Tales from FAR Manor

Pull up a chair, young’uns. Today, I bring you a tale from a time when years started with a 1. It was a technologically backward time, befor...

Mason’s latest obsession is cars. Muscle cars, sports cars, supercars, anything with eye-popping horsepower and price tags (and insurance qu...

The Boy, like his progeny Mason, hated naps and would often fight sleep tooth and nail. But I had a secret weapon: I had an Amiga 500 ba...

The snow is gone, the temps aren’t going below freezing past the end of the 7-day forecast, and the rain will arrive in the next couple of h...

Of the places we lived when I was a kid, I guess I’d have to say the house on Sherman Street was my favorite. The back yard bordered on wood...

Beth’s post about tattoos reminded me of something that happened a while back. It was 1983 or so. I had moved to Planet Georgia, but hadn’t...

I was about finished getting the church bulletin together this morning when Mrs. Fetched answered the phone. “Sure, he doesn’t mind,” she sa...

Pet photography can be… frustrating. I learned that a long time ago (dang, has it really been 24 years?). Megabyte (age 11 months at the tim...

Jack at Tallpoppy , a commuting cyclist, writes: Texas just expanded the legitimacy of deadly force to include vehicles and workplaces . [.....

In the comments on my previous post , Family Man said, “I have to keep saying, you can't go wrong with an outhouse.” While an outhouse ...

B1-66er has a rat problem , perhaps brought on by too many years of not cleaning up his apartment. He has, as part of his rat extermination ...

I got a new power brick for my iBook the other day, and the new battery should be shipped as soon as I resolve a credit card issue with the ...

Family Man posts a lot of great stories; today’s was about The Hay Field . It reminded me of a story about Uncle John, a colorful character ...

Warning : Any post on this blog with “Chicken House Hell” in the title is not for the squeamish. You have been warned. My in-laws, not a mil...

Current music: Audible Experience with Kinetica – Orbital Grooves Radio This actually happened some time B. B. (Before the Blog), but it'...