Tales from FAR Manor

Soon after lunch last Sunday, Daughter Dearest caught me in the kitchen. “Can you take these and toss 'em in the woods?” she asked, hand...

The Boy continues to embrace the whole home ownership thing. He has a pretty decent garden spot (mostly hot peppers, with a few other things...

I was putzing around at the computer over the weekend, when the wife came in with a pair of rubber gloves. “There’s two baby birds on the de...

I had Charlie out in the gazebo Sunday evening, because he likes to be outside and I wanted him to see the low beach chair I found in the ga...

Most of Mason’s soccer games are at the local park, but each season they have two or three out of town matches. Saturday’s game was up in To...

“More” (hungry kid) While Charlie is still non-verbal at age 2, his speech therapist says he understands a lot more than the average 2 y...

Charlie is mostly laid back, but he definitely has a lazy eye. A few weeks ago, we got to head down to the 'burbs to see an eye doctor—w...

Mason got a mountain bike a while back, and lately he’s wanted to… well, go mountain biking. Imagine. Raleigh M-60… 1998? Well, gee. I...

Sunny days, everything’s A-OK. In the last couple of days, Charlie has all but given up crawling. The utility of being able to move arou...

BIG doggie! Charlie continues to get therapy for his developmental issues. Besides the occupational therapist who makes house calls on T...

With Charlie’s second birthday, he’s finally starting to take those all-important solo first steps. To give him a little more practice, I’ve...

Daughter Dearest’s cat Sprite shuffled off this mortal coil, went to meet his Maker, brought down the curtain and joined the choir eternal… ...

Already doing math Ever since they painted some of the walls at work with it, I’ve wanted to get some of that dry-erase paint and cover ...

Image source: openclipart.org Of course, I’m riffing on the classic M*A*S*H episode Five O'Clock Charlie  here, but it’s not terribl...

… is out. This is a quick bug-fix release, the PageUp and PageDown keys should now work properly (on Macs, use Fn-up-arrow and Fn-down-arr...

I haven’t blogged much about Grandkid #2, mainly because I haven’t seen much of her, mainly because The Boy lives about 120 miles from FAR M...

Get the shot, Granddad, I’m about to pull it off! Somewhere along the line, I’ve  become Charlie’s favorite. It might be because, most d...

It happened on eclipse day, but it took me a while to process. Then I keep putting off the post. Still in denial, I guess. Big V in bett...

Since I was Mason’s age, I’ve always wanted to see a total eclipse in person. So when I learned that it was going to pass only an hour’s dri...

Sunday morning, I went to get something from the kitchen, when I realized I was walking my like old, pre-knee-issues self—long, brisk stride...