PawPaw's House

I am reminded that this weekend is the Run for the Roses, the Kentucky Derby, the biggest show in horse racing.  If you've never been in...

An old one, from Shenandoah in 1989. Y'all get out and enjoy this Sunday.  Make time to pray, and take time to play.

Last night at the pool party, my daughter wanted a photo of her brothers and I. That's my offspring.  PawPaw is the midget in the ba...

The last weekend of April, and it's a wonderful time.  Partly cloudy, cool in the morning, warm in the afternoon, and it's a perfect...

Our immediate family started a tradition a year or so ago.  Every two weeks, we meet at one or another's house on a rotating basis.  We ...

So, I'm sitting here thinking about whether Boston should give Tamerlan a Mahomet burial, or just run him through the Muffin Monster, th...

The headline at The Daily Beast : Will Tamerlan Tsarnaev Get a Muslim Burial? And my first reaction, Who Cares? I certainly don't, bu...

I went to one plumbing supply store and they couldn't help me.  They don't distribute for Price-Pfister, but they sent me down the r...

Fifty degrees out there this morning, I needed a jacket on my first-cup-of-coffee stroll.  Came in and turned the heat on in the house so th...

When it rains, it pours.  After the pool debacles of earlier this year, and me ripping the water meter loose on Monday, I get up this mornin...

This afternoon, just before the buses ran, one of the kids kicked a soccer ball and knocked a hose-bib off a fitting on the practice field. ...

Mowing the grass went well today, in my terribly overgrown front yard.  This was the first cutting of the season. Until I forgot where the...

An interesting synopsis of the Miranda ruling , from Orin Kerr.  1) A lot of people assume that the police are required to read a suspect...

From Rodger Heh!  Indeed.

My laptop crashed a couple of months ago, and because I don't need any real high-strength computer, I've been using Milady's net...

This dog loves sniffing tires, as do most dogs.  Something about the rubber compound in the tire, the various smells that cling to the tire ...

In response to my earlier post on ATF, Rivrdog says in comments: I had a Department Armorer warn me about using anything but straight gun ...

If you've ever had to get a rusty nut off of a rusty machine screw, you know how aggravating it can be to get it to break loose.  So, im...

They're still looking for the remaining sonofabitch who bombed the Boston Marathon.  Seven IED's recovered and the manhunt has pract...

While working unGodly hours yesterday and Tuesday, I notice that Toomey-Manchin went down in ignominious defeat.  All amendments failed to ...