PawPaw's House

Surfing around this morning, waiting for our travel partners to start moving around, I find this articl e in the Baton Rouge Advocate, talk...

We got as far as Tunica, MS yesterday and checked into a nice Quality Inn near the casino strip.  Awoke this morning to thunderstorms, and t...

Milady and I escaped yesterday, on a long weekend designed to get us out of the net for a few days.  We'll be back sometime Monday or Tu...

Milady and I are on the road this morning on a escape weekend, so I'm giving you a video I took last week of the cats playing on the pat...

Seems like every time I make plans to go on vacation, something crashes.  Two years ago, it was my home A/C unit that crashed the day before...

Thursday afternoon and we've been tormented by thunder storms all day.  Not much rain has fallen on my acre, but thunderstorms have been...

Those of you who read this blog know that I like using a trail camera to evaluate hunting areas, to watch wildlife, and to catch cat-food th...

A recent forum posting asked about carry weights, so I thought I'd get out the scale and see how my various sidearms stacked up.  The s...

Our hunting club disbanded this past month, for a number of good reasons.  It was too hard to find good members, the lease rates were going ...

Eaton Rapids Joe asked about cobbler recipes, and I admit a fondness for easy, filling, tasty sweetness.  Cobbler fits the bill exactly. Y...

Busy this morning, but I've done what I intended to do, and now I'll find a cool, shady spot to siesta for the afternoon.  It's ...

A stretch limo made from three Deloreans . That's just wrong, and so very cool.

Fooling about with the dog, Milady snapped a picture of me tormenting the dog with my baseball cap. No animals were harmed in the filmin...

I'm a fan of game cameras, and love watching the wildlife that appears in the unblinking eye of the camera.  However, a game cam has oth...

Spent the morning working at the nursing home, installing privacy curtains, until we ran out of material, then took Milady to lunch before h...

I see that Louisiana's 1st District congressman, Steve Scalise , has been elected majority whip for the US House. House Republicans ...

It looks like our Governor, Bobby Jindal, today initiated a pissing contest with everybody.  His Secretary of Education, the legislature, t...

Eaton Rapids Joe was talking about poison ivy recently (I couldn't find the post), but it sent me into my memory banks, to find an old-...

Hillary Clinton was talking politics yesterday and made a seemingly boneheaded statement concerning her presumed presidential bid.  As Hot A...

The old lawn tractor took a dump on me Saturday.  It's a 20-year-old Murray, and it's provided good service for a long time, but I d...