Tales from FAR Manor

I must have whacked my knee a good one the other day at the chicken houses. It started hurting a bit the night before last; it woke me up ar...

All I can say to this is: don't I wish!!!

Continuing the holiday baking series… I wonder how many will be left tomorrow morning. I told The Boy in passing that I was making them, thi...

It is said "the wheels of justice turn slowly." But turn they do, and they came around late last week for The Boy. Back around the...

[I’ve wanted to write this story for over a year now. Olga, my B&D Muse, finally took pity on me and let me get it down.] Santa Claus li...

The Boy has been back to pushing the envelope just as far as he can, lately. After the incident a couple weekends ago , he’s been around… oh...

Via Man Eegee… The Lakota people are seceding from the US , taking what appear to be large chunks of five states with them: I’d like to get ...

Tomorrow is Virtual Friday. One more day, and I’m outta there for what’s left of the year! Hooray!  Our department is having a little wing-d...

Happy New Year! Kind of. Monday, January 14, 2013 Froze in the Middle The Mayan calendar began a new cycle on December 21. It’s not exactly ...

We (mostly) got our 3-day weekend after all. Mrs. Fetched woke up Saturday morning feeling much better than the day before, and continued to...

“Sheriff’s Office.” “Hey. Listen, my neighbor, Family Man, is hiding drugs in his woodpile?” “Oh. Is that so?” “Yeah. One of the logs is hol...

The company Christmas party is tomorrow, and Mrs. Fetched & I came up with a wonderful idea: I take Monday as a floating holiday and we ...

Beth’s post about tattoos reminded me of something that happened a while back. It was 1983 or so. I had moved to Planet Georgia, but hadn’t...

The local Dairy Queen has their Christmas decor up. This window is next to the door, and something about it just didn’t seem right to me. On...

During recent spam-cleaning, I found a link in Episode 9 to a German translation. The page was rife with ads, so it could have been a blog s...

I did this last year in a podcast, but many of you have started reading this year. So… Hope you enjoy it! For those of you on dialup, here’s...

Delighted, that is, that I came home from work yesterday to find FAR Manor all decorated (which means I didn’t have to do it)! Mrs. Fetched ...

Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. I appreciate each & every one of you. If I were to design a calendar, it would be circular. ...

How things build up over time and eventually boil over. I tend to be goal-oriented . Instead of endlessly discussing a problem, how it happe...

A lot of people were at FAR Manor today, but the food was more than up to the challenge. The only surprise was when Cousin Splat came in, he...