Tales from FAR Manor

I still remember an old  Hägar the Horrible  strip, where the family is gathered around the table. Supper is a pizza, presumably with everyt...

 Check out G3, for lack of a better blog-name right now… I haven’t seen her awake just yet. Man, it's so hard to remember how tiny they ...

A Saturday afternoon mini-adventure started with a text from Daughter Dearest: Can you take big butt truck to help get sizzles truck unstuck...

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...

Somehow, we as a family have been fortunate when it comes to deer encounters. This one marks the third occasion that a deer and one of our c...

We’re on spring break this week… like I said in the last post , we were supposed to be at the beach, but having to cancel a vacation falls i...

Coronavirus (image credit: CDC, public domain) Our “online learning” was extended through Spring Break, the first full week of April her...

Coronavirus (image credit: CDC, public domain) Local schools are on “online learning” this week (and I’m sure that will be extended). I ...

Daughter Dearest’s maternity leave ran out last week, which meant she went grumbling back to work on Monday. And that meant AJ was at the ma...

Say hi to AJ, born Saturday afternoon around 4:30pm local time. Keep me covered! She was a month early, extending our streak to three ...

It’s amazing what they can do with ultrasound these days. They zoomed right in on Granddaughter Dearest’s face… Look at those duck lips!...

Together again! And when I die, and when I’m gone, There’ll be one child born in this world To carry on, to carry on. —Blood, Sweat, an...

It has been a wet winter so far. We’re currently getting a few days of dry (and reasonably nice, for late February) weather… in mid-week, of...

A long time ago, back when The Boy had more than his share of teen angst to deal with, I had a series of “TB” error codes. TB02 was “He mo...

The Boy continues to embrace the whole home ownership thing. He has a pretty decent garden spot (mostly hot peppers, with a few other things...

I haven’t blogged much about Grandkid #2, mainly because I haven’t seen much of her, mainly because The Boy lives about 120 miles from FAR M...