Tales from FAR Manor

The dynamic completely changed, once Charlie was in the mix. Mason went full-on micromanager, completely losing his shorts over the most tri...

Rain on a popup is a special kind of noise. What hits the bunkends is a nice pitter-patter sound, actually quite soothing. What hits the roo...

Pretty similar to last time The wife’s sister decided the two of them needed a long weekend out. Wife floated it by me, and I thought it ...

Back in the 70s, when we hunted wild tacos with spears to get lunch, W.C. Fritos was the animated spokesperson for one of Frito-Lay’s prima...

Some 15 years ago, I was enjoying Journler . The thing I really liked about it back then was, it could post an entry straight to Blogger. Of...

Mason's latest obsession (the bi-weekly obsessions have mellowed into bi-monthly) is getting a dirt bike. We still have the one we got f...

I had a busy weekend, but a good chunk of it was the busy stuff I wanted to handle (for a change). One of the things at FAR Manor that had l...

Gardening in Georgia is always a crapshoot. One can  usually  deploy plants that don’t handle frost well once mid-April rolls around… but no...

A few weeks ago, one of the other parents on Mason’s soccer team sent some pictures they took during the game to the group text. I cropped s...

Mason was out of school, this last week, and I’ve decided to try taking days off when he’s off—just in case we get the chance to do somethin...

Fire away! Charlie and I have been chucking our golf discs around the house when weather permits (and it permitted much of the last couple w...

Image source: openclipart.org As Daughter Dearest has to be at school at way-too-early a.m., she drops AJ off at our place through the ...

As I’ve said, there were a few upsides to the pandemic (for us, anyway). Avoiding restaurants, for one thing, meant we made a dent in our ov...

With near-incessant rain earlier this month, we brought one of Charlie’s tricycles inside for him to ride when it’s too soupy to ride outsid...

Life on a farm—or FAR Manor—is a constant hack-fest. Sometimes, heavy equipment is required (and at other times, the heavy equipment is the ...

We don’t do these as often as we like, but on occasion Mason will show me something that reminds me to tell him to send screenshots. He’s at...

Image source: openclipart.org A couple weeks ago, I got an email from a product manager: Can you convert these API documents to our format? ...

One of the reasons I didn’t want to buy the house that became FAR Manor, I thought the roof was pretty sketchy-looking. It was obviously une...

King for a day Charlie turned 5 late last week, but of course we waited until Saturday to celebrate. After all, his bio-brother Skylar has h...

Steak is better than sizzle. It’s winter, it was 39°F out late this afternoon, but it was partly sunny with a little breeze. What else to do...