Tales from FAR Manor

But I need to know… how can you be 20, when I keep thinking I’m 20? We went to her fave restaurant for dinner this evening. Mason came, and...

Contents Note : This story has more rude language than FAR Future did. Nothing gratuitous, IMHO, but it’s there. —FARf Tina again stepped t...

I cut out of work a few minutes early yesterday afternoon, being Friday and all. As always, especially at any time before 6 p.m., the first ...

Some longer-time readers may remember when the developers got too close , about a month before I posted the first episode of FAR Future . Wh...

Contents Friday, September 16, 2011 The phone rang once, waking Tina. A moment later, Kelly stuck her head through the bedroom door. “They c...

The Boy and Snippet (and, of course, Mason) spent last weekend and the first couple days of the week with us. To make a long story short, Sn...

Contents Thursday, September 15, 2011 Tina stopped at the QuickFill near the freeway exit for gas and doughnuts on the way in. A couple year...

With Mrs. Fetched sidelined due to her knee injury, there are two guys she and her mom have helping out at with the chickens — one who has b...

OK, that’s it: Tonya Harding is now our official mascot at FAR Manor. The heavy rain may not have brought it on, but chicken houses prefer t...

Of all the disasters FAR Manor is heir to, natural and not ( cough chicken house cough ), flooding doesn’t make the list. We’re on top of ...

Contents In a few short days, at the end of one particular summer, our world ended… Wednesday, September 14, 2011 The commercial babble on t...

I’ve moved this to the White Pickups page , but decided to keep this post in place so anyone who has bookmarked it can find the new place. I...

Yet another pic of Mason, just because I can. We haven’t seen him all week, which is probably a good sign because it means The Boy and Snipp...

OK, I was going for arty: dump the color, bump up the contrast. I like it anyway. The Boy and Snippet (and Mason) spent a couple days at the...

I had some requests for this from time to time. As promised, now that the story is done I’m delivering. Part I 2012 Shortages Everywhere Epi...

Given the title of the story, I thought it would be fitting to set at least one part of it (albeit the end) truly in the far future. It’s a...

Everyone say hi to Mason, born today at 2:18 p.m.: 6 lb 13 oz, 21 inches, everyone’s tired but doing fine. Yup, we all got a promotion. Maso...

When you grow up in a picturesque town, you have to leave for a few years before you can really appreciate it. Allegan might be small enough...

So… it appears that once again, Joe Klein (a Very Serious Person who writes for Time on behalf of the rich and powerful) and Glenn Greenwal...

Friday, September 29, 2045 Too Much Fun OK, I’ll be the first to admit, I overdid it this afternoon. Daughter Dearest let school out at ...