Tales from FAR Manor

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. ...

We took the boogie board to the beach today. Mason actually did pretty good. A guy about my age had a surfboard, and offered to let Mason tr...

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

Mason and I went to the beach this morning. We brought The Boy’s old skimmer board, and Mason actually did better on it than his dad did.  ...

Well, Mason and I are. Wife can’t leave the farm unattended at the moment, and Charlie has some therapy appointments he couldn’t miss. Mason...

The dynamic completely changed, once Charlie was in the mix. Mason went full-on micromanager, completely losing his shorts over the most tri...

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...

Pretty similar to last time The wife’s sister decided the two of them needed a long weekend out. Wife floated it by me, and I thought it ...

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...

I think a lot of us are relieved to see 2018 in the rear-view, and perhaps are directing a forest of Meaty Middle Fingers its way. But it ha...

It's our timeshare week, and Mason's birthday was yesterday. Splashdown! Today is the last day the waterslide is open, so we ...

It was too much to ask, vacation going on forever. Every time we head home, it seems like there’s some “reason” to get there in a mad rush. ...

For pix of the beach trip, scroll down or jump to the previous post … These trips north give us all a chance to escape the free-range insa...

In an attempt to stretch vacation, I took Thursday and Friday off as well as the entire week. We made the hotel reservations, and only after...

On Monday, we signed out a paddleboat and took a little tour around the lake: Faster, Granddad! There's a beach area on down a wa...

A vacation in Michigan is wonderful, but then there’s the return to the routine and outright misery that is FAR Manor. Nevertheless, I took ...

I realized a long time ago, when I need a car, it will come to me at the right time. My Civic has over 450,000 miles on it (the actual milea...

Vacations always have a sunset clause The problem with escaping FAR Manor is that I can’t stay  escaped. And the recapture always happen...

Mason shows us his latest shell The first couple days of vacation, with a toddler, are best spent simultaneously unwinding and establish...

For the first time in far too long, we all got to escape FAR Manor. Wife-o-licious tried to get her dad to come, but he flip-flopped around ...