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It’s been a while since I’ve done a “What’s New” blog and to be honest, I am falling a little behind. Like I’ve said before we get new products in most every week, and I’d better keep up. The first item this week is a handy little item for woodworkers. Building toy or tool boxes

Today’s blog is about keeping on the ball, gumball that is. You see, one of the store fixtures here at Hill Hardware is our old-fashioned 1-cent gumball machine. I actually acquired it quite a few years ago, before we bought the store. I just like old fashioned mechanical things like that. I have fond memories

  Now that it’s the New Year (and I, for one, am ready for a new one!), that reminds me that it’s been a while since I’ve written about new products. We add new products almost every week, but I don’t always remember to write them up. Well, here we go for the new year.

Today’s blog is about what we did over Halloween weekend. Now don’t get excited, I realize that I’m a holiday behind, but I’ve been busy and I figured that I’d better get this written now before it’s TWO holidays behind. This year as I am sure that you are all aware, there were several things

Those of you that read my blog will remember that Mary Anne and I like to go camping from time to time. We got another chance to go a few weeks ago and decided to trek to Allegheny in Pennsylvania again to take in some of the Fall color. We took the dogs and had

As a (late) end to the Summer, a couple weeks ago Mary Anne and I got to do something fun. She belongs to a cooking club in Fairport Harbor and they get together once a month and share things that they have made for a dinner. This month I got to participate as it was

It’s been a strange sort of Summer here at Hill Hardware Store. In spite of the pandemic, we’ve been very busy, with in-store sales running 30-50% higher than normal. That keeps me hopping pretty good and I haven’t had time to add to the blog. Things are starting to slow a little now that Labor

It’s been a couple weeks since I wrote anything for the blog, but we’ve been pretty busy, literally. In spite of the “stay-at-home” conditions here, the store, which has “essential business” status has been open and busy the whole time. Then when Ohio started to reopen a couple weeks ago I thought things would start

I promised last time that I would wrap up the fascinating mower story last week. Those of you scoring at home may have noticed that I didn’t. It’s not that I was lazy writing the blog, it’s that I didn’t get the mower finished ’till yesterday (boy, is that grass long!). As I was saying

You might not have heard the old saying, “It might be time to save the oil and change the car,” but it might have been appropriate yesterday. It’s supposed to mean that whatever you are working on has about reached the end of it’s useful life. That is about the case for my small push