PawPaw's House

This video (Quick-time required) shows one of the easiest shots in hunting. Drilling a pig in the brain. What is truly impressive is that...

It seems arsonists have destroyed Jena High School. Just damn. Much of my wife's family graduated from that high school. My wife among...

I came home today to find a crew in my front yard. Cutting limbs away from the power lines. I walked out to greet them and the chief told ...

I got home today and found that in the midst of daughter's finals and term papers, the printer had died. Gone tits-up. Finis. So, seco...

I'm working a string of fifteen hour days, so blogging is suffering. So be it. Duty first. However, the electric stove posting below is...

I hate an electic stove. Just hate them. Can't cook on the damned things, because I can't see the fire. Naturally, I live in an all...

I spent the afternoon in my deer stand today, at tree-top level in a young pine plantation. It's thick in there, by God, so thick that ...

One of the threads over at The Gun Thing talks about concealed carry revolvers. I started talking about mine over there. It's the Smith...

Today I got the electrical system operating in the pool house. Lights that turn on and off, receptacles that work, outdoor motion sensor li...

I carry a pocket knife. Every day, every where. I can't imagine being without a knife. No, it's not some whiz-bang tactical knife....

Thanksgiving is upon us and we're going to my Mother's house for the Thanksgiving meal. Momma feeds upwards of fifty people every y...

I'm a fan of the Law and Order series, and all the variants, CSI, SVU, etc. Milady and I watch them at night when we're together an...

A raid in Atlanta went wrong and a 92 year old woman is dead, and three police officers are wounded. The woman, identified by relatives as ...

It's cold tonight in central Louisiana. Almost no wind, under a crystal clear sky with a new moon. The temperature will drop down into ...

I see this post over at TFS Magnum . It took 15 minutes and two phone calls to 911 to get deputies to respond to an emergency call made by S...

I noticed shingles on the ground last night when coming in from the backyard. Dammit. Milady and I bought this house in November 2004 and a...

I was able to score a few smoked turkeys at a fundraiser on Saturday. This morning I was able to check Milady out of the hospital, and we d...

Evidently, some students at U of Cal are upset about the campus police using a taser on a student who was trespassing at the library. They ...

Milady is doing fine after surgery. I spent the day at her side, pestering the heck out of her. The surgeon came in for evening rounds and...

Milady has a staph infection and is in the hospital. She ran me off at about 11:00 last night. She is scheduled for surgery this morning to ...