This past week I did some canning. I preserve food many ways, dehydrating, water bath canning, pressure canning, freezing (which I am trying to ......
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 ....
June 16, 2017 Cooking from Scratch
Our living more like the past brings me to spending more time in the kitchen. We all have to eat but today many people eat food that has b ......
June 12, 2017 Living Like the Past
Living like the past in today's world has some advantages. In the past some of the chores were heavy and we have the ability to use things from ......
June 6, 2017 Living Like the Past
A scrap pot I made from a thrift store find. It was an old fondue pot and a single lid from something else.As Charles and I keep walking our pat ......
June 3, 2017 Living Like the Past
Onion Bulb in Bloom...Our life got a bit confusing the last few weeks but we are getting somewhat in a better routine.Our move to a more Vintarian li ......
May 27, 2017 Living Like the Past
Some of you that visit my blog regularly know that my husband and I live an old fashioned vintage life. Those new to my blog, we enjoy doing his ......
May 25, 2017 Cooking from Scratch
I have had several requests for my biscuit recipe since my last post showing us cooking biscuits over the camp fire. I posted the recipe two yea ......
May 20, 2017 Living Like the Past
Wow, May has been a whirlwind here in our home. We have been so busy with normal things such as gardening and housekeeping but adding in finding ......
May 17, 2017 Living Like the Past
As some of you know from my last article Charles and I are trying to live with minimal electric and water. We do not have city gas, we are an all elec ......
May 9, 2017 Living Like the Past
This photo is of me in the 1960's when my husband and I were living in Dill city (not Dell City) Oklahoma. Dill city is close to Burns flat wher ......
May 7, 2017 Gardening and Composting
We will start out little walk here at the side of our driveway. This is the berry Garden filled with blueberry and raspberry bushes. A sma ......
May 5, 2017 Living Like the Past
We had a few sweet potatoes left over from the potatoes we grew last year so I put a few in water to grow some slips.You would think with all these ro ......
May 3, 2017 Cooking from Scratch
I did a bit of a study with some of the foods that I dehydrate to see what works best here in our kitchen.I boiled the potatoes whole until I could pi ......
April 30, 2017 Living Like the Past
For the end of our fourth month living like 1942 I want to share with you a very special knitting pattern and discuss what we have been doing this mon ......
April 29, 2017 Living Like the Past
The handkerchief case...This is part two of Vintage accessories. My mother had the most beautiful accessories. When I was a child I loved ......
April 29, 2017 Living Like the Past
I have had a request for further information for the napkin cover and I will include the knives and forks cover as well.If you would like to make one ......
April 23, 2017 Living Like the Past
Many years ago Charles and I stopped drinking sodas. Charles drinks coffee in the morning but drastically reduced his coffee intake. We mo ......
April 20, 2017 Living Like the Past
I recently read an article in the news about the difficult time that millennials are having and how it is so different for them to leave the nest so t ......
April 18, 2017 Living Like the Past
Since it is getting gardening time in the USA it is also canning and dehydrating time too.We can also take advantage of something being on sale at the ......
April 18, 2017 Living Like the Past
Sometimes those 1940s recipes just don't work out so well.I was going to do a post on Stuffed Eggplant from one of my 1942 cookbooks but...It just did ......
April 15, 2017 Gardening and Composting
This winter we started putting in a secret garden around our camper called the Shabby Cabby. We had issues with our little 16 foot argosy camper ......
April 11, 2017 Living Like the Past
The first daisy has bloomed. Daisies make me happy :)The girls seem to know when I am going to do a post. This is what I see when I turn m ......
April 4, 2017 Living Like the Past
The other evening I asked Charles if we could sit down and talk. I told him I wanted his opinion about something. So we discussed these th ......
March 30, 2017 Living Like the Past
Since we are living Like 1942 we know that a sugar shortage and rationing is looming.In the spring of 1942 as the war is progressing supplies of sug ......
March 26, 2017 Living Like the Past
Sometimes I do things a little bit different.It was getting time to replace our pillows. I have never had much success with washing the pillows ......
March 24, 2017 Living Like the Past
This week has been a bit different. I was cooking some beef stew meat that was cut into chunky cubes and it had been simmering and getting low o ......
March 20, 2017 Living Like the Past
I have posted a few times about patching and piecing fabric. This post is about an old tablecloth that I very much enjoy but it is getting a few holes ......
March 16, 2017 Gardening and Composting
For about a week things we awry. First The devil squirrel came in our yard and ripped up two chair covers. This is our first year to plant artich ......
March 13, 2017 Living Like the Past
A different type of savings account.Charles and I understand the ups and downs of life because we have been through some ourselves. We look forward to ......
March 8, 2017 Living Like the Past
As our journey continues living like 1942 our priorities have shifted. We have just passed our first week of our third month.When I look at ou ......