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 ....
May 15, 2022 Living Like the Past
First I want to let you know that I will be taking two weeks off from posting. I need extra time to take care of some projects here at home.&nbs ......
May 10, 2022 Living Like the Past
Each one of us live in a different way, we enjoy different food, we have different styles and our home reflects something about us in different ways.& ......
May 9, 2022 Living Like the Past
We pick up from last week with the two diaries of Lil and Lena. Our first diary is about Lil and Bob. This week Lil is feeling very poorly ......
May 3, 2022 Living Like the Past
Today is Tuesday and it is ironing day (among other things), I try to do certain chores on certain days but not always. If I skip ironing o ......
May 1, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue the 1943 Diary Readings of Lil and Lena. To Read from the beginning go back through the menu bar and click Living like the past and ......
April 25, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue to study the homefront during ww2 and this year we are studying 1943. We are following along day by day reading the microfilms in th ......
April 25, 2022 Living Like the Past
Today we continue the diaries of Lil and Lena. Our first diary is of Lil and Bob. This is during ww2 and the year is 1943. Lil and Bob are ......
April 19, 2022 Gardening and Composting
To me this Blackeyed Susan, means bring it on, the garden has begun! Last year we walked through a sea of Blackeyed Susans but this year th ......
April 18, 2022 Living Like the Past
We are continuing the 1943 diary's of Lil and Lena. our first diary is Lil and Bob. This is during world war II , Bob and Lil are in their mid- 70's a ......
April 12, 2022 Living Like the Past
Charles and I are trying to take our simple life to another level. We are trying to live in a way that there is very minimal cost in t ......
April 11, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue reading the diaries of Lil and Lena. To find the Diary readings Starting January 1943 look for the red and black diaries. ......
April 5, 2022 Living Like the Past
I started this post early this morning and then my server crashed and then there is the weather. But I am back hoping it will stay up.&nbs ......
April 5, 2022 Living Like the Past
Todays post will be up tomorrow or the next day. We are getting weather warnings already this morning for severe weather, straight line winds, p ......
April 4, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue with our diary readings from 1943. We pick up on the diary of Bob and Lil. Lil is the writer of the diary. Bob and Lil a ......
March 28, 2022 Living Like the Past
Spring arrived this month and has put out some brilliant colors after a grayish winter. I will enjoy this moment in time of these beautiful colo ......
March 28, 2022 Living Like the Past
Continuing the diary of Lil and Bob. They are in their seventies, this is during world war 2, Bob works odd jobs and does war duty by going to t ......
March 21, 2022 Living Like the Past
The History Studies that Charles and I have done have taught us many things and I want to share this very important part of what we have learned and w ......
March 21, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue the reading of our diary from Lil and Bob. I type out the diaries as was written by the writers.Monday, March 22 1943. Fine day - To ......
March 17, 2022 Cooking from Scratch
I did a post called one foot in 1943 and one foot in 2022 and I showed a Pizza that I had made using dehydrated vegetables and mentioned that Pizza wa ......
March 15, 2022 Living Like the Past
I have started using a file box for our garden seeds. Since starting the study of 1943 I keep trying to remember my childhood living in our ......
March 15, 2022 Living Like the Past
We can tell the month of the year by where the sun comes into our home. The dining room window faces east and the sun has moved over enough now& ......
March 14, 2022 Living Like the Past
We will continue with our diary reading for Lil's diary. Bob and Lil are in their 70s and this diary is written in the year 1943. Bob does ......
March 7, 2022 Living Like the Past
I wrote a post many years ago called A comfortable home. It has been awhile since that post and I decided to make a new post about Making a Comf ......
March 7, 2022 Living Like the Past
We continue with this weeks diary reading. I will start with the diary of Lil and Bob. Lil and Bob are in their mid 70's and Bob is doing ......
March 1, 2022 Living Like the Past
It is March 1, 1943. Our history project is now taking us on a new journey of rationing. A good lesson for us all, no matter if we are doi ......
February 28, 2022 Living Like the Past
We resume our diary readings. We are starting with the diary of Lil and Bob. Lil and Bob are in their mid 70s. It is 1943 and the point sy ......
February 21, 2022 Living Like the Past
Now we are getting closer to our big changes in our history study. It is time to register for our war book number 2. There is now a ban fo ......
February 21, 2022 Living Like the Past
Each week I have been doing a Diary reading post and then a regular post the next day about the history study and what is going on around our home.&nb ......
February 16, 2022 Living Like the Past
Here we are middle of our second month of our history study of the year 1943. World war 2 is going on, people have been asked to ration food on ......
February 14, 2022 Living Like the Past
I want to mention here that Charles and I have been very busy and my regular posting will be a few days late this week. Charles took some t ......
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