I normally try to reply to your emails but I have gotten behind. I have read all of my emails and I enjoy hearing from you and reading how you are doi ......
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 ....
March 30, 2020 Living Like the Past
My blog has been around for many years now so I repost some pictures because they are helpful with a new post and because they are in much older ......
March 26, 2020 Living Like the Past
For right now, each day that goes by we should be doing all we can do to help protect ourselves and our family from getting the virus.I make sure to w ......
March 24, 2020 Living Like the Past
Our Generations before us were very resilient because they understood better than any of us today the hard times that may come at any time.They lived ......
March 17, 2020 Living Like the Past
So here we are... never thought of this one before.... The rapidly growing virus. So we shift gears and get ourselves out of the shock of i ......
March 10, 2020 Cooking from Scratch
In my last post that I just did, I mentioned that I would post a easy sandwich bread to make. Bread is not hard to make and only requires a few s ......
March 9, 2020 Living Like the Past
It was curiosity that we decided to study the past. To learn how our generations before us lived. The more we learned the more we wanted to know. ......
March 3, 2020 Living Like the Past
Above is Bernadette's past time, remove the cushions off the chairs in the house.Stay calm and Run, is that how you feel about now? I have ......
February 28, 2020 Living Like the Past
Here we are in a concerning time with all the flu virus, coronavirus, elections, stock market declinning. We are being told different things each day. ......
February 18, 2020 Living Like the Past
I skipped a week of posting to get some things done. I sewed a dress, then I made a new bobbin lace pillow to make lace on. I canned some ......
February 4, 2020 Living Like the Past
A long while back I wrote about having a feeling of homesick even when we are home. For me, I learned that was a mixture of grief and fond memor ......
January 24, 2020 Living Like the Past
I thought I would update on my One Room Proper cleaning that I started awhile back. I must say this has been the best discipline for me to ......
January 18, 2020 Gdonna's TIPS
There are so many things that lead to so many more things to research. One thing leads to another and then I feel that I know so little about so much. ......
January 7, 2020 Living Like the Past
I am going to ask you a question. Are you doing the necessary? It is interesting the things that are unfolding as we study more history and ......
January 1, 2020 Living Like the Past
One thing for sure is we never know from one day to the next what will change. I was slicing ginger two days ago and my finger became part of th ......
December 27, 2019 Living Like the Past
To live a vintage life is not so simple when we live in a modern time as we do. It is something we have to learn and practice if we truly want to live ......
December 18, 2019 Living Like the Past
Each year for many years now, Charles and I have been doing history projects here in our home. We pick a year we want to study and to resemble, we sta ......
December 11, 2019 Living Like the Past
I like to challenge myself to learn more and to do this as long as I can. We learn best by doing and by our failures and success. I learn best by gett ......
December 3, 2019 Living Like the Past
As the weather cools we change the type of clothing we wear and often the food we eat. In the past they certainly ate seasonal. Today we can purchase ......
November 26, 2019 Living Like the Past
Each day is different, we have 24 hours to fit in all that needs to be done and get our needed sleep. There are certain chores that are daily and ......
November 19, 2019 Living Like the Past
As some of you that follow my blog you will know that the first day of January 2019 we started a new history project and chose to live this year as if ......
November 5, 2019 Living Like the Past
We all live in different locations and countries and some of us are going into winter soon and some in summer. At this time, after a very hot summer I ......
November 1, 2019 Living Like the Past
I posted a question from T about mold. Here was her question,This is from T that lives in a corner of Michigan that gets lots of lake effect rain. ......
October 23, 2019 Living Like the Past
I wanted so badly to be able to put the quilt on the bed once again. This was the long hot summer that would not end. Finally we have reached a ......
October 15, 2019 Living Like the Past
Sometimes it seems that everyone is tense or bothered by something but actually it is not true that everyone is like this. There is happiness, maybe w ......
October 7, 2019 Living Like the Past
To live a vintage life today we have to make it happen. What is vintage anyway? Vintage has many descriptions. It can be considered somethi ......
October 1, 2019 Living Like the Past
The long Hot Summer... It started before Spring this year, it was hot early. Everything came early so I thought fall would come early and then winter ......
September 20, 2019 Living Like the Past
No, that is not a glass of wine on top of that stove. This post is to answer the cloth question from Julia. We are trying to find a better ......
September 19, 2019 Living Like the Past
Charles and I have been on an adventure into the past for several years now. We have been going by memory of what we considered better times the ......
September 19, 2019 Living Like the Past
Here is the situation of why I have not posted in two weeks. This picture above is the first picture I have been able to save because I had to g ......