Tales from FAR Manor

We got out on time, but traffic suxxxxxxed. We lost an hour overall. I was hoping to get out before the mad weekend rush, but no such luck. ...

We took the boogie board to the beach today. Mason actually did pretty good. A guy about my age had a surfboard, and offered to let Mason tr...

The morning started out, um... interesting. Wife sent me a pic of her iMac screen, showing a blinking question mark over a folder. Figuring ...

Mason and I went to the beach this morning. We brought The Boy’s old skimmer board, and Mason actually did better on it than his dad did.  ...

Well, Mason and I are. Wife can’t leave the farm unattended at the moment, and Charlie has some therapy appointments he couldn’t miss. Mason...

More rain is headed our way tomorrow afternoon, but the weekend gave us a pair of not-quite-spring days: a fair measure of sun, and highs of...

…when the daffodils start blooming. This clump is just across the driveway from the front yard. A good reminder that winter doesn’t last for...

 …and when I say over , I mean over . I launched the drone, high (23m, according to the flight log) above the trees to get an unobstructed v...

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 ...