Tales from FAR Manor

It was bound to happen sooner or later. June and July (so far) have featured thunderstorms pretty much every day. It finally happened Wednes...

With Daughter Dearest’s wedding a ways out yet (T minus 350 days and counting, give or take), details are a little squishy. One thing that w...

Dubbayou tee EFFFFF? Reality is truly stranger than fiction… especially on Planet Georgia. Just go read this . Seriously. Now the qu...

Despite the goofy picture, this is one of the toughest kind of posts to write about. So it seems that Lobster, a former inmate at FAR Mano...

Daughter Dearest has been living in one of the rental trailers below the father-in-law’s place for the last couple months. I haven’t said mu...

I was working at home Thursday morning, minding my own business, when: KA-RASSHHHHH My first thought was, “OMG,  +E.J Hobbs  jus...

Thursday morning dawned bright and interesting. The Boy took Mason down to Newnan, for an overnight with his fiancé's family. She (haven...

This has been an interesting week. Maybe it was synchronicity, or maybe it was the universe sending a message. Anyway, let’s start with a ...

Do traditional publishers think that bottom-feeding is the way to beat Amazon? This has been a disturbing week for anyone watching the p...

Yesterday morning, I’d set up the co-worker with my MacBook Pro because his Dozebox wouldn’t open the files he needed to work on. I had two ...

Pulling a few things together into one post… One corner of the back yard, directly behind the downstairs bathroom(s), is one of those sp...

No, Mason didn’t do this. Mom says I did it when I was a toddler, and tied up traffic on a busy highway. A heap of something white in the ro...

It’s been a long overdue chore to clean out the trunk of my car, and I finally tackled it this weekend. Here's what I found: Trash....

This kind of wafted its way into my Google+ stream. I just — it’s — wow. Reality really is stranger than fiction. See this blast about J...

I was trying to catch up on Twitter this afternoon, when I looked out the window and saw Big V cruising up the driveway in her power-chair. ...

Christmas time is here, by golly Disapproval would be folly — Tom Lehrer With Thanksgiving finally out of the way, Mrs. Fetched went into f...

Even in the alternate universe of Weirditude that is FAR Manor, there are physical laws and constants. One of them is anyone who undertakes ...

It’s too good a graphic to not use when I get the chance, although The Boy disagrees: I was working at home yesterday, and Mrs. Fetched gave...

Wibble : ( UK, Internet slang ) Meaningless or content-free chatter in a discussion; drivel, babble. A lot of little stuff has been happenin...

I came home from choir practice yesterday evening to find the downstairs… rather quiet. The Boy and Snippet were nowhere to be found; my iPa...