PawPaw's House

When you start casting bullets, your alloy is an unknown quantity. As long as you are casting for black-powder, either muzzleloading or bla...

Today is May 30th. Day after tomorrow is June 1st. The historic beginning of the huricane season and a reminder that the calendar waits fo...

Some mysteries will probably never be solved. James R Hoffa was last seen in 1975. Any good Ask.com search will dredge up thousands of arti...

Memorial Day weekend. Nothing spectacular going on at PawPaw's house, because Milady is working tonite, so will sleep most of the day t...

I had planned a range day this morning, then children started calling, so I took the kids. My kids, you understand, are parents too, so it ...

I see that Mayor Nagin is working on a comprehensive plan to bring New Orleans back. That's good. That's what we expect him to do....

Back a few months ago when the jumbled angst was tumbling across the internet over the degradation of the Koran, I stumbled over to the CAIR...

Great Ceasar's Ghost, the Louisiana Senate just approved a bill mandating ethanol in gasoline sold in the state. Gov. Kathleen Blanco s...

Tired of politics, looking for something I could control, I wandered out to my loading bench today. Junior had sent me a handful of the .3...

I hear Madonna has a new concert out. A musical rebellion against contemporary thought and traditional icons that should shock the religiou...

Not the play, the nitwit who tried to pass himself off as an Army Ranger. Milbloggers have successfully debunked him and revealed him to hav...

I've had a night to think about it, and I admit I have mixed feelings about Nagin and the process that put him in power. One part of th...

New Orleans re-elected Ray Nagin. Only in Louisiana could something like this happen. Only in New Orleans could the man who presided over ...

I see today in the Baton Rouge Advocate that the Grand Jury decided that no one is to be charged in the Temple shooting. You might remember...

I'm the father of the goom, which traditionally would make me a non-participant. Because of the unique circumstances of this wedding we...

This guy was asking about andouille (ahn-do'-ee) and tasso in comments. I had to think about that one a little bit, especially as he wa...

I've got to make a big jambalaya for Saturday. My son specifically asked that my jambalaya appear (as if by magic) at his wedding on Sa...

Last night I had to go to the store to restock the liquor cabinet. I needed some whiskey, rum, and bourbon. I also picked up some champagn...

I've been reading the blogs lately about putting Guradsmen on the border and I started doing a little research. Wikipedia tells us the ...

Warning. Disconnected thoughts rampage through this post. The good people of the city of New Orleans are in the last days of a mayoral elec...