Tales from FAR Manor

Contents Wednesday, September 28, 2011 How did I get so lucky? Cody asked himself. She has to be the hottest girl in the world. He lay half...

Once again, I let the blogiversary slip by! Then again, I seem to have forgotten it completely last year. Last time I did this, I commemorat...

A good “hot day” dish, everyone liked it and got extra. I threw this together yesterday for supper from what we had laying around, and it we...

Well, not that weird, not much weirder than any other day at FAR Manor. The day started out kind of promising; Snippet woke up pissy from a...

And a milestone, no less! Flowers, cards, dinner out, and now she’s zorched out in bed and it’s not even 11. These milestone birthdays are t...

Contents Little Ben led Tim, Kelly, Jennifer, and the other kids to his house: a grey Cape Cod with brick trim. He tried the front door, and...

Contents “Kelly and I will take them,” Tina said. “One of them, anyway. I doubt Kelly would let me not make the offer.” That drew several ch...

Now that I’m getting a feel for how GarageBand does things, it (as expected) doesn’t take too long to do these. I just didn’t get a chance t...

If a picture’s worth a thousand words, this would be a looooong blog post. We keep getting cool snaps, and I keep thinking “this one must b...

Contents The kids soon got nervous with everyone hovering over them, watching them eat lunch in the clubhouse, until Jennifer and Kelly shoo...

Audioboo and its five-minute limit is a godsend for me… I can find the time it takes to record and edit a five-minute podcast without too mu...

So we add one to the collection: The Boy got to serve his mini-vacation over the weekend, going in on Friday. Snippet was scheduled to go in...

Contents The trip back to Laurel took longer, with the kids and merchandise weighing things down. Cody volunteered to pull a Kidd Hauler, an...

I’d planned to have at least two posts up this week, but life (as usual) got in the way. Here’s one of the things that kept me busy this wee...

Contents Cleve reluctantly agreed to let the group split up. Tim took some riders to his shop to get the Kidd Haulers, while Jason and Ben r...

Wow, the week’s already gone by? I'm running on battery power, writing through a thunderstorm. Funny how I was thinking earlier this wee...

Did I mention that this is going to be a long day, story-wise? Contents After a brief pause, everyone slipped behind clothes racks or shelve...

Just a few of the things, normal and not-so-normal, going on around the manor this week… The dogwoods shook off their yellow early in the we...

Mason is a proto-vegetarian, as Daughter Dearest was a proto-feminist. He doesn’t like the taste of the beef (or turkey) baby food (the faci...

This is strange. I’m usually the one asking the questions. Think of it as expanding your horizons a little, then. Haha, I can deal with that...