Letters from a Hill Farm

I'm stretching Weekend Cooking as far as it will go! For many years I have been doing a yoga exercise on youtube with a fellow c...

There's a place that I know Where the sycamores grow And daffodils have their fun Where the cares of the day Seem to slowly fade awa...

All the restaurants and bars in the state have been ordered to close. So the local eateries are offering take-out only. There are all kinds ...

I am feeling a wee bit brilliant today. Here is how it all began. I buy Kleenex from Amazon. They come in packages of four, and cost no more...

Not the human kind, but the animal kind. There is a lot of living that goes on in wintertime under the snow. Molehills A little tr...

I haven't posted a poem by this woman in a lot of years. She was a friend of ours who has since died. You may find more of her poems her...

From In Chancery , published 1920. A character is pondering the death of Queen Victoria who lived from 1819 to 1901. "Never again w...

February - 5 7. Overdue - book two in the Village Library series by Elizabeth Spann Craig mystery 2019 Kindle finished 2/6/20 I like...

On this our shared birthday here is George singing. I'm sorry there wasn't a live version, but this one is kind of nice because it s...

Busy Signal No busy signal from his cell, Instead I'm on "call waiting." I can't hang up the phone and so I'm lef...

Only a collecting post.

These were the best cranberry muffins I've ever tasted. In fact, I had a couple other recipes for them in the recipe box, and I thre...

I had a good reading month, though I still mean to read more of my print books. I've begun my reading from the 1920s. January - 6 1....

Did you ever read The Napping House by Audrey and Don Wood? Wonderful children's book.

Written by her bassist, Gene Taylor , this is Nina Simone singing. These words were written by the person who posted the video, Baye Kambu...

Do you remember Letterman singing this song? Well, we got our kitties today, and it was 11:30 when I took these pictures. That's Gem...

These two quotes are from this year's Susan Branch calendar - A Year in the English Countryside. The Kipling is on the cover, and the El...

I am finally putting up a post for British Isles Friday, a weekly event which may be found here . It is rather the perfect thing for me who ...

These were in my mother's photo album. Happily she dated them, so I know they are from the 1920s. She grew up on a farm, and went to sch...

I know I've mentioned my mother here on the blog, and put up pictures, but I'm quite sure I've not told you this story. When I w...