Letters from a Hill Farm

  “Anyone who thinks gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year; for gardening begins in...

From 2014-2017, I wrote a few posts on What I Learned From TV.  This is the introduction I always began with. Each time I do a post about Wh...

   The campaign for a federal holiday in Martin Luther King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan ...

A real sadness for Tom and I to hear that Jeff Beck has died. He was THE BEST as was this band. Rod Stewart vocals. Ron Wood on bass. Mick W...

 

 I have done a couple (though maybe just one) of the Top Ten Tuesday posts. I do enjoy them and mean to do more this year. I didn't hap...

Books Read in 2023 I am simplifying - no more book facts or Tom's books. I went back to 2022, and eliminated them from that year as well...

 This is just a collecting post. January -  1. Marked Man - book 32 in the Joe Gunther series by Archer Mayor mystery 2021 print  library ...

 "Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began..." Charles Spurgeon I have often read these words in British books, or heard...

I posted this a couple years ago, and just had to put it up again. I can never hear it enough. Warms my soul and breaks my heart at the sa...

The Christmas sheepys. You can see we have no snow! The real sheep aren't complaining because they are still doing some grazing in the p...

This is a beautiful version of the song "Moonlight in Vermont". Here's something cool I learned on a jazz radio show. I was am...

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.      Ross Macdo...

 Years ago when I read and wrote about The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society , I mentioned the way a book you are reading can l...

 I wish I'd written down the date I began watching all of Call The Midwife on Netflix. It has been a few weeks now. I've put aside ...

 Old soldiers just fade away Mick Jagger - "Old Habits Die Hard" This line from Jagger's song was running through my head toda...

  Sorry to go on and on, but I like to keep track of the gardens here on the blog. You may just skip over! Today I just got around to stewin...

  If you have stopped by recently, you will have seen the chopped tomatoes as my blog header. I've stewed and strained quite a few tomat...

 If you go here , you will see the last picture taken of the late Queen Elizabeth 11. It is the picture many of us saw when we first read th...

I began this post in July, and am just getting back to it on this first day of September.   Live in each season as it passes: breathe the ai...