Tales from FAR Manor

Listen up! direct link (11.7MB MP3) | archive page (listen online) I wanted to have this online Sunday, but podcasting is Hard Work. Conte...

A brief quiz: if a gutter looks like this, is it time to replace it? Top view: Bottom view: It's amazing how much crud can accumulate in...

Retailers call today Black Friday — mobs of shoppers starting the real Christmas season now that Thanksgiving is behind us ( burrrrrrp! ). ...

I’m making the challah bread: I use this recipe , except that I put the oven on 325 °F instead of 375. I nearly found that out the hard way....

Another non-relaxing weekend, but I was mentally prepared. This is the weekend, Mrs. Fetched said, that we would get the living room floor ...

Lots and lots of blog fodder has come by in the last few days — so much, I’m having a hard time writing it all down. I recorded a long rambl...

So after spending a pleasant Tuesday working at home, writing the scripts necessary to pull my documentation into an HTMLhelp-style format, ...

And I think it’s theirs , not mine. April Fools Day is 4-½ months away, but it’s still pretty funny.

In the comments on my previous post , Family Man said, “I have to keep saying, you can't go wrong with an outhouse.” While an outhouse ...

The septic tank, once again, got backed up. $350 to pump out 1000 gallons of $#¡+ (which will be bought on the open market by right-wing med...

Last night, I prayed to tell God how I felt about what needed to happen with the elections — believing that God lets us mostly run our affai...

I’m worrying tonight. Not so much about the election; I still think the Dems will take the House and not the Senate, but it will be enough t...

hag•gard (adj.) 1 Looking exhausted and unwell, esp. from fatigue, worry, or suffering How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisee...

There are many things I don’t know about plants. One of the things I didn’t know was that rosemary blossoms in the fall. A little patience (...

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...