Living Like the Past

This was a busy day today. I finally cleaned the chandelier. I will take you along for the cleaning journey.It was so dirty! The floor dust probably did part of it but it has been overdue.So each round cup with crystals went into the bowl of shame to be washed.Then into the rinse...Ouuueeee... I love sparkly. See, this is just like everything it is just getting it started and then we are glad we did.I used a old art brush because I didn't want the glass to cut my fingers. Moving along...Now I have to get to the upper and lower crystals that are attached. Some fall off but I just put them back on when it is hanging.To get to these I just hold a bowl under them ......

Getting the house put in better order is slow because many other things to do outside This is normal though, each of us is just one person. If our day is already busy it can be difficult to make room for something else to do and sometimes that requires putting something off until another day.This chair coordinates better in our bedroom since we put all brown furniture in the bedroom after the remodel. Our girls (our doggies) sleep in our room so they have a night time water bowl in the bedroom. We will see if using the portiere's at the doorways will help with cooling this summer. It helped this winter by directing the heat to the rooms that we were using or k ......

Charles and I both feel like we cannot catch up since the time change. We have lost an hour of sleep with the time change because we cannot seem to get our bedtime straightened out. When we change our clocks, we check our fire smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Then when we get up high might as well look for cobwebs and get them while we are at it. Remember our baby seedlings that I was putting in the window ledge? I planted them on January 19 & 20. This was only a few weeks later I took this photo above. Well, they have grown a lot since then. This is the same tomato seedlings. They have been outside basking in 80 plus degree temperat ......

Yesterdays Post I talked about finishing up and starting to put the furniture back in the bedroom. I am re-arranging and swapping out furniture as I go. So I am putting the wash stand here. I painted this piece last year. We started putting the other pieces of furniture in the room. I decided to put all of our brown pieces together and the white pieces together in the guest rooms. But what this has done is I have had to take everything out of every piece of furniture. Oh the stuff!This brings us to the dresser, my dresser from when I was a child. If you have ever heard the saying, if only this piece could talk, well this one can by using my ......

It is late winter here but the flowers do not seem to understand this, they say that it is spring. They must have not seen the memo from the Groundhog. Since the leaves have come out on the apple tree, I wonder if this will become an apple on this branch? Our young tree presented us with one very delicious apple last year. We hope for more this year. Do you think this is a good house? Asks, Mrs. Bluebird. Seems like Mr. Bluebird has different ideas. Do you think the landlord will sturdy up this house? I'll go ask! Looks like it is not just the trees and flowers that think spring will be here soon. I have been quite a ......

Since my last post about leaving the great depression study and moving to settling down somewhere between 1947 & 1965, I have kept moving back and forth to what I want to do and where to land so to speak. It is not a simple thing for me to stop doing studies of different era's in history and just organize and decide what style is best for our home. Most people choose a style for their home or a feeling of how they like it. Even though I lived all of the years of the 1950s I found myself searching through the microfilms of the fifties this past week. As I thought about this, I have never been drawn to modern styles. After being in the studi ......

Even though I have ended the great depression study and moved to living a simple life resembling the 1948 -1965 years, I want to finish this diary of Sarah because it is a great diary to learn how it was to work hard and live during the great depression years. Sarah and her husband live in Ohio. They have a busy life, Sarah a housewife, involved with her church and activities and she is also a local news contributor for their community. Her husband she calls Father, is a farmer. They have five grown children, two sons and three daughters. A total of 14 grandchildren at the time of this diary. Their son Joseph, his wife and children live in another hou ......

Some of you have seen this picture before of my brother. We are 14 months apart born in the 1940s. I am making a big change on my blog and I want to explain. I am going back to basics and basically going home to a time my past. A more simple part of my lifetime. My Brother, my father and myself. I have decided to discontinue the 1930s Great Depression Study, it is not meant for me to do this study. I tried three years ago and Covid began that year and I had to drop the study. The second week of starting the great depression study this year, Charles and I both came down with covid and we have had a difficult time getting over it. ......

The year 1932. Rose is a thirty five year old school teacher in a country school. She is unmarried and lives at home with her parents and family in a rural area in the state of Iowa. Rose has not been teaching and is helping with the house and farm work.We ended last weeks diary reading with this post. Monday, February 15. Helen baked bread. Misty a.m. quite good P.M. Thompson out to work on coup. Bill Corwin and Floyd down in eve. Sewed. Now we continue with the new readings for this week.Tuesday, February 16, 1932. Cloudy, Rainy P.M. and evening. Down to McFaddens to play cards. Started to snow and froze up. Se ......

We continue the Diary of Sarah. Sarah and her husband live in Ohio. They have a busy life, Sarah a housewife, involved with her church and activities and she is also a local news contributor for their community. Her husband she calls Father, is a farmer. They have five grown children, two sons and three daughters. A total of 14 grandchildren at the time of this diary. Their son Joseph, his wife and children live in another house on the same land as Sarah and her husband and Joseph farms with his father. The other four children live on their own farms. We left off last week with Sarah's last post. Saturday, February 20, 1932. &nb ......

