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 ....
July 28, 2021 Living Like the Past
More than ever we need to think about our home as our refuge because that is what it is. Our safe place, no matter what type of home t ......
July 25, 2021 Living Like the Past
We live in a fast paced world and so much has been lost to everyday distractions. Our generations before us never had the things that consume ou ......
July 21, 2021 Living Like the Past
Living simple and intentional can change our lives and get us out of debt, I will explain.My first blog post on this website was July 5 2011. My ......
July 17, 2021 Living Like the Past
I have just started doing very short picture videos to add to my blog posts. My reason is I want to do something to add some calm, joy and encou ......
July 16, 2021 Living Like the Past
Our 1923 Treadle Machine named Clara.I am not sure how our old singer made it to our house from it's original Norfolk Virginia location. I wish I knew ......
July 7, 2021 Living Like the Past
Finding ContentmentContentment comes from within us. Of all of these years that I have lived so far, the people that I have met that I feel ......
June 29, 2021 Living Like the Past
Charles and I have been having some serious discussions lately since Charles is considering retirement. It will not be this year and possibly no ......
June 22, 2021 Living Like the Past
We have had much rain the last several weeks. Quite a bit of rain before the tropical storm Claudette even got near and since then it has rained ......
June 15, 2021 Living Like the Past
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I am slowly getting our home to where I really want and need it to be. I moved the enamelware to the top of Windsor, our 1920s icebox, because i ......
June 14, 2021 Living Like the Past
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I originally posted this post on June 1, 2021 but I unpublished it after only leaving it up for a few hours. I felt it was too long and and I fe ......
June 2, 2021 Living Like the Past
Today is June the 2nd and the garden, I have been painting and cooking and gardening and the garden is getting full but not harvest time. I thou ......
May 25, 2021 Living Like the Past
I am doing a part three of One room proper to answer some questions.A long while ago I was trying different cleaning methods for cleaning our home.&nb ......
May 18, 2021 Living Like the Past
Charles and I have been spending a lot of time at our kitchen table. We have our meals here and we sort items here, we plan here. We recently re ......
May 11, 2021 Living Like the Past
Sometimes we find ourselves in overwhelming situations and some household projects and chores seem too much to complete. But if we keep on movin ......
May 4, 2021 Living Like the Past
This is our backyard from what we call the bottom end. Our yard is like a triangle. It is not a big yard. Each year we change and ad ......
April 28, 2021 Living Like the Past
We each can change the things in our lives that need improvement. We should never just settle with something that is making our life stressful. If eac ......
April 23, 2021 Living Like the Past
Many things have been going on at our house in between posts. We are in the practice stage of Charles retiring. We want to know what we are doin ......
April 15, 2021 Living Like the Past
As keeper of our home, I take my role with utmost importance. I was born before computers, cell phones and television. I remember a t ......
April 7, 2021 Living Like the Past
The morning sun is shining in through the windows. Another day to do the best we can. Another day to continue on with the things left from ......
March 30, 2021 Living Like the Past
Before I get started with this post, I would like to say that our kitchen walls are not this color of yellow. I have noticed that in most all of ......
March 23, 2021 Living Like the Past
Long ago I lived in a little white wooden house. This was in the 1960s and I had only been married for a few years. I was new a being a keeper o ......
March 16, 2021 Living Like the Past
Sometimes we get stuck where we are. Some people can move on, pack up and start over but some people, at least for now must stay where they are. ......
March 10, 2021 Living Like the Past
In this photo it is early dawn. Just as we adjust to the days with less daylight it starts to change again. Many people do not consider when day ......
March 4, 2021 Living Like the Past
As we moved into March, I thought and looked back at where we were in March of 2020 and as the old saying goes, a lot of water has flowed under that b ......
February 23, 2021 Living Like the Past
Long ago families were much closer than we are today. They often lived close enough to visit. and If they did not they visited with neighbors an ......
February 10, 2021 Living Like the Past
It is up to us how we choose to live. Life is full of choices.I enjoy living more like the past and I cannot remember one single home that was m ......
February 6, 2021 Living Like the Past
This week Charles has been busy with his work and I have been at home doing some research, laundry, housework and cooking. Charles and I have put ......
January 26, 2021 Living Like the Past
I want to share a bit more about how we do things with our history projects. My intentions with these studies is to learn about the strengths of our g ......
January 24, 2021 Old Fashioned Organizing
For those of you that are new to this blog, my husband Charles and I study history and we pick a particular year and try to live like that year for on ......
January 18, 2021 Living Like the Past
Through our studies of the past I have learned that many women were very routine with when they did their wash, when they did their ironing. Man ......
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