Tales from FAR Manor

Family Man described the quiet New Year’s the FFamily is planning. We’re going down to Big V’s — it will be interesting to see how it goes....

OK, it’s probably Saturday morning by the time you read this, but you probably don’t want to watch this one at night anyway. Tonight’s featu...

So Mrs. Fetched called me at work today with a list of things to pick up at the grocery store on the way home. (She swears I forgot to get t...

I will always remember Christmas 2006 as the first Christmas where I woke up to thunder. Talk about starting off with a boom…. Now that Chr...

My grandmother’s “Parker House” rolls were both a family treasure and the source of a running joke. Everybody looked forward to Thanksgiving...

I battled an almost-flu kind of cold, chicken house duty, light-hanging duty, and a house full of indifferent people, to get this podcast pu...

Ask the poor folks in this Swedish village . Could be worse. They could live in Cumming, Georgia, instead of some place interesting like Swe...

Sometimes, things just work out. I went looking for sound effects on archive.org last night. I didn't find many, but I found a bunch of ...

Daughter Dearest’s high school chorus is singing the national anthem for the Hawks game tonight about 7 p.m. (EST). If you’re so inclined, y...

Tonight, Mrs. Fetched is in the hospital, recovering from a hysterectomy. I can’t remember the full name, but it’s the kind where they… let’...

The company party was tonight, and was really nice this year. For one thing, it was on a weekend instead of after work so Mrs. Fetched came ...

I'm hoping to have the next Podcast from FAR Manor ready next weekend (16th/17th). My plan for this month’s final segment is “earliest ...

The Boy passed his GED exam! And except for the math, did very well — he averaged 525 out of 600, and that was with the math pulling it down...

Daughter Dearest has been AIM’ing with various people for a while now. She’s hooked up with a 19 year old college student from Indiana, and ...

…but any day that starts out in the chicken houses, and ends by tossing The Boy, I would have to define as a not-so-good one. (Yeah, katiebi...

November said goodbye with a warm, wet kiss — I had the car window open a little yesterday as I drove home. It was still quite pleasant outs...

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....