Letters from a Hill Farm

Last fall I wrote about my two cactus plants. This September we decided to transplant my mother's cactus. It just didn't look like ...

On November 22, 2006, I wrote my very first blog post . It is quite unbelievable to me that 14 years have gone by.To celebrate I am going to...

Do you know this wonderful television series? I've watched it at least twice all the way through and recently bought it on DVD and am wa...

 I have always used glass pans for baking bread, cakes, supper recipes, desserts. My mother always had Pyrex pans, and I continue to use the...

  This is a wonderful, delightful reminiscence of Susan Branch's family Christmas in 1956. She was inspired to write it after reading a ...

I was listening to Jazz 24 the other day when the DJ played Back Home in Indiana , and introduced it by whimsically asking "how many e...

 Yesterday we met Campbell and Indy halfway between our towns, and brought them up here for the day. Margaret did not tell Hazel they were c...

On this night of the blue moon, I could have posted Ella or Billie or Sinatra singing, but honestly I couldn't resist The Marcels ver...

One of the many, many glorious things about living so close to our daughter and her family is that we are often included in their get-togeth...

I happened to hear this song today on a show I've mentioned before The Mop Tops and the King . It was done by Elvis, but I found the o...

Yes, you read that title right. First snow of the season overnight into the morning, after raining all day yesterday. A friend's birthda...

  The photo isn't anything to write home about, but it sure gives the idea of what I saw out the window the other day. I managed to coun...

 Almost exactly a year ago, I posted that we were not going to feed the birds that fall and winter. But as the weather cooled down this mon...

A bunch of my favorite musicians doing this wonderful tribute to Tom Petty. I loved his work, and this is such a special song. More about ...

I thought this would be cheering in these difficult times. What a wonderful man, and such adorable children!!

 Today's poem comes from a book I have called I thought I'd just take a picture and post it, rather than try to type it out! It is a...

 I grew up with parents who had been through the Second World War. My father was in the Army and my mother was a nurse in a hospital at home...