Tales from FAR Manor

I called him Buncha (as in Buncha Bull). Mason called him Bully. The young woman that helps the wife out with farm stuff called him Carl ( C...

When you live in a free-range insane asylum, you never know who (or what) is gonna show up next, looking for a little living space… I gues...

Multitasking: Charlie’s eating and sleeping all at once, while I’m feeding him and typing one-handed! Sun Tzu said, "the wheels of ...

I have been sort of quiet about this, but the wife… well… Already sleeping (and snoring) in my sling I’m joking. This is Charles, the ...

So over the weekend, Daughter Dearest drafted me to help her fiance move… to FAR Manor. With The Boy moving his stuff back to Newnan, the ot...

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...

I haven’t blogged about it much, but  +E.J Hobbs  had been living at FAR Manor for quite a while, helping out where he could and mostly stay...

It’s been a busy week… Awake and ready to go! The few minor issues with my new-to-me Miata are electrical. The driver-side power windo...

Evil Twin shows Mason how to catch a lizard The “more evil” half of the Evil Twins needed some space from her parents—her brothers have ...

Big V came up here Wednesday and spent the night. “It’s for this week,” says the wife, “until she gets her glucose under control.” Like Th...

I really ought to install a revolving door at FAR Manor — M.A.E. lasted about a week at the free-range insane asylum this time. At the begin...

Somebody pinch me. Bonus points if you’re female and I get to pinch back. It appears that we have outlasted the chicken houses! Tyson’...

Lobster hasn’t been at the manor for more than a few minutes at a time since we returned from the resort. We specifically told him to not br...

This is what the room that M.A.E. was staying in looks like at the moment: Mrs. Fetched finally got tired of saying she was going to chuck...

Wow, two in a row! As always, welcome to the new follower: Luca Veste — book blogger, adult student… and father of two daughters! Oh, I’l...

It’s not only Mrs. Fetched’s birthday, it’s also Towel Day ! You know what that means: today, she’s 42 again! She was supposed to get dinner...

Friday the 13 th was pretty long, what with Blogger “routine maintenance” turning into an brownout lasting over 36 hours. All the posts wer...

The end of Snippet looks to be a permanent thing now. M.A.E., who is plugged into the goings-on of The Boy better than I am, tells me that S...

She even looks like an older version of Snippet… Hooray, I say! Things started going our way about a week ago, when Snippet finally got...

I’m trying not to get my hopes up, they’ve been dashed so many times before, but right now it looks good… While I was having a mostly peac...