Tales from FAR Manor

Back in the 70s, when we hunted wild tacos with spears to get lunch, W.C. Fritos was the animated spokesperson for one of Frito-Lay’s prima...

Fire away! Charlie and I have been chucking our golf discs around the house when weather permits (and it permitted much of the last couple w...

Image source: openclipart.org As Daughter Dearest has to be at school at way-too-early a.m., she drops AJ off at our place through the ...

With near-incessant rain earlier this month, we brought one of Charlie’s tricycles inside for him to ride when it’s too soupy to ride outsid...

King for a day Charlie turned 5 late last week, but of course we waited until Saturday to celebrate. After all, his bio-brother Skylar has h...

We finally got going with the decorations last night. Once again, Mason went under the stairs to eject boxes (and wish he could turn that sp...

Ever since we put the gazebo up in the front yard, the old backyard retreat has languished. The fire bowl in the table rotted out, and I’v...

We were supposed  to be in Florida this week, hanging out with Mom and hitting the beach. Instead, we’re at FAR Manor. Over the weekend, I...

Getting Charlie to go to bed can be a crapshoot, especially if he hasn't had a lot of outdoor time to wear himself out… or if he has a c...

After all the hearings, the forms, the interviews and evaluations, the end was almost anti-climatic. We went into a conference room, the jud...

Wife observed: “Now that Charlie is four, he’s entering his Terrible Twos.” He’s definitely four, Terrible Twos notwithstanding. He’s cur...

AJ is doing very well. She had her first church visit yesterday, and that went well. She has put on a pound since she came home from the hos...

I’ll let the pics do the talking…

A couple Fridays ago, I went to pick up Charlie from daycare, and this is what he looked like: Fence 1, Nose and Forehead 0 …but he cam...

I found this after the fact: Mikel, Mason, and Charlie, all in one pic. It was from last December, when he came up to spend Christmas with u...

With a new car in the garage—a 2019 Kia Soul EX—I now have that critical extra seat to take both Mason and Charlie places. I still have the ...

I’m one of those people who like liverwurst. Always have. I gave it up for a while, what with the weight gain and high blood pressure, but B...

Some cleanup required I was bonking around in the garage Sunday afternoon, not doing much important, when I ran across Mason’s old porch...

Charlie knows it’s important to accessorize when you’re hitting the town on Friday night… I’m going to regret this when I’m older. A b...

Six years ago, Mason was the world’s cutest pirate . Well, Charlie has to try to do everything Mason does, so… The kids at church did...