A snapdragon from the greenhouse makes the house feel like spring. I am happy to have them growing throughout the winter but I know they will be ......
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 ....
February 12, 2019 Living Like the Past
This post is going to be long because this is two months entries of a diary since I did not get this out in January. This is a Diary of Edith and ......
February 12, 2019 Living Like the Past
The Camellias are beautiful this time of year, one of our winter blooming shrubs.We got the clothesline moved just in time so the sunshine could dry t ......
February 6, 2019 Living Like the Past
I am hoping this will be easier to read the way I have done the diary this time. This is the diary of Theodore and Nellie 1905 that we read last ......
February 5, 2019 Living Like the Past
I have done a lot of thinking lately about the things we have learned researching back in time. I keep wondering about if things were as difficu ......
February 1, 2019 Living Like the Past
Here we are back to visiting the budget and spending journal of Albert and Gladys. This is for the month of February, the year is 1932. Al ......
January 29, 2019 Cooking from Scratch
First off I want to tell you about our surprise visit of a Baltimore Orioles. The Cardinals have been all around lately but a bright orange color caug ......
January 26, 2019 Living Like the Past
I have taken a few days to work through new information from all the research work. This years study is so very different and I will see if I can find ......
January 22, 2019 Living Like the Past
The oldest journal we have I started wrapping it in flannel to keep it protected. The research is going good but it is taking me awhile to get i ......
January 16, 2019 Living Like the Past
So how are we meshing with Now and the Past? The more I research the more I try to resemble how they did things but it is difficult when tod ......
January 14, 2019 Living Like the Past
Wash was always done on Monday period. In a very special situation it was acceptable to wash on Tuesday.Clothes washing has been a very intere ......
January 11, 2019 Old Fashioned Organizing
Long ago, just because something was invented did not mean everyone ran out and got one. It took years for people to become what we would think as mod ......
January 9, 2019 Living Like the Past
We talked about the dish scraper last post and now about the soap shaker or soap saver depending on when we are talking. I used to run water ove ......
January 8, 2019 Living Like the Past
To understand more I started researching around 1880 to 1900, then 1900 to 1920, then 1920 to 1940. These are some of what I found interesting.I ......
January 8, 2019 Old Fashioned Organizing
I have been trying to tweak some things with my blog. One I already announced a few weeks ago that I now have a mailing address for this blog.&n ......
January 4, 2019 Living Like the Past
I hope you all had a safe New Years. Photo above is our New Years Day Meal. Charles and I are starting our first week deep into our journals.&nbs ......
December 31, 2018 Living Like the Past
Charles and I have started a new study. We are moving further back in time. We are changing things up a bit and instead of studying one ye ......
December 23, 2018 Old Fashioned Organizing
It is getting time to put years of research to work. I hope this new year be interesting, calming, productive and educational. Some of you ......
December 20, 2018 Living Like the Past
December is certainly a busy month for Charles and I. This year had so many challenges that my good intentions of making homemade gifts came dow ......
December 11, 2018 Living Like the Past
We are getting ready to start our new study that we will be doing during the real year of 2019. We normally take on a new study each year and we ......
December 6, 2018 Living Like the Past
Here we are almost at the end of 2018 which for us the end of 1944. Even though I did not do a lot of post about our 1944 year, other than the f ......
November 23, 2018 Living Like the Past
It is getting that time for another history project here at our home. We have studied the 1940s home front for many years now. We started ......
November 13, 2018 Living Like the Past
It has been very busy here at our house. I buckled down last week working on the mending pile. I also made slip covers for my favorite roc ......
November 5, 2018 Living Like the Past
This past summer Charles and I worked on changing our backyard garden to a larger container garden. We purchased large cattle troughs and drille ......
October 31, 2018 Living Like the Past
This is a socially busy time of the year. It costs the family a lot of money to go along with holiday traditions and all of this is man made.&nb ......
October 24, 2018 Living Like the Past
I have had this blog for many years, I started it off in early 2000 for doing genealogy and sharing pictures and information with my family, I called ......
October 22, 2018 Living Like the Past
My last post was written just after our internet had been restored from damage due to Hurricane Michael.Here at our house, damage was to the trees and ......
October 15, 2018 Living Like the Past
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 ......
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 ......