PawPaw's House

Cool, although I am a tragic character. I usually don't do these things, but liked the format of this one. I AM MAXIMUS! Which Action H...

Back in 1981 I moved to Bayou Derbonne, LA, a small agricultural community in Natchitoches Parish, LA. Over the years, the road, the physic...

For all you right minded patriots in San Francisco, if there are any of you left, leave now. Pack up and leave. Let them have their little...

For reasons that only the anti-war crowd will understand, someone started the rumor today that we used white phosphorus against the combatan...

the Oyster. From the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, dead tree edition. I couldn't find it online anywhere: My transcription: Congress Bac...

With Louisiana facing the most damaging budget shortfall in recent history; with Hurricane victims all over the state and the cleanup barely...

I've got it. I understand the problem. When an American city floods, everyone should come to help. The Fed should build levees, everyo...

I find this in comments. j said... Pawpaw, if we eliminate "handouts to individuals" we should also eliminate handouts to corporat...

I decided to play with the digital camera and the scopes on the bench this morning. The views through the scopes appeared quite illuminatin...

You have to read this report from Atlanta. It seems that three men were found to be in a local hotel, and were found to be in possession of ...

I was talking informally with some students last week about current events, and they were talking about the government response to the hurr...

Most of my regular readers know that I eschew the use of scopes on rifles. More correctly, I prefer to use iron sights when I can, but I am...

I was sitting at work yesterday morning, doing a little surfing, when I noticed we had lost internet service. I went to find my tech guy an...

The home computer died tonite. We'll look for another one tomorrow. It was a 3-year-old emachine. In rapid order (6 hours), the on-off...

Well, I'll be damned. David Vitter responded to my email from October 20th. That was almost two weeks ago, so he needs to raise a litt...

I've been putting off writing this post, but there seems to be a weird dichotomy working in Louisiana right now. There are the citizens...

I went back today to look at the .44 mag levergun I alluded to in the below post. I asked the counterman if he hadn't told me about a ....

I was just over at Leverguns , cruising the forum, and I remembered a conversation I had with my local pawnshop counterman the other day. I...

Junior wants to play with reduced loads and is thinking about a squirrel load for the .30-30. Reloaders know that even .22 rimfire ammo co...

During a past life (college) I came to be employed at South Central Bell, as a janitor. My Dad was a telephone man and wrangled a job for m...