Tales from FAR Manor

Friday, September 29, 2045 Too Much Fun OK, I’ll be the first to admit, I overdid it this afternoon. Daughter Dearest let school out at ...

A seagull had perched itself on one of those “swim area” markers featured earlier . I go to take the shot, and… Someone has to walk right i...

Sorry about not having this up Monday morning… it just slipped my mind. Future FARf must be starting have memory slips. Sunday, August 13, 2...

Current music: BassDrive Today was Moving Day for Daughter Dearest… back to Reinhardt with her. This year, she got one of the campus apartme...

After shooting a bird sitting on one of the “swim area” posts, Dad suggested I get the driftwood in the foreground for scale. Then I got int...

Whoops, after I finished the story I inserted a new episode right here towards the end. I suppose blog fiction is never done. I’m going to s...

Happy, hungry, and (mostly) looking for new digs: The following are temporary names, I just tag 'em with something until we come up with...

What goes up, must come down. Canon EOS 40D, 28-135mm IS/USM zoom lens 135mm f5.6 1/1600 Straightened and cropped

The Great Unwrapping was yesterday. The doc was pleased with his handiwork, and told me I could pretty much do whatever I wanted as long as ...

One. Hundred. Kind of amazing, isn’t it? And we’re not (quite) finished… Friday, June 23, 2045 The Final Vision That much closer, I guess. I...

Andi’s grass pic this morning reminded me I wanted to post this… The flowers were growing in clumps in various places, mostly in neglected y...

Actually, Dad thinks the geese are rather foul, because that’s what they’ll do to the grass if he doesn’t chase them off. ;-) Seagulls: Lake...

The Cosmic Rule of Everything Governing Vacations Away From FAR Manor is: there’s going to be a crisis. Mrs. Fetched’s mom was kind enough t...

Friday, May 19, 2045 Funeral for Our Friends Rene woke me up yesterday morning shouting “¡Mama! Papa!” and something in Spanish I didn’t cat...

Back from a lovely week in Michigan, visiting relatives and not thinking much about the chicken houses. I’ll have some posts up later, today...

Some things never change… and some, they change and pretend not to. Sunday, April 23, 2045 The Rat Race, Continued Coffee’s a luxury item th...

OK, so… yesterday, the bum knee started to get a little better, but I went to the doc’s to have it checked out anyway. She sent me to X-ray,...

Note: any resemblance to The Last Drop is purely intentional. (Thanks to Andi, Lisa, and Beth for helping me beat on an extended version fo...

It has been a while since the last one of these… in fact, I had to go look it up. Seeing as I’m off work for the next two weeks (hooray!) b...

The road out front of the manor is lined with all sorts of stuff this time of year. Some of it blooms, some doesn’t, and the economy sucks e...