Tales from FAR Manor

Some cleanup required I was bonking around in the garage Sunday afternoon, not doing much important, when I ran across Mason’s old porch...

Charlie knows it’s important to accessorize when you’re hitting the town on Friday night… I’m going to regret this when I’m older. A b...

Six years ago, Mason was the world’s cutest pirate . Well, Charlie has to try to do everything Mason does, so… The kids at church did...

A couple weeks ago, I noticed my phone was starting to discharge a lot faster than normal. Thinking I had issues with an app not being coope...

Mason’s latest obsession is cars. Muscle cars, sports cars, supercars, anything with eye-popping horsepower and price tags (and insurance qu...

As spring began to slide into summer, I told the wife, “I want to get one of those screen gazebos to put up down at the patio.” “That’s a ...

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...