November, December and perhaps the 1st of January, we do our planting. Arthur has ordered the bulbs earlier in the year and another "extended family outing" gets the daffodils planted. January and February we do clean up, bench and table repair, fence work and some painting and a lot of weeding and raking of leaves. Come mid-March, we're ready for guests, where once again you will find the extended family and friends donating their time to say "hello", direct traffic, sell postcards and answer questions.
Each year, from approximately mid-March to mid-April, 7 days a week from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., weather permitting, the Hill is open to tourists. They come to wander the planted hillsides, gaze at the farm animals, old buildings and the historic barn. There have been as many as 4,000 people on a given day.
Many people have asked why we have created this spot of beauty. Perhaps it is because we enjoy seeing the bulbs blossom forth each springtime, so symbolic of Easter and the Resurrection. Perhaps it is because we want to keep the ""old home place" from falling to ruin and neglect as so many of these old country places are doing. In part too, it is our way of perpetuating the memory of our parents, grandparents and those early-day form folk whose way of life was so hard and so different from our present way of life.
