Letters from a Hill Farm

I withdrew from both these challenges. I've written to the women who created them to let them know. I've found my life to be a bit...

Van Morrison/Back On Top/1999 Tom chose this for today's cd, and I couldn't be more pleased. Everytime I hear a Van Morrison album, ...

Only one person in a thousand is a bore and he is interesting because he is one person in a thousand. Sir Harold Nicolson

Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. Alex Levine - Irish actor a...

Daffy-down-dilly Has come to town In a yellow petticoat And a pretty green gown.

This is one of my favorite cookbooks. It has passages from the Mitford books, followed by a recipe for the food mentioned. The note on thi...

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. Adlai Stevenson

Yes, it is snowing. Lightly, but still. What a week this has been. Is anyone else having trouble with the time change? I've been out...

Tony DeSare/Last First Kiss/2007 This is the second cd by a wonderful young singer. It opens with a great surprise, Prince's, Kiss. In...

Brett Dennen/So Much More/2006 Perhaps you've seen the Rolling Stone quote about Brett Dennen: He's timeless, he's probably twe...

Look at that little thing. It's available in gold or silver. I think I'm more a silver kinda girl, so I chose this one. Now, you ...

This is the mailbox that was here when we bought the house in 1981. We have no idea how long it had been in use before we arrived. We'v...

"Mud, mud, glorious mud." Between winter and spring, we have a truly lovely time called mud season. I could barely get up our dir...

I recently saw Giada De Laurentiis make this on her Everyday Italian show, and knew immediately that I had to try it. Well, today was the ...

Sophie Milman/2004 A wonderful cd by a new young artist. You may read more and see videos here . You may buy the cd here .

Freesias are not a flower I knew in my childhood. I first heard of them in the 1970s when I began reading the books by Derek Tangye about ...

With the temps in the mid-thirties (above zero!), finally we could take a walk up the road into the woods. The first interesting sight was ...

I do wish the government would have one time all year and keep it. Gladys Taber, Country Chronicle

Not exactly what the lyricists of those songs we hear in December were talking about. We're riding along in a wonderland of snow We...