PawPaw's House

It's been a while since I wore one of these, and the legend and lore of the Cavalry Stetson is strong in my blood.  While the Stetson ha...

It was a rough week, with three officers tragically killed.  We started off with Trooper Steven Vincent, gunned down on the side of a Louisi...

No, that's not a mis-spelling, that's a word.  Shottist.  I was scrolling through Cooper's Commentaries this morning and stumbl...

I talked earlier about my daughter-in-law who does graphic design.  She helped me with our Thorn Valley logo. I needed a B/W logo that we co...

Thank God It's Friday, the end of the workaday week.  Saturday is the club shoot, and Sunday we're feeding the kids, so we'll ha...

While I was playing in the backyard yesterday, another fatal drama was playing out in St. Landry parish.  I learn this morning that another ...

We set up the targets this afternoon and had a little Wednesday night shoot.  Invited the neighbor, strapped him up, and let him try his han...

Growing the club is one of our goals for this year.  Several of us have been working on the things that other people see, so that we can get...

Keeping a weather eye on the Atlantic and Caribbean, we find that a disturbance we watched earlier has morphed into a tropical storm.  After...

I find today on my doorstep, a package from the Displaced Louisiana Guy .  Milady's holster has arrived.  She's been jonesing for a ...

I have just learned with much grief and sadness that Senior Trooper Steven Vincen t has succumbed to his wounds.  Sr. Trooper Vincent was sh...

My brother David is in town for the day, and he brought me two bottles of Vermont whiskey.  Maple whiskey.  Seriously. The bottle on the...

As predicted, Danny has weakened to a tropical storm.  He still bears watching because these things are known to pick up steam as they trav...

Beau has been spending a lot of time relaxing on the back porch. There's noting wrong with hanging out on the back porch.

Saturday afternoons are club shoot days at the Thorn Valley Shootists Society, my home club.  We're a small club and we were only affili...

From what I'm reading , Hurricane Danny is a compact storm, barely 60 miles across with hurricane force winds extending only 15 miles fr...

Talking wiht a non-cop coworker today, we were discussing justifiable violence and I was reminded of a story from my young cop days. Mid 1...

I've got to brag on the US Postal Service.  When I order something and they tell me it's coming via USPS, I generally groan, but her...

Welcome Tropical Storm Danny to the 2015 hurricane season.  Nola.com reports that Danny is forecast to become a hurricane soon. It's...

The little creamery from Brenham, TX has had their problems recently, with a listeria problem in one or more of their plants. I love Blue...