Tales from FAR Manor

Winter #2 arrived at FAR Manor on Christmas Eve, with heavy rain changing over to mixed sleet and snow in late afternoon. We had a break in ...

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...

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’ll spare you the long-winded, self-indulgent preramble. If you live in the US, you know exactly where this is going: you have a metric cro...

The Launch Cannon? Not the exploding pen graphic? That must mean there’s a new book out, right? It’s true. But it’s not The Sorcerer’s D...

Home, home again I like to be here, when I can — Pink Floyd I took the three days off work that the office was open this week, but it...

What I’ll look like, if this cough keeps up. Source:  openclipart.org At least I have an excuse for not blogging much lately, even for #...

The conclusion… The mantle clock struck midnight. As the last chime died away, a tall, thin man stood in the living room, facing the Guar...

Sonya Clark’s comment last week gave me an idea, and I got to write some more about the no-nonsense guardians… “Heyyyy laaaadieeeeezzz…” ...

The sound of an unfamiliar vehicle brought the guardians alert. Only their eyes moved as they watched. Carolers, perhaps , one said. Not t...

The holiday food binge went as expected: we all ate way too much. Daughter Dearest had to work on Black Friday, fortunately just the 10am to...

Well, as smooth as anything ever goes around FAR Manor, anyway. There were no episodes of Daughter Dearest committing mayhem on Snippet, or ...

Mrs. Fetched thinks I’m grinchy. Not so, I just prefer to focus on the social aspects of Christmas — family, feast, reflection — than to mak...

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

First one in over 45 years! The weather peeps said it was coming in at 1 a.m., but I guess it got hung up at the airport. It started at 9...

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Mrs. Fetched wanted the kids to participate… Of course, now that Mason hung ornaments up, he thinks he’s supposed to go pull them off. The p...

Mason ponders the true meaning of Christmas… or maybe he’s thinking about lunch. We got a pretty late start to the day, except for Mason of ...

Taken from the ski hill on the west side of town, a bit before dawn, after Mason had gone back to sleep… ISO160, 60mm, f5, 2.5s, ambient lig...

Another Thanksgiving, one that happened to coincide with my birthday this year (I’ve turned 17 for the 3 rd time if you want to know). I wa...