Tales from FAR Manor

We took the boogie board to the beach today. Mason actually did pretty good. A guy about my age had a surfboard, and offered to let Mason tr...

The morning started out, um... interesting. Wife sent me a pic of her iMac screen, showing a blinking question mark over a folder. Figuring ...

More rain is headed our way tomorrow afternoon, but the weekend gave us a pair of not-quite-spring days: a fair measure of sun, and highs of...

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...

A few weeks ago, one of the other parents on Mason’s soccer team sent some pictures they took during the game to the group text. I cropped s...

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...

We don’t do these as often as we like, but on occasion Mason will show me something that reminds me to tell him to send screenshots. He’s at...

When I last mentioned it, the county was stripping the pavement off our road in sections, and widening the roadbed. Now, they’ve finished r...

Mason turned 11 on Tuesday after Labor Day, and the wife planned a bash down at the pond (where there are a couple of pavilions, a swing set...

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...

I asked Mason what he thought of AJ after he had a chance to hold her. “Small, warm… and her nose is really tiny.” Tiny nose! Grainy l...

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 ...

Mason took to Minecraft like a natural-born bricklayer. He comes up with some rather interesting constructs from time to time, and we’ve tal...

Mason’s latest obsession is cars. Muscle cars, sports cars, supercars, anything with eye-popping horsepower and price tags (and insurance qu...

Most of Mason’s soccer games are at the local park, but each season they have two or three out of town matches. Saturday’s game was up in To...

Mason got a mountain bike a while back, and lately he’s wanted to… well, go mountain biking. Imagine. Raleigh M-60… 1998? Well, gee. I...

Already doing math Ever since they painted some of the walls at work with it, I’ve wanted to get some of that dry-erase paint and cover ...

Get the shot, Granddad, I’m about to pull it off! Somewhere along the line, I’ve  become Charlie’s favorite. It might be because, most d...