PawPaw's House

It seems that three hospitals in Central Louisiana are filing for bankruptcy.  The company that owns Oakdale Community Hospital, Winn Par...

I went out to my wax bullet range this afternoon, to continue my frustration with the long gun.   Getting that long barrel out of the holste...

I see in the local fish-wrapper that the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is seeking to hire some new Agents.  We called the...

It's time for new spectacles, and PawPaw has an appointment with the eyeglass doctor in a couple of hours.  It's been too long, and ...

It was a basic Monday, with a to-do list, which I accomplished early.  Laundry, check.  Errands, check.  Pool maintenance, check.  Everyday ...

We took another step on the Town Folk Alley trailer this week.  This is going to be a portable range for wax bullet work, to introduce peopl...

It's been a while since I posted a Sunday Dawg, but the dog is doing well, getting older, a little slower, and he's still deathly af...

It's been raining for the past two days, and the weather-weenies tell us that another drenching is on the way.  So be it.  The Thorn Val...

It seems that yesterday was National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and no one told the J-frame that rides every day in my pocket.  Of course, ...

Surfing around yesterday, I came to a piece in the New York Times , recommending that all guns in the US become NFA items.  Strict registrat...

Uberti has come out with an "improvement" that they're touting on all the social media.  A "floating firing pin" tha...

Some of you might recall that last year, shortly before getting in to Cowboy Fast Draw, I bought a Savage Scout rifle .  Old readers will kn...

We lost a brother yesterday.  Evidently, Deputy Robert Johnson collapsed after roll call and died.  They suspect a heart attack. I am p...

I was clicking around the Book of Face ad came to this little video by Pantaeo Productions , where Dave Spaulding talks about the current st...

Officially the marching song of the 7th US Cavalry, it's been adopted by the whole branch as our theme song.  Whether Armored Cav or Air...

Very few people could tell a vignette with fewer words than Jeff Cooper.  In evidence: Goblin shows up late at hamburger dispensary behavi...

This weekend, while the kids were over, I got to know Francis, the One Eyed Mountain Dog. A female mutt, brindled, with overtones f som...

Every once in a while, I get hungry for a fish fry, and in my family a fish fry is a social event, so I gathered the fish and the ingredient...

I'm getting in the mood, I really am, but I'm a little tired and a little busy, and after the family gathering tomorrow, I should ha...

My son took up leather working several years ago, and the quality of his work is increasing by leaps and bounds.  He presented me with a new...