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 ....
January 17, 2022 Living Like the Past
Anyone new that has just popped in on this post, this year of 2022 we are doing a history study of living like the year 1943. There is a Part one ......
January 17, 2022 Living Like the Past
Here we are, our third week in 1943. I am so excited about the comments and emails and the interest in this study. Now in week three ......
January 13, 2022 Living Like the Past
I had a bag of loose ration stamps and I decided to paste them to paper so we could study them better.It was quite interesting how they came up with a ......
January 11, 2022 Living Like the Past
We have been reading from Lil's Diary, I posted her first week under the blog post Four Days in with our 1943 History Project. I will tr ......
January 10, 2022 Living Like the Past
Our 1943 Ration Office has been a bit scattered this week but we are pulling it together. If you happened upon this blog for the first time ......
January 4, 2022 Living Like the Past
The first two days of January we continued to go through clothing to reduce our clothing down to more like what people had during 1943. We pulle ......
December 31, 2021 Living Like the Past
Hello everyone, Charles and I want to wish you all a Happy New Year!Here we are about to jump out of 2021 and jump into 1943. This is New ......
December 29, 2021 Living Like the Past
If you have happened upon my blog, we are about to start an new History project living like 1943 for a year and I am posting each day inform ......
December 29, 2021 Living Like the Past
We will need Ration book two when we start our year of 1943. We signed up for this book two in December 1942 but we have not been issued the boo ......
December 28, 2021 Living Like the Past
This book one was Issued to the public in May of 1942. At first it was used to ration sugar and later other coupons in this book were used for o ......
December 27, 2021 Living Like the Past
Charles and I had our talk as we do this time of year about what history project we want to do and Charles said that he really enjoyed our year of 194 ......
December 16, 2021 Living Like the Past
I am still on break but I wanted to pop in to say we are doing okay here. I have needed this time off and still need more time but I do not ......
November 27, 2021 Living Like the Past
I want to let you all know that I will be taking a break from posting. I do not know how long this break will be but do not worry, I will be bac ......
November 22, 2021 Living Like the Past
Beautiful color everywhere we look.It is a beautiful fall here in the southeast part of the United States. Cooler weather is slipping in and man ......
November 15, 2021 Living Like the Past
Last week was a good week, I feel that I have been making better progress on organizing our home. I am adjusting our home for change because we ......
November 8, 2021 Living Like the Past
This morning we had our first frost. This time of year our citrus trees are starting to ripen but are still not ready for harvest ......
November 2, 2021 Living Like the Past
We have dropped below 50 degrees / 10 degrees Celsius and finally the flannel can come back out again. This weekend we are supposed to drop to 41 degr ......
October 26, 2021 Living Like the Past
I have been working on a new household schedule. Two months ago I purchased a daily appointment book. I decide that if I was going to keep ......
October 18, 2021 Living Like the Past
Our latest research has been about food. Charles and I have been studying and doing history projects for many years now because we want to know ......
October 11, 2021 Living Like the Past
.JPG)
This photo is of my Grandmother in the year 1908.And this is a few years before she passed away. She was a wonderful, kind, loving, humble ......
October 4, 2021 Living Like the Past
People come up with sayings such as we should not live in the past or never look back. These are just words that someone says. W ......
September 27, 2021 Living Like the Past
I have been looking forward to the new season of Fall and here it is now where we live. The daytime temperatures are still uncomfortably wa ......
September 20, 2021 Living Like the Past
Charles purchased a fresh ginger root this past week and we have been enjoying fresh warm ginger tea with lemon and honey. We hav ......
September 15, 2021 Living Like the Past
This is Tim, Grandma Donna's son. Mom asked me to let you know that their internet is down and due to Covid there is a long wait for service repairs s.....
September 7, 2021 Gardening and Composting
The entire back yard grew together during this hot humid summer. During the time that we have not been able to get out due to the heat, rain and ......
September 1, 2021 Living Like the Past
I am back at my desk this morning after quite an interesting day of storms that produced severe thunderstorms and tornadoes and it ended last nig ......
August 31, 2021 Old Fashioned Organizing
As the Covid pandemic worsens where we live, Charles and I have realized that there is an area that we forgot about concerning living a more pre ......
August 25, 2021 Living Like the Past
I can see that life is going on all around us even during this critical time that we are living.Somehow a seed was planted in this sma ......
August 17, 2021 Pets
A photo of Margaret aka Maggie.I thought it was a good time to do an update on our four legged family members and a good time for me because I ne ......
August 13, 2021 Living Like the Past
I thought I would do a short post and a comforting video for this weekend. Tropical Storm Fred is still on the same path at this time heading in ......
Loading more pages