Tales from FAR Manor

 I’m fond of saying, “In for a dime, in for a dollar.” Or as one of the villains in White Pickups  put it, “Go big, or go home?” In other wo...

With the framework complete, I tossed four planks onto the joists. Given the length of the boards, I decided to start in the center and work...

This has been going on for a while, but I wanted to make sure it got done before posting, so I didn’t end up with a start without a finish. ...

Gardening in Georgia is always a crapshoot. One can  usually  deploy plants that don’t handle frost well once mid-April rolls around… but no...

A few weeks ago, one of the other parents on Mason’s soccer team sent some pictures they took during the game to the group text. I cropped s...

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...

Dialing in the Fuji’s front derailleur has proven harder than expected. I put it on the stand, tweak the cable tension, and it shifts. Take ...

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...

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...

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. ...

Long ago, I observed TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Laptop). I got a throwaway from work, but had to spend $120 to replace a...

Beats camping in a tent, says my 60 year old back. Not quite everything came together last weekend, but good enough: Mason had fall brea...

With a new car in the garage—a 2019 Kia Soul EX—I now have that critical extra seat to take both Mason and Charlie places. I still have the ...

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...

Some cleanup required I was bonking around in the garage Sunday afternoon, not doing much important, when I ran across Mason’s old porch...

As spring began to slide into summer, I told the wife, “I want to get one of those screen gazebos to put up down at the patio.” “That’s a ...

Mason got a mountain bike a while back, and lately he’s wanted to… well, go mountain biking. Imagine. Raleigh M-60… 1998? Well, gee. I...