Tales from FAR Manor

The Committee Of One enjoyed the Memorial Day weekend, and hopes that everyone found sufficient time and money to visit your local theater. ...

EJ has found a job at a nursing home, close to his family, so he moved out. Unlike most of our boarders, this was a more amicable parting of...

[ If you don’t revisit older posts, go back to the graduation post for a portrait and an amusing part of the ceremony I left out originally...

This scheduled-post thing is working pretty well, at least so far. I think it’s pure coincidence that I start talking about family while my ...

It’s been a long day (long week is more like it). Graduating class sizes are rapidly overrunning the facilities they have to put on graduat...

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Starting Over. Sort Of. I want to scream with rage. I want to weep a flood. But I don’t want to wake them up. Je...

I been at this blog for 3 years now. Our Weekend Cinema selection is dedicated to FAR Manor itself: So far away we wait for the day For the ...

She’s such a good sport, letting me post this: If you're reading this, she has finished her last day of school! Graduation is next week...

Stand by for Snippet launch! The Boy didn’t believe we’d follow through. He, Snippet, and even her mom have been trying various tactics, but...

Friday, November 29, 2013 Thanksgiving in the Midst of Disaster I really liked what the prez had to say about Thanksgiving this year: “Make ...

A couple of cellphone shots to wrap up the week… Besides the huckleberries, we have some higher blueberry bushes growing wild on the place. ...

I started cleaning up around the front and side of the manor over the weekend, and re-discovered the huckleberry (blueberry) clump. The plan...

The sage is absolutely covered with these purple blooms now. Up close, they look like tiny iris flowers, don’t they? As long as it’s bloomi...

I needed an excuse to try out Blogger’s new “scheduled post” feature, so I went out and took pix of some of the stuff sproinging up around t...

Well, as I Twitter'ed the other night, M.A.E. (as they say on El Reg ) dropped a sprog yesterday morning. An M.A.E.-let named Emma Renee...

First off, apologies for the long delay. My DSL crapped out Tuesday evening, and it was just fixed today. Just for grins, this is what I had...

Um. Well, now Snippet is not at FAR Manor, at least tonight. A kidney ailment turned out to be a urinary tract infection (I thought only gu...

Mrs. Fetched is reading in bed, and I can’t sleep with the light on. Snippet is supposed to leave tomorrow. It looks like it won’t happen, a...

If you're broke and got too much to do… I can relate. That’s why Weekend Cinema brings you short free videos! Today’s selection is quite...

I was going to post this last night, but got tied up on a proposal for work. Weekend Cinema will come tomorrow. I hope to have a new FAR Fut...