Tales from FAR Manor

Contents In the end, they got plenty more help than they needed: just about everyone came out. Those who didn’t come to pull came to watch, ...

Contents Friday, November 11, 2011 They built the ramp in the QuickFill parking lot — twenty feet long, eight feet wide, four feet high — us...

Serendipity: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way With The Boy working (he has A JOB !!!), and Da...

I haven’t lost my mind, it’s backed up on tape somewhere. — Unix fortune cookie Tech-utopians believe that we’re approaching the point where...

You’d think that soldiers tossing grenade simulators at people in a parking lot would be crazy enough for Planet Georgia. Now The Boy tells...

Contents “So Stef’s gonna be okay,” Johnny told the others, eating a late lunch at a large round table in the Laurel Room. “He and Palmer ar...

I took the day off work today to help Daughter Dearest head back to Reinhardt for her junior year. Mrs. Fetched also enlisted Panda to help ...

Contents Saturday, October 29, 2011 Rita was showing Sondra and Johnny how to compress a large wound when Palmer burst through the door, scr...

Buster T. Butthead punched his ticket — the one-way trip to the Great Porch in the Sky, where the slow truck made of meat rolls by every hou...

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 When Cody and Sondra announced that they were building a shooting range at Cody’s old house, Cleve, Johnny, and ...

Mason was 11 months old as of yesterday… has it really been that long? In another month, we’ll be off to the resort… but we’ll have to come...

Today was a day long hoped-for, and even more hoped for since the end of June : M.A.E. and Moptop have moved into their own place! They have...

Saturday, October 22, 2011 Sondra spun around. “That was a gunshot!” she said. “Not far away, either.” She patted her hip. “Damn. It’s in th...

Things happen on their own time at FAR Manor, even maintenance projects. I have to gather my motivation, gather tools and materials, then fi...

Contents Thursday, October 20, 2011 The kids talked among themselves, sitting on the front porch of an empty house, waiting for Jason to arr...

All the other stuff that happened this week… Yesterday came the last step of that little procedure I had last Monday — in other words, they...

OK, imagine for a moment that you work behind the counter at a certain Moe’s, somewhere in Sector 706 of Planet Georgia. A middle-aged coupl...

Contents “Sure,” Tim said, and Cleve took the cheap plastic chair next to Tim; it squeaked a little under Cleve’s weight. “Maybe you’ll have...

An old friend of The Boy — from B.B. (Before the Blog) has come back into the picture. Not living here, thank God, he wouldn’t live very lo...

A little update while Mason’s napping… My stitches itches. But that’s pretty much it. Except for a tiny stinging, it hasn’t hurt at all. I...