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 ....
November 25, 2022 Living Like the Past
We are in this together... if you want it to be and if not that is okay too.Some have been asking and some of you long timers here reading along are m ......
November 25, 2022 Living Like the Past
We had a little too much fun today and messed up the house. The blog post is going to be late.So we are all going to bed early and the ......
November 24, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue the Diary readings of Lil and Bob and Lena and her son Richard. These diaries were written during world war 2 in the year of 1943.Th ......
November 18, 2022 Living Like the Past
I just posted yesterday the regular blog post but I want to add this extra post today to ask you all for your help with ideas for staying warm in wint ......
November 18, 2022 Living Like the Past
The title of this post, Learning from the past and changing to what makes more sense. Many of you have read my blog for years and some of you a ......
November 17, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue the reading of the 1943 diaries. First diary is Lil and Bob and the Second Diary is Lena and her son Richard. This is during w ......
November 11, 2022 Back to the Old Well
Picture above is our main table here at home in our dining area, it seats six people. I just changed out the table cloths on each of the th ......
November 10, 2022 Living Like the Past
I type the diaries as they are written including mispelling.We continue our 1943 diary readings of Lil and Bob and Lena and her son Richard.. We ......
November 4, 2022 Living Like the Past
This past January we started off the year with a new history study of living like 1943. Now it is already November, we have kept up with th ......
November 3, 2022 Cooking from Scratch
It seems that wherever we live in this world food prices are increasing. I would like to point out that increased prices are not just where we l ......
November 3, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue the two 1943 Diary readings of Lil and Bob and Lena and her son Richard. During this year, world war 2 is going on and rationing of food a ......
October 28, 2022 Living Like the Past
Certain people in our world that have power and wealth have caused much turmoil and uncertainty for the majority of people. It has spilled over into p ......
October 27, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue the 1943 Diary Readings of Lil and Bob and Lena and her son Richard.We start with Lil and Bob.Friday, October 29, 1943. Nice Day - D ......
October 21, 2022 Back to the Old Well
But what time? It is beautiful up at the tiny house we call Myrtle. We are still nine weeks away from winter (Winter is December ......
October 20, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue our 1943 Diary Readings from two diaries, Lil and Bob and Lena and her son Richard.To read starting January 1st look in the menu Living Li ......
October 14, 2022 Back to the Old Well
The glimpses of things I see as we travel from home to Myrtles have been bringing up memories of home long ago. Had I known what I know now ......
October 13, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue the diary readings of Lil and Bob and Lena and her son Richard. To read the diary readings from the beginning look back at the post ......
October 6, 2022 Living Like the Past
Charles and I have been on the road quite a bit recently trying to get our Tiny house, Myrtle to where we can sleep over so it is not so hard on us ......
October 6, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue with the weekly diary readings of Lil and Bob and Lena and her son Richard. Friday, October 8, 1943. Clouds & Sunshine- B ......
September 30, 2022 Living Like the Past
Our house is over sixty years old and a good solid house but the doors in the house were not good quality. So Charles has been replacing the doo ......
September 29, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue to our two diaries. Lil and Bob and Lena and her son Richard.I type the diaries what they write including spelling....To read from t ......
September 23, 2022 Back to the Old Well
I have been posting lately about our project of working on an old wood shop to have a place to stay so we can be closer by to help a family member tha ......
September 22, 2022 Living Like the Past
First I would like to say that last week's diary readings were a mess and all jumbled up. Over 200 people had already read it that way before I ......
September 16, 2022 Gardening and Composting
Today as I am writing this it has been 33 days since I planted our late summer garden. We have a very small yard and a lot of shade so we do mos ......
September 16, 2022 Living Like the Past
We had a break from posting with the diaries because one of our diary writers, Lena, was in the hospital, now we will be picking up from where we left ......
September 13, 2022 Old Fashioned Organizing
Charles and I start our day early, when all is well I get up around 4:30 and Charles about a half hour later. I spend my early time looking at my ......
September 9, 2022 Back to the Old Well
When I was a thirteen-year-old city girl, I thought that I knew a lot about living the old way because of being around my family that lived ......
September 3, 2022 Back to the Old Well
I am starting a new section of my blog today. It is called Back to the Old Well. Toting water from a well was part of the old way and I am ......
September 2, 2022 Living Like the Past
It is not time to put the quilt on the bed but it will be soon. I have noticed while looking at this picture, that there needs to be a ......
August 28, 2022 Gdonna's TIPS
It is time for Charles and I to look back to early spring and to where we are now. Each year we learn new things about gardening and most everyt ......
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