Tales from FAR Manor

This pretty much says it all .

The wife's younger sister called us yesterday morning: "I'm going to let The Boy and his girlfriend live here — they don't ...

I got curious about how much water a storm cloud can hold. Turns out to be a LOT . I decided to go with an inch of rain over a square mile: ...

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

Current music: Jazzmusique This is just amazing . Officials say that more than 26 inches of rain fell in Mumbai on Tuesday. One weather offi...

Current music: RaveTrax Radio Being a little short of cash this week, I had the wife pick up a few frozen dinners last time we went out for ...

The heat index is reaching 100 or worse around here, and naturally the A/C is broken in my car. And naturally, making payments on FAR Manor ...

Current Music: Creation Steppin' Radio With all the other stuff going on around FAR Manor, I haven't really thought much about impen...

One of the fringe benefits of FAR Manor, that I don't enjoy nearly as often as I ought, is a small outbuilding. It's one of those pr...

Current music: di.fm Goa-Psy Like I've said, it's not a 24/7 suck-a-thon here at FAR Manor. I started a few herbs last year: mint, ...

Current music: Transonic - Space After (on Groove Salad) In all the excitement with The Boy, I neglected to mention that Lobster has been ra...

Current music: Groove Salad One of the last coherent thoughts I had before falling asleep last night was praying that The Boy would get seri...

Current music: radioio80s The latest chapter in the soap opera that is my son. Since he's been home the last few weeks, we've been g...

So a week ago, wife-o-licious was mowing the lawn while I was splitting logs (more on that later) and ran the mower over a yellow jacket hol...

We weren't finished drying out from Cindy when Dennis came by. Oh sure, the center of Dennis was over in the next state or two, but tha...

The tropical system formerly known as Cindy came wandering by here overnight. I got all the plants in last night, figuring they didn't n...

I didn’t actually write anything on the blog in June 2005, so I’m using June for background information. If you’re new to Tales from FAR Man...

This post has been superseded by the page, Who ARE These People? — I’ll leave this page up for anyone who has linked to it for whatever rea...

If you Google for "two Georgias," you will find links to lots of articles that contrast Atlanta and the rest of the state. In the ...

It didn't take more than a couple of nights for the boy to realize he can't get too far without us either loaning him wheels or driv...