Tales from FAR Manor

Ready to scoop the candy! Yes, that’s Daughter Dearest with the wings. So far, we haven’t had anyone come by tonight — what I expected, unfo...

With the Moonshine Festival out of the way, so also goes October. Perhaps now I'll get to rest on weekend mornings. It would be good s...

B1-66er has a rat problem , perhaps brought on by too many years of not cleaning up his apartment. He has, as part of his rat extermination ...

Daughter Dearest told me this morning that she’d gotten the word: she made All-State Chorus this year! w00T!

I think this is going to be stuck in my head for a while. Click the link that says "This Song" if you dare. You risk getting it s...

Daughter Dearest managed to get this shot somehow. Things happen quick when you're in a car, and the time it takes the dig the camera ou...

In my mind’s eye, I see a custodian bringing a dusty box out of some nondescript storage room. A whole case of Industrial-strength Whoop-As...

Current music: 1.fm Trance It used to be that moving in the office was something you started hearing about long before it actually happened....

Yeesh, Wednesday already? So I had just pulled into church for choir practice this evening, when I got a phone call. The Boy’s number came u...

At 4 a.m., I was only slightly awakened by Mrs. Fetched. "Farf." As anyone still 90% asleep would, I answered, "Unh." ...

The guy who would do the work on my Civic finally got around to coughing up an estimate yesterday. He thinks he can put the back bumper bac...

A handful of things that didn’t necessary merit their own posts… Fury asked for a close-up of the yellow flowers growing all over the mano...

Mrs. Fetched’s mom was given a small double-wide with water damage, which she plans to set up as a vacation rental. For now, though, it’s a ...

Yet another non-slackerly weekend, with Mrs. Fetched volunteering me to help out the church at the community yard sale. Getting up at 6-some...

With the advent of cooler weather, the fall flowers (and weeds) are coming in. Some of the weeds are offering fairly decent bribes this time...

This is something that happened a couple of weeks ago. Indeed, it was almost 17 years to the day after the wreck that brought Daughter Deare...

When things happen, sometimes they happen quickly. Last week, M.A.E. started going out with some guy she met at work. This weekend, she wasn...

Hey at least Family Man had what he aptly calls a “slackerly weekend.” Me, I barely got a chance to do any work work, let alone slacking. M...

Wednesday, IT figured out what the last problem was setting up my MacBook Pro and brought it over. Sweeeeeet. I spent part of yesterday and ...

The Boy has probably borrowed my car for the last time. He told me he would be home from band practice by 11, and I told him that if he wasn...