As the weather cools we change the type of clothing we wear and often the food we eat. In the past they certainly ate seasonal. Today we can purchase ......
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 26, 2019 Living Like the Past
Each day is different, we have 24 hours to fit in all that needs to be done and get our needed sleep. There are certain chores that are daily and ......
November 19, 2019 Living Like the Past
As some of you that follow my blog you will know that the first day of January 2019 we started a new history project and chose to live this year as if ......
November 5, 2019 Living Like the Past
We all live in different locations and countries and some of us are going into winter soon and some in summer. At this time, after a very hot summer I ......
November 1, 2019 Living Like the Past
I posted a question from T about mold. Here was her question,This is from T that lives in a corner of Michigan that gets lots of lake effect rain. ......
October 23, 2019 Living Like the Past
I wanted so badly to be able to put the quilt on the bed once again. This was the long hot summer that would not end. Finally we have reached a ......
October 15, 2019 Living Like the Past
Sometimes it seems that everyone is tense or bothered by something but actually it is not true that everyone is like this. There is happiness, maybe w ......
October 7, 2019 Living Like the Past
To live a vintage life today we have to make it happen. What is vintage anyway? Vintage has many descriptions. It can be considered somethi ......
October 1, 2019 Living Like the Past
The long Hot Summer... It started before Spring this year, it was hot early. Everything came early so I thought fall would come early and then winter ......
September 20, 2019 Living Like the Past
No, that is not a glass of wine on top of that stove. This post is to answer the cloth question from Julia. We are trying to find a better ......
September 19, 2019 Living Like the Past
Charles and I have been on an adventure into the past for several years now. We have been going by memory of what we considered better times the ......
September 19, 2019 Living Like the Past
Here is the situation of why I have not posted in two weeks. This picture above is the first picture I have been able to save because I had to g ......
September 3, 2019 Living Like the Past
Moving Forward, by going Back to Basics.Life can change course on us at any time. How can we take care of ourselves and especially our children if we ......
August 26, 2019 Living Like the Past
Our lives are delicate. Much more delicate than many people realize. When we are traveling from here to eternity there are a lot of changes.For ......
August 20, 2019 Living Like the Past
The Sensible Refuge - The HomeWe have been canning vegetables, fruits, meats and getting the pantry re stocked. Fall is coming. I could say this again ......
August 13, 2019 Living Like the Past
This is not a post on Sarah's diary but a discussion of how Sarah's diary is affecting many of us that are reading the diary posts. We find that ......
August 6, 2019 Living Like the Past
I hope I can type out the right words in this post that are coming from my heart. I feel that when I was a child I had one foot in the old ......
August 2, 2019 Living Like the Past
I apologize about being so slow getting the diary posts out. I am running on slow lately but still ticking along. I want to mention that I have ......
July 26, 2019 Living Like the Past
Sometimes life changes unexpectedly. It can be most anything. A job loss, a fractured ankle, a death of a loved one, a robbery, storm damage. Sometime ......
July 15, 2019 Living Like the Past
To me life had become just filler food. Before we changed to living a more simple old fashioned life I felt that I was going through life o ......
July 8, 2019 Living Like the Past
We are continuing Sarah's diary. You can go back to read the previous months if you have missed them. Friday, April 1, 1932Cold and cloudy the ea ......
July 4, 2019 Living Like the Past
This is the place I have spent a lot of time lately. If the pillows are at the head of the bed I can look into the kitchen. If they are at ......
June 18, 2019 Living Like the Past
We are continuing with the diary of Sarah. If you have not read January or February they are linked here. Part 1 https://gdonna. ......
June 12, 2019 Living Like the Past
Just a very short post to let you know I am not posting this week to take a needed rest. The heat really does me in this time of year so I am tr ......
June 6, 2019 Living Like the Past
There have been many questions asked since starting the posting of the diaries. Edith's and Sarah's diaries especially.I too have questions and it mak ......
June 6, 2019 Living Like the Past
The food forest has been doing good until the drought started getting worse. We have watered every day and this is difficult for us because we t ......
May 30, 2019 Living Like the Past
I am continuing the diary of Sarah. This is the most special diary that I have. A true treasure. It takes me quite a bit of time to type so it is comi ......
May 29, 2019 Living Like the Past
Can we really go back to a better place, a better time? We cannot go back in time but we can change our life to resemble the past. We do not h ......
May 26, 2019 Living Like the Past
I am back to posting on Albert and Gladys, the 1932 journal of their expenditures during this year of the great depression. If you have not read their ......
May 22, 2019 Living Like the Past
We have been in the 90 degree temperatures and this is only May. Also it is very dry here which is requiring us to hand water our vegetables.We ......