PawPaw's House

It's interesting to see what a man keeps in his closet, what he thinks important enough to hang on to for many years. One of those thin...

This firearm, I never saw Daddy shoot. It is a Savage Model 720 shotgun, built on the Browning pattern, similar to a Remington Model 11. T...

The second gun that Pop used most often was his duck gun. This shotgun was his favorite, the default gun when shotgunning. It is a Model 1...

Not my words! Say Uncle asks the musical question - When exactly did doctors become money-grubbing bastards? And I thought I was the only o...

My Dad didn't have a big armory. His guns were working guns, although with the pride that any craftsman takes in his tools, you wouldn...

Last night my father passed away after a long battle with cancer. Blogging will be light the next few days.

I got a call from the local pawn shop this week. Milady had a ring being sized by the jeweler they keep on site, and the ring was ready. T...

I love comments. Lots of comments. Comments are good for a writer, and I generally don't respond to comments because I was taught as a...

Milady is home from the hospital, and my sisters have asked if having her home will temper my general distaste for hospitals and physicians....

The Projects have always been a sticking point with law enforcement. Home to the most needy, they are also home to the criminal. While we ...

Yes, indeed, Milady is still in the hospital, though making progress. The tubes are removed and she is eating. She was on a liquid diet la...

I'm not very sophisticated, but I can't figure out what these people are talking about. I'm sitting here stunned when I read thi...

You all remember Show and Tell , that first grade exercise where the student brings something from home and explains it to the class. I be...

Soon as I finish this coffee, I am headed back to that edifice on Third Street. The large brick and glass campus where physicians practice ...

It's Saturday a.m. I'm sitting here with coffee going through mail and dreading the trip to the hospital. I hate hospitals. I abh...

Light blogging this week. Milady is in the hospital. She had surgery to remove a pre-cancerous mass. The surgeon got it out, she's do...

I was over at Dave Petzal's blog and he was talking about recoil. Touchy subject, that. There are so many variables that enter in to t...

After thirty-something years of taking kids to the doctor, and paying doctor bills, and worrying over their fevers and cuts and blisters and...

You've seen the photos. They're so common these days that searching for them is simple. Members of the Religion of Peace advocating...

It looks like a 3 judge, DC Circuit panel has held that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is an individual right. To summarize,...