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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 ....
 
July 29, 2014 Living Like the Past
I had been cleaning and sorting many items in my sewing room and the thought came to me that I needed a few pieces of vintage fabric to make something ......
July 29, 2014 Cooking from Scratch
Need a helping hand?My index finger digit from the first bend to the tip of my finger is one inch. I can use this as a measurement when I am try ......
July 29, 2014 Gdonna's TIPS
I all depends on what you are cooking and which way you like to eat your cabbage.Here is a cabbage (above) and I am pointing to the direction of the t ......
July 28, 2014 Cooking from Scratch
Peach Cobbler just seems right. It all starts with fresh peaches. Peach cobbler can be made with canned peaches but if it is peach se ......
June 25, 2014 Cooking from Scratch
On my website I have several pages on bread making but I have decided to do a more simple page on making white bread by hand.My daughter makes bread u ......
June 17, 2014 Gdonna's TIPS
There are times when the lazy bug bites and preparing a simple salad for lunch gets put off for something less healthy. Some of us have painful days a ......
This is a hummingbird stopping by for a drink.My husband and I enjoy our home. Coming home feels right, it feels satisfying and comfortable. We would ......
Our bathroom floor has tile from 1960 and I truly like this tile but the grout will not turn white no matter how much I clean it. So instead of ......
April 24, 2014 Cooking from Scratch
One of my readers messaged me to visit a website and so I did and I found a pumpkin pie cupcake recipe. I changed it up just a bit to be able to ......
April 24, 2014 Living Like the Past
We can move to a more simple era once we step through our doorway by making choices in how we live. There is a term used when researching one's family ......
April 21, 2014 Living Like the Past
I have many pages to put up on my blog but I have been very busy spring cleaning.Our raised bed frames are finally finished. My husband has worked on ......
March 4, 2014 Living Like the Past
Back in early times baby care was very important as it still should be today. The comfort and warmth or coolness of the baby was extremely important. ......
February 25, 2014 Living Like the Past
Salmon CakesOne day my friend Naomi and I were talking about old times. She was talking about how her mother would make salmon cakes before the family ......
February 19, 2014 Pets
Now Bell and Bootsy have flight cages.This is Bell and she has a missing toe and a slight beak problem. She is very sweet and loves to snuggle i ......
February 14, 2014 Living Like the Past
We love using our vintage items in our home because it reminds us of our past.Many people collect items that are vintage and set them on a shelf and n ......
February 3, 2014 Gardening and Composting
Since I started my website I post pictures of our garden and things we grow. But I pretty much leave out the hard parts of how we got it t ......
January 30, 2014 Living Like the Past
This article is written to hopefully help those that are suffering from some type of pain or condition physically or mentally. I am not giving medical ......
January 11, 2014 Cooking from Scratch
Grandma Donna's Lemon Bread Lemon Bread is somewhere between a bread and a cake. It is best eaten as a semi sweet dess ......
December 27, 2013 Living Like the Past
Or those you loved are gone. Recently I felt a mournful sadness and a desire to go home but there is no going back home because those that I tr ......
December 21, 2013 Old Fashioned Organizing
The Winter Season can be a very good time to sort, clean out files, shred, repair, mend, read and learn new things. ......
December 6, 2013 Pets
We have a Cockatiel named Bell and a Lovebird named Bootsy. My dream was to get our Bell a flight cage and this is her new cage. In my pet section on ......
November 8, 2013 Living Like the Past
Living a vintage life feels like going home. My husband and I already live more simple than most but It feels better and more settled as we remov ......
November 6, 2013 Living Like the Past

 

November 3, 2013 Living Like the Past
Over the years I have written many articles for this website. It started off as a place for genealogy then I changed my website to addres ......
November 1, 2013 Living Like the Past
Every day laundry is being done by hand all over the world. Some use tubs, buckets, rivers, stones, kitchen sinks, bathtubs, shower stalls, or outdoor ......
August 11, 2013 Cooking from Scratch
Grandma Donna is in the kitchen I am adding this page to my website with hope that I can be of some help for those with serious food all ......
August 8, 2013 Pets
Today we were Microchipped! (whatever that means) Katherine, quit yawning and licking, Mom is trying to take our picture! Da ......
July 28, 2013 Cooking from Scratch
HALF LOAF OF BREAD This page is for all of you that desire a half loaf of bread. Many people live alone and a full loaf of bread m ......
July 19, 2013 The Shabby Cabby
Life Does Not Have To Be Dull When my children were growing up I would tell them to be somebody’s sunshine. When they went through their grump ......
July 19, 2013 The Shabby Cabby
The beginning story is under The Beginning of our camper called The Shabby Cabby. Now this page is three years later.............. We ha ......
 
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