Tales from FAR Manor

With this post, I’ll be going dim again for a while. Work followed me home this weekend . I should have the next episode up on schedule, whi...

When I first moved to Planet Georgia in March 1983, my first thought upon entering metro Atlanta was, “don’t these people know what traffic ...

Oh grey water, keep on flowin’ Planet Georgia moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me… As I’ve mentioned before, we’ve had some issues with th...

A blah ending to a crappy week… but hey, blah is an improvement, right? Things are getting better going into the weekend! We hope. I always ...

Of course it would be a cloudy night, with a lunar eclipse happening tonight! This was the best I could do. I had better (less) cloud cover ...

I’ve been debating about whether to include this episode, or just work it in sideways. But if I don’t post something , who knows how long be...

When you don’t have much time, When you got you no money, You want that Weekend Cinema To bring you something funny! Archive.org is a treasu...

Mrs. Fetched is getting better now. [ cue SFX: stadium cheer ] She wasn’t quite up to prom dress shopping with Daughter Dearest as planned, ...

Mrs. Fetched decided this morning that she had me take her to the doctor about whatever it is she has. He isn’t sure! It’s not the flu, and ...

I had something kind of knocked together in my head yesterday that I wanted to put here, but then I forgot to post it last night and it’s co...

“WTF?” — FARfetched “That’s just WEIRD.” — Daughter Dearest So some guy who calls himself “Buffalax” took a music video from India and added...

A brief interlude as part of the story. I’m about ready to start the next cycle. Sunday, April 7, 2013 Why Are We Still Here? It’s a nice sp...

This is pretty much all that’s left of the house just down and across from FAR Manor. It seems the old guy was cooking in the kitchen and so...

I hadn’t been doing a very good job of updating this week. A couple nights I felt like reading instead of getting on the computer. We’re sta...

The big day arrived at last. We wanted to make it as easy as possible, so we had moved stuff out of the way, including removing the door bet...

The drought here may be over — we’ve had above-normal rainfall for a month now. It’s not wiping out our deficit very fast, but maybe we’ll d...

Of the places we lived when I was a kid, I guess I’d have to say the house on Sherman Street was my favorite. The back yard bordered on wood...

Short, free, and you don’t even have to leave the seat you’re in now! (Wow… has it really been November since I posted one of these?) I’ve ...

I’ve always wanted to do something like this . “The most splendidly pointless space experiment of all time” — and they expect it to survive ...

Stay warm, everyone. Spring’s comin’. In FAR Future , it’s about here. Friday, March 8, 2013 Spreading the Wealth This has been all over the...