Letters from a Hill Farm

Did you see this on the Grammys? I LOVE this song, and I've ordered the record Ripcord . I bet you can't stay in your chair while yo...

One of the things that goes along with the shift from agricultural to urban in this country is that the old sayings most likely make no sens...

Not the world's best photographs but top to bottom are the icicles out the north window. In the last one, you can see that they are touc...

Tom and I are so sad that Stuart McLean has died. We have spent some of our best times listening to the Vinyl Cafe, entering into the lives ...

We've had a little snow since last Wednesday when I put up the blog header photo of the gnome!

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. How Reading Changed My Life An...

My son Michael works at a ski/snowboard resort, and a co-worker took this video of him.

As I was reading my Oldie magazine this morning, I saw a cartoon that I wanted to post to the blog. I wrote to the cartoonist, Crowden Satz...

Taken at the Flood - book 27 in the Hercule Poirot series  by Agatha Christie mystery 1948 kindle  finished 1/16/17   The book co...

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!  Look to this Day!  For it is Life, the very Life of Life.  In its brief course lie all the  Veri...

The Crofter & The Laird by John McPhee nonfiction 1969 print finished 1/19/17 The Crofter and The Laird has been in our library for...

When we were in our twenties, Tom remarked on the fact that we now had adult memories; that we could look back and see a past. That doesn’t...

The Franchise Affair - book 3 in the Alan Grant series (though he is barely in this one) by Josephine Tey mystery 1948 kindle ...

This is a posting which references two earlier blog entries I've written. One is a a  'product placement' piece on Little Secret...

The Library in the Garret by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret-room Piled high with ca...

Here's a fun video by Plain White T's from a couple years ago. I might have to buy the album!

I have these five books about Scotland on my shelves, and some of them have been there for a long time. Year after year goes by, and I ...