We have entered into a time that we call false spring. We leave behind freezing temperatures and go into this wonderful warm weather only to return back to the freezing temperatures. It will dip it's toe back down to frosts and freezes and then back up into the 60 degrees and then even seventies this week and hold that temperature long enough to force some plants out of their winter dormancy. I am even seeing the insects and gecko's stretching their bodies in the warm sunshine. But winter is not over.Here where we live it is common to see our camellias in full bloom this time of year but too early for our fruit trees and for several years now the fruit trees have bloomed to ......

The year 1932. Rose is a thirty five year old school teacher in a country school. She is unmarried and lives at home with her parents and family in a rural area in the state of Iowa. Rose has not been teaching and we are thinking they have possibly closed her school. We are not sure of the reason why, many states, counties and cities have been having problems paying salaries during the great depression, there is also very bad flu at this time as well as scarlet fever. The diary of Rose is a simple diary a bit like the diary of Bob and Lil. It is still part of history and we can get hints of home life during this time.We continue our readings of this diary.Tue ......

We continue the Diary of Sarah. Sarah and her husband live in Ohio. They have a busy life, Sarah a housewife, involved with her church and activities and she is also a local news contributor for their community. Her husband she calls Father, is a farmer. They have five grown children, two sons and three daughters. A total of 14 grandchildren at the time of this diary. Their son Joseph, his wife and children live in another house on the same land as Sarah and her husband and Joseph farms with his father. The other four children live on their own farms. Last weeks reading ended with this post, Saturday, February 13. A fine, bright ......

My first time making crumpets. As we are doing the great depression study we still continue to research our genealogy and part of our study of our ancestors is that we are learning the traditional food from where our ancestors came from. We are finding that it is helping our grocery budget.We live in the United States, our DNA highest numbers link us to England and Northwestern Europe. From my fathers side leans to France and my mothers side leans to England and Northwestern Europe. We also have ancestors from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Norway. I have posted the first time making traditional Cornish Pasties which turned out very good. I am trying to stick to as tradit ......

The year 1932. Rose is a thirty five year old school teacher in a country school. She is unmarried and lives at home with her parents and family in a rural area in the state of Iowa. Rose has not been teaching and we are thinking they have possibly closed her school. We are not sure of the reason why, many states, counties and cities have been having problems paying salaries during the great depression, there is also very bad flu at this time as well as scarlet fever. We continue our readings of this diary.Tuesday, February 2, 1932. Warmer, rain and snowed and got lots colder. Helen and I went to the dentist. Wednesday, February 3. Cold and bright. I was ......

We continue the Diary of Sarah. Sarah and her husband live in Ohio. They have a busy life, Sarah a housewife, involved with her church and activities and she is also and local news contributor for their community. Her husband she calls Father, is a farmer. They have five grown children, two sons and three daughters. A total of 14 grandchildren at the time of this diary. Their son Joseph, his wife and children live in another house on the same land as Sarah and her husband and Joseph farms with his father. The other four children live on their own farms. Last week we left off with a very busy Sarah, her last entry of last week, Saturday, Fe ......

The year 1932. Rose is a thirty five year old school teacher in a country school. She is unmarried and lives at home with her parents and family in a rural area in the state of Iowa. Rose has not been teaching and we are thinking they have possibly closed her school. We are not sure of the reason why, many states, counties and cities have been having problems paying salaries during the great depression, there is also very bad flu at this time as well as scarlet fever. We continue the diary of Rose.Tuesday, January 26, 1932. Warm, snowed about all day. I ironed. Helen and I sewed. Mama and Harland to town in P.M. Mrs. DeWitt Wilson's funeral.Wednesday, J ......

We continue the Diary of Sarah and her family. They live in the United States in the State of Ohio, the year 1932.We left with last weeks post with this post on Saturday, January 30. Clear and severely cold the coldest weather we have had this winter. Had the usual morning tasks to see to, got my eggs ready for town and then got busy with pies - baked 7 pumpkin pies, 2 peach pies and one cream apple. Baked bread and Kuche but was late with it as I had to await Josephs return from town to get the yeast. Gave the living - room and kitchen a special clean-up & mopping for Sunday. Ernest here for supper and the evening mending. A bath, Harry and Roy& ......

We continue with the diary of Rose. The year 1932. Rose is a thirty five year old school teacher in a country school. She is unmarried and lives at home with her parents and family in a rural area in the state of Iowa. Rose has not been teaching and we are thinking they have possibly closed her school. We are not sure of the reason why, many states, counties and cities have been having problems paying salaries, there is also very bad flu at this time as well as scarlet fever. Last week we left off with her last post here. Monday, January 18. Good day. I washed . Mama and Harland to town. Harland up to skinners. Mama and Harla ......

We continue the Diary of Sarah and her family. They live in the United States in the State of Ohio, the year 1932.Last week we left off with the reading, Saturday, January 23, 1932. Cold and cloudy again today. Had the usual early morning tasks to see to and helped Joseph off to town. Baked pies, bread and kuche. Dinner. This P.M. I made some cream tapioca, dressed and cut up a chicken, started a fire in the parlor - preparation of cleaning up the room. gave the living-room and kitchen and especial clean-up usual evening tasks to see to. Ernest, Vera and Jimmie here for supper and the evening mending. A bath.I believe that you will start figuring out as we ......