Tales from FAR Manor

 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 ...

Pop, our orange cat, disappeared a few weeks ago. Missing and presumed… you know the drill. :-( KT, the shy and retiring cat, has been sligh...

 …and when I say over , I mean over . I launched the drone, high (23m, according to the flight log) above the trees to get an unobstructed v...

Kludge. Jury-rig (or the variant, jerry-rig). Lash-up. Sunshine Engineering (named for Mr. Sunshine, who bodged lots of things together that...

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

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 ...

As I’ve said, there were a few upsides to the pandemic (for us, anyway). Avoiding restaurants, for one thing, meant we made a dent in our ov...

They're lookin' back (they're lookin' back) They're lookin' back (they're lookin' back) Too many people look...

I felt pretty decent in the morning, despite all the drama. Still, the house was dark and still (no electricity). Fortunately, by the time I...

Still no power this morning. We decided to hit the retail district to: Get breakfast Look for a generator Pick up some other odds and ends A...

This one didn’t seem as scary as Opal in 1994. Just like Opal, Zeta passed by overnight (or very early Thursday morning). The heavy rain cam...

When I last mentioned it, the county was stripping the pavement off our road in sections, and widening the roadbed. Now, they’ve finished r...

I’ve been thinking for a while that the county should either rename our road to Pothole Parkway, or stop playing whack-a-mole with the deter...

I was tempted to file this one as pandemic-related, but it was more of a “last straw” thing than a completely isolation-related incident. ...

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...

We were supposed  to be in Florida this week, hanging out with Mom and hitting the beach. Instead, we’re at FAR Manor. Over the weekend, 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 ...

Getting Charlie to go to bed can be a crapshoot, especially if he hasn't had a lot of outdoor time to wear himself out… or if he has a c...

Wife observed: “Now that Charlie is four, he’s entering his Terrible Twos.” He’s definitely four, Terrible Twos notwithstanding. He’s cur...