New life, new blog

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My life looks completely different today than it did six months ago. Life has a way of doing that to us sometimes, doesn't it? I went back and forth with what to do this blog, considering the turn in my life. And I finally decided to start blogging on a regular basis again. Even though my life isn't currently all about homesteading, that is still my ultimate goal. So I will continue my blog with the same look, the same categories and the same viewpoints on God, politics and life in general.

But some things have changed. Perhaps the biggest change is the name. The blog name and the domain have changed. Our homestead, “Victoria Hill Farm,” no longer exists, and so the name no longer seemed appropriate. Instead, I have decided the name should reflect how I intend to live my life – contented.

If you read my sidebar, you will discover a little more about why I choose this particular title. Inspired by the fourth chapter of Philippians, I have made a decision – a choice – to be content with what God has given me.

I’m not yet sure how the content of the blog may change, or if it even will. I will be starting from scratch to build a new homestead from the ground up, and I hope you continue to support me during this time of rebuilding in my life.

If you currently follow the “Victoria Hill Farm” blog through an e-mail subscription or a blog reader, you will need to subscribe to the new feed. Just check the upper right sidebar to subscribe. I currently have the old blog set to redirect to the new domain but it won’t remain that way forever. Be sure to shoot me an e-mail and let me if any of the links don’t work or if anything else is wrong with the new blog. I appreciate all my readers, and feel like I have made a lot of friends in the “bloggy world” since I started blogging in 2007. I hope you’ll continue with me!




Monday, November 9, 2009

Book review: Fit to Be Tied


Fit to Be Tied

Zondervan (November 1, 2009)

by

Robin Lee Hatcher



ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Robin Lee Hatcher discovered her vocation as a novelist after many years of reading everything she could put her hands on, including the backs of cereal boxes and ketchup bottles. The winner of the Christy Award for Excellence in Christian Fiction (Whispers from Yesterday), the RITA Award for Best Inspirational Romance (Patterns of Love and The Shepherd's Voice), two RT Career Achievement Awards (Americana Romance and Inspirational Fiction), and the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award, Robin is the author of over 50 novels, including Catching Katie, named one of the Best Books of 2004 by the Library Journal.

Robin enjoys being with her family, spending time in the beautiful Idaho outdoors, reading books that make her cry, and watching romantic movies. She is passionate about the theater, and several nights every summer, she can be found at the outdoor amphitheater of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, enjoying Shakespeare under the stars. She makes her home outside of Boise, sharing it with Poppet the high-maintenance Papillon



ABOUT THE BOOK

Cleo Arlington dresses like a cowboy, is fearless and fun-loving, and can ride, rope, and wrangle a horse as well as any man. In 1916, however, those talents aren’t what most young women aspire to. But Cleo isn’t most women. Twenty-nine years old and single, Cleo loves life on her father’s Idaho ranch. Still, she hopes someday to marry and have children.

Enter Sherwood Statham, an English aristocrat whose father has sentenced him to a year of work in America to “straighten him out.” Sherwood, who expected a desk job at a posh spa, isn’t happy to be stuck on an Idaho ranch. And he has no idea how to handle Cleo, who’s been challenged with transforming this uptight playboy into a down-home cowboy, because he has never encountered a woman succeeding in a “man’s world.”

Just about everything either of them says or does leaves the other, well, fit to be tied. Cleo Arlington knows everything about horses but nothing about men. And though Cleo believes God’s plan for her includes a husband, it couldn’t possibly be Sherwood Statham. Could it?

Their bumpy trot into romance is frustrating, exhilarating, and ultimately heartwarming.

If you would like to read the first chapter of Fit to Be Tied , go HERE.

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