Tales from FAR Manor

When I last talked about my remote workspace, I was adding a 40" monitor . So I got rhythm, I got music  I have good lighting, lots (bu...

I’ve been thinking for a while that the county should either rename our road to Pothole Parkway, or stop playing whack-a-mole with the deter...

Mason turned 11 on Tuesday after Labor Day, and the wife planned a bash down at the pond (where there are a couple of pavilions, a swing set...

A store-brand box of penne suggested tossing its (cooked) insides in butter sauce, so I had to have a look. I can’t imagine a recipe easie...

Ever since we put the gazebo up in the front yard, the old backyard retreat has languished. The fire bowl in the table rotted out, and I’v...

Somehow, we as a family have been fortunate when it comes to deer encounters. This one marks the third occasion that a deer and one of our c...

I’ve been plugging along in my new work space for a couple of months, now. A couple weekends ago, while taking some time off, I did turn the...

I was tempted to file this one as pandemic-related, but it was more of a “last straw” thing than a completely isolation-related incident. ...

Planet Georgia's sorry excuse for a governor partially lifted the shelter-in-place, starting today. That’s going to have consequences in...

We’re on spring break this week… like I said in the last post , we were supposed to be at the beach, but having to cancel a vacation falls i...

We were supposed  to be in Florida this week, hanging out with Mom and hitting the beach. Instead, we’re at FAR Manor. Over the weekend, I...

Coronavirus (image credit: CDC, public domain) Our “online learning” was extended through Spring Break, the first full week of April her...

Coronavirus (image credit: CDC, public domain) Local schools are on “online learning” this week (and I’m sure that will be extended). I ...

It’s been a while since I did one of these, and this one goes in deep. We’ve been using DITA at work for a year or two now, but rarely is ...

I called him Buncha (as in Buncha Bull). Mason called him Bully. The young woman that helps the wife out with farm stuff called him Carl ( C...

Today began the way it often does through the week: wife putting AJ next to me on the bed while she gets Mason on the bus. Today, AJ seemed ...

Getting Charlie to go to bed can be a crapshoot, especially if he hasn't had a lot of outdoor time to wear himself out… or if he has a c...

After all the hearings, the forms, the interviews and evaluations, the end was almost anti-climatic. We went into a conference room, the jud...

When you live in a free-range insane asylum, you never know who (or what) is gonna show up next, looking for a little living space… I gues...

Daughter Dearest’s maternity leave ran out last week, which meant she went grumbling back to work on Monday. And that meant AJ was at the ma...