Tales from FAR Manor

Kludge. Jury-rig (or the variant, jerry-rig). Lash-up. Sunshine Engineering (named for Mr. Sunshine, who bodged lots of things together that...

A couple weeks ago, I finally decided to start pulling in all the notes I’d saved up from Evernote and Google Keep into Logseq. I started wi...

Backyard play area : I got another pair of eyebolts and hung the old bucket swing beside the nest swing. Charlie has long outgrown its prev...

 I’m fond of saying, “In for a dime, in for a dollar.” Or as one of the villains in White Pickups  put it, “Go big, or go home?” In other wo...

With the framework complete, I tossed four planks onto the joists. Given the length of the boards, I decided to start in the center and work...

This has been going on for a while, but I wanted to make sure it got done before posting, so I didn’t end up with a start without a finish. ...

A Saturday afternoon mini-adventure started with a text from Daughter Dearest: Can you take big butt truck to help get sizzles truck unstuck...

Everybody around FAR Manor got a letter, week before last: Verizon wants to put a 190' (58m) tower on a hill across the highway, but (an...

The wore-out Grim Reaper might not worry you, but Charlie could cute you to death in his Power Rangers outfit. Candy… or else! Yes, that...

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...