all had a safe New Years. Photo above is our New Years Day Meal. Charles and I are starting our first week deep into our journals.&nbs ......
December 31, 2018 Living Like the Past
Charles and I have started a new study. We are moving further back in time. We are changing things up a bit and instead of studying one ye ......
December 23, 2018 Old Fashioned Organizing
It is getting time to put years of research to work. I hope this new year be interesting, calming, productive and educational. Some of you ......
December 20, 2018 Living Like the Past
December is certainly a busy month for Charles and I. This year had so many challenges that my good intentions of making homemade gifts came dow ......
December 11, 2018 Living Like the Past
We are getting ready to start our new study that we will be doing during the real year of 2019. We normally take on a new study each year and we ......
December 6, 2018 Living Like the Past
Here we are almost at the end of 2018 which for us the end of 1944. Even though I did not do a lot of post about our 1944 year, other than the f ......
November 23, 2018 Living Like the Past
It is getting that time for another history project here at our home. We have studied the 1940s home front for many years now. We started ......
November 13, 2018 Living Like the Past
It has been very busy here at our house. I buckled down last week working on the mending pile. I also made slip covers for my favorite roc ......
November 5, 2018 Living Like the Past
This past summer Charles and I worked on changing our backyard garden to a larger container garden. We purchased large cattle troughs and drille ......
October 31, 2018 Living Like the Past
This is a socially busy time of the year. It costs the family a lot of money to go along with holiday traditions and all of this is man made.&nb ......
October 24, 2018 Living Like the Past
I have had this blog for many years, I started it off in early 2000 for doing genealogy and sharing pictures and information with my family, I called ......
October 22, 2018 Living Like the Past
My last post was written just after our internet had been restored from damage due to Hurricane Michael.Here at our house, damage was to the trees and ......
October 15, 2018 Living Like the Past
The week before Hurricane Michael hit, I was outside in the backyard planting turnips and carrots. Charles was outside as well and we looked up ......
October 11, 2018 Living Like the Past
Hello everyone! This is Grandma Donna's daughter. As some of you know, Hurricane Michael hit the Gulf Coast, Southeast corner of Alabama and then kept ......
October 3, 2018 Living Like the Past
My Grandmother taught me the most important life lessons without any words. I learned from observing the things she did. She was never boastful, ......
September 26, 2018 Living Like the Past
Sometimes I am not sure where this life is taking us since it is always changing. The longer I live the more I wish I had just kept life simple ......
September 18, 2018 Living Like the Past
Many boxes of stuff has left our home. I lost count of the trips to the donation places. The top bag sitting on the boxes is synthetic yarn.&n ......
September 7, 2018 Living Like the Past
Our little dog (girl) Katherine, is getting gray. She is 10 years old already. It seems that she was just a puppy. She will be 11 in ......
August 28, 2018 Living Like the Past
When I was a child I made Mississippi Mud Pies. If you thought this post was going to be about some kind of a dessert, it is not.I am talking ab ......
August 23, 2018 Living Like the Past
We live close to the football stadium in our small to middle size city. We are no longer a town but a city and just like many today we are growi ......
August 21, 2018 Living Like the Past
In our house there are two doorways to a hallway that leads to two bedrooms and a bath and half.I am standing in that hallway with my camera taking a ......
August 9, 2018 Living Like the Past
My old garden shoes have made it another summer season. I am not sure if I can get another one out of them.Last post I mentioned I have had pneumonia ......
August 4, 2018 Living Like the Past
After my last post about the 30 day declutter challenge I decided to start my challenge backwards since I was already working on downsizing. I p ......