Tales from FAR Manor

I still remember an old  Hägar the Horrible  strip, where the family is gathered around the table. Supper is a pizza, presumably with everyt...

Wow, has it really been four years since I discovered the peach tree next to the composter? Not like there was much more to say. The peache...

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...

 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 ...

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...

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...

One thing about working at home, you don’t have so many distractions. But sometimes, the wife has to go do something on the farm while she a...

We got out on time, but traffic suxxxxxxed. We lost an hour overall. I was hoping to get out before the mad weekend rush, but no such luck. ...

The morning started out, um... interesting. Wife sent me a pic of her iMac screen, showing a blinking question mark over a folder. Figuring ...

More rain is headed our way tomorrow afternoon, but the weekend gave us a pair of not-quite-spring days: a fair measure of sun, and highs of...

…when the daffodils start blooming. This clump is just across the driveway from the front yard. A good reminder that winter doesn’t last for...

 …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...

 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. ...

Everybody around FAR Manor got a letter, week before last: Verizon wants to put a 190' (58m) tower on a hill across the highway, but (an...

Rain on a popup is a special kind of noise. What hits the bunkends is a nice pitter-patter sound, actually quite soothing. What hits the roo...

Mason's latest obsession (the bi-weekly obsessions have mellowed into bi-monthly) is getting a dirt bike. We still have the one we got f...

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...

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...