Letters from a Hill Farm

  April - 5 19.  Sable Messenger  - book 2 in the Inspector Knollis series by Francis Vivian mystery 1947 Kindle finished 4/2/21 20.  The Th...

6 in all May - 1 1. Truman by David McCullough nonfiction 1992 print finished 5/12/21 July -   1 2. Bury the Lead - book 29 in the Joe Gunt...

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 I'm reading yet another old mystery by someone I had never heard of before, The Plumley Inheritance by Christopher Bush. I came upon t...

This year I did something I hadn't done since I was a kid. I bought an album called  The New Abnormal by The Strokes based on my love o...

 15.  The Black Cat Murders  - book 2 in the Heathcliff Lennox series by Karen Baugh Menuhin mystery 2019 Kindle finished 3/5/21 16.  The Sp...

Do you remember the early days of Amazon when they included bookmarks in the book orders? I still have two of them. I have a couple little d...

I had to look it up, but our presidential primary was on Tuesday, February 11, 2020. I remember being bowled over when I saw a few people at...

I began three new mystery series this month! 10.  A Shot in the Dark  - book 1 in the Mydworth mysteries by Matthew Costello (with Neil Rich...

My 73rd birthday was a week ago today, and this is the first chance I've really had to sit down and write about it.  The whole family ha...

This evening I watched a live Instagram of Lukas Nelson, and one of the songs he sang was Bowie's "Life On Mars" in honor of t...

" It is a fine thing to preserve and pass on the dolls of the past. And the dolls in native costumes are worth handing down, too, for t...

On Abraham Lincoln's birthday, I thought I would post a poem I learned as a child.  I've never read anything quite like it, and thou...

Yesterday our young friend delivered nine bales of hay from a town about an hour north of us. There won't be more from that source, but ...

Today Tom took two trips to get hay. The first was the feed store in the next state - the place where you can get five bales a week. And who...

 So here we are on Groundhog Day. Tom went in to the farm supply store, and there was no hay. And there will be none till Friday. We have Ne...

To save myself doing so much work at the end of December, I am really going to try and do the stats each month. Read 9 books children's...

January   - 9 1.  The Purple Onion Mystery   (aka Murder on Friday)  - book 7, and last, in the Spike Tracy series  by Harriette Ashbrook my...

I've been all over trying to find a video to show you here, but this is the best I can do. I so hope it will work. It is also on Faceboo...

 This is quite mind-blowing. Because I copied and pasted right from the site, you have to scroll over a bit to read it all but it is worth t...