Tales from FAR Manor

Do you know how to deal with witches? I’m talking about the traditional looking ones, like in fairy tales, with pointed hats, crooked teeth ...

What a long strange trip it’s been… and it’s only half-over. Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Johnny fed the end of the pipe through the fence...

And we come to the conclusion. I hope you enjoy it as much as you have the rest — and if you’ve just found it, you can start with Part 1 . W...

I took Mason out for a little walk this afternoon and shot up a few things I’ve been meaning to shoot. But first, the weekly shout to the ne...

Sunday, March 11, 2012 “Check this out!” Cody said, dropping a newspaper on the table. “How did we all miss this?” Tina looked at the he...

Around 15 years ago, I wrote the story that would become the heart of this episode on a Tandy 600 laptop. It might be on a floppy somewhere ...

I’m going to get this done. It might be Thursday when it posts, but I’m going to get this done. First, the weekly welcome to the free-rang...

Thursday, March 8, 2012 They called it The Great Critter Roundup, and people laughed no matter how many times they heard about it. With th...

It appears that Twitter may want to curtail third-party Twitter clients . Now I think Mashable might be overstating the case a little, and t...

I’ve had a lot of positive feedback on the first episode — thanks to everyone who has commented here or on Twitter. The story continues abou...

Things have improved quite a bit in the last two days. The HR person went into the database and could see from the transaction history that ...

If the rest of this week goes as it’s begun, it’s made entirely of fail. It was a rough weekend for nearly everyone here, as the stomach/i...

Ironic — the photo in this post was taken March 2, 2011 — exactly one year before the date of this episode… Contents Friday, March 2, 20...

I’m talking about the biological kind, naturally. Panda had it earlier this week; he got it from his kids who brought it home from school. D...

This story could be considered as accidental as the characters. My blog-buddy AndiF posts a daily photo and a circle of friends gather arou...

The end of Snippet looks to be a permanent thing now. M.A.E., who is plugged into the goings-on of The Boy better than I am, tells me that S...

Friday, February 24, 2012 The first part of the pipeline project involved everyone in Laurel: those not building the spring head or laying...

There’s been enough stuff going on, but not enough time to post mid-week. I hate when that happens, so I’ll just dump everything in one post...

This one is based on Icy Sedgwick’s Photo Prompt 20 . The prompts that prompt me get me to ask a question: the resulting story answers the q...