Tales from FAR Manor

Every few years at FAR Manor, one of the A/C units begins a horribly loud rumbling. The first time this happened, the wife called an HVAC du...

Ah, Friday. The day you come downstairs after wrapping up reports and shutting down the work laptop for the weekend. Two days of rest, relax...

I had a busy weekend, but a good chunk of it was the busy stuff I wanted to handle (for a change). One of the things at FAR Manor that had l...

Mason was out of school, this last week, and I’ve decided to try taking days off when he’s off—just in case we get the chance to do somethin...

Life on a farm—or FAR Manor—is a constant hack-fest. Sometimes, heavy equipment is required (and at other times, the heavy equipment is the ...

One of the reasons I didn’t want to buy the house that became FAR Manor, I thought the roof was pretty sketchy-looking. It was obviously une...

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...

Planet Georgia's sorry excuse for a governor partially lifted the shelter-in-place, starting today. That’s going to have consequences in...

Back before Christmas, Panda was at the manor, and backed up his big truck to turn around… BAM I was working at home that morning, and r...

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 ...

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

Back at the manor for a couple of days, but I’ll be heading out this morning. While I was at Mom’s the last couple of weeks, we kept in to...

I started this project last fall, but only now have I finished it. As you may recall, there was a steep slope between the driveway and the...

Spring #3 has been pretty wet so far. All the rain melted the snow in a hurry, and it’s supposed to be sunny and 70°F Sunday and Monday. If ...

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

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...

FAR Manor has an attached two-car garage, and a detached three-car garage. With all that garage space, we are able to park: one minivan and ...

My God… it's full of pines! As I’ve mentioned before, the landscaping around FAR Manor is largely invasive, and aggressively so. But...

Once more unto the breach, my friends, once more — Shakespeare, Henry V Shooting straight up… and it’s shot, all right! I always th...

The wife asked me to clean off the computer desk in Mason’s room, because she wants to move her video editing system in there. Then the old ...