PawPaw's House

I got my truck back today from the body shop. I had been in a fender-bender on March 6th and I've been driving a rental. While a new F...

I was moderating comments yesterday and found a comment about a magazine. I approved it then had to go back and find it in the original pos...

This afternoon, after church and lunch, I went out to the Woodsworth range to play with my Savage 10 in .243 Winchester. The little rifle s...

Earth hour . Supposedly a celebration of life, we were supposed to dim our non-essential lights for an hour last night, from 8:30 pm to 9:3...

The Marlin model 60 is a quintessential .22 rimfire rifle. Marlin has been making them for a lot of years and they're easy to find new...

I got off work, came home and changed into blue jeans. We're heading to Jena to eat supper with Milady's family. She has a sister ...

Milady started Weight Watcher's last month. Since we married in 2003, I've gained a few pounds. It's time to lose weight and w...

The father of my best friend once told me that every man should have three things in his life to give him the red-ass. A wife, a Dodge truc...

My blogroll hasn't changed much in the last couple of years, because I'm lazy and because I read the blogs I have listed there. One ...

From Sipsey Street , we learn of an article that talks about our President's Volunteer Corps, who is trying to pump up popular support ...

What's this all about? I'm having trouble envisioning this firearm . A Boyce man was arrested Saturday afternoon after he shot a n...

We've got a dog. A Shih Tzu named Beau. Shih Tzu's are long haired dogs, bred in China, descended from the Gobi Desert Kitchen Mi...

Let's talk about immigration for a moment. It was one of the big concerns during the presidential campaign and it's still a topic o...

It's time to start worrying about springtime here in Central Louisiana. Temps today in the mid 70s and we're off and running for th...

Gun buy-backs don't really affect street crime. For starters, the price paid is often ridiculously low for a functioning firearm, and c...

Some idiot Senator from Iowa has lost his damned mind. And yeah, so we don't have to play "Guess The Party", he's a Repub...

This quiz , over at American Progress.org intends to rank people on how liberal or conservative they might be. I've taken it twice in t...

Today, under leaden skies, rain-soaked skies, I helped the Boy Scouts conduct a bass tournament at Woodson's Landing on the Saline-Larto...

Years ago, as a boy, I was enamored of Canada geese, probably because they were forbidden from the game lists in Louisiana. Every so often,...

We learn this afternoon that Wal-Mart, the huge retailer has been downgraded as a stock, based on fears that Card-Check legislation might af...