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 ......
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 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 ......
July 24, 2018 Living Like the Past
I have learned a good bit lately and I am finally understand things I should have understood long ago.The best thing that could have happened to me is ......
July 18, 2018 Old Fashioned Organizing
It has been difficult for me to find the time to post articles lately because we have a lot going on here at our house.I am still hand washing all the ......
July 9, 2018 Living Like the Past
This is just a reminder to please check your email address in the contact form because if there is just one letter off or one error my responses back ......
July 3, 2018 Living Like the Past
Boy have I learned a lot this past month! We have been very busy with family visiting here and I have enjoyed seeing everyone in person, d ......
June 24, 2018 Living Like the Past
When something unexpected happens I wonder what am I suppose to learn from this?My last post I wrote about our High Efficiency washer breaking down.&n ......
June 19, 2018 Living Like the Past
Well we finally managed to get the family together, at least part of us. This past weekend we managed to visit one another here at our house.My ......
June 14, 2018 Living Like the Past
I love to let onions bloom out in the garden. They are beautiful and they make seeds :)What to do with just a hand full of blueberries and one f ......
June 5, 2018 Living Like the Past
We are in the first week of June and the spring flowers are already beginning to lose their vitality. I will miss the happiness they bring in th ......
May 30, 2018 Cooking from Scratch
This post is about doing a little at a time. I am not good at multitasking anymore. Actually I am not sure I ever did multitask, I ma ......
May 27, 2018 Living Like the Past
I want to follow the last post about keeping a pantry with a post about how we have made our home to be comfortable during a power outage.I simply do ......
May 26, 2018 Old Fashioned Organizing
First off I would like to explain the cookie banner you might see on my blog. There are new privacy laws and we have to put this on our blogs.&n ......
May 18, 2018 Living Like the Past
When we think of Homesteading we think Rural Homesteading but we do not have to live rural to homestead. This picture above is a picture I took of a l ......
May 13, 2018 Living Like the Past
One thing in life we can be sure of and that is change. All through our lives, each day, things change. The weather, the time, the sun mov ......
May 4, 2018 Living Like the Past
We can look like the present and live like the past. Living like the past is simply living more simple. We can live more simple and still ......
April 26, 2018 Living Like the Past
My mothers friend Fanny Bell was a soft spoken lady. I loved her small home and simple life. Fanny Bell was especially good at one thing, making egg c ......
April 18, 2018 Living Like the Past
Do you see it? I did and we had to turn around and stop and walk to the gate.For just a little while it felt like going home. When my chil ......
April 16, 2018 Living Like the Past
Charles and I have been two busy bees lately. We have been trying to finish up some projects and repairs. We will always have something to ......
April 10, 2018 Living Like the Past
There has been much to do around the house because it is spring but each season brings on new things and as seasons change so do the things we do.When ......
April 4, 2018 Living Like the Past
This is the early morning view from our kitchen sink window. I like to watch the birds taking baths and getting a drink of water in the birdbath that ......