PawPaw's House

I spend time on Facebook keeping up with friends and family.   Every Fast Draw club I know has a Facebook page, where we share events, and  ...

Allen asks in comment: Are you required to GFCI all the outlet circuits?  Yep!  I have one of those installed in the first outlet of ever...

My boys showed up this morning to help finish the electrical installation, so that we can get it inspected.  My second son went through an i...

I have been on a ladder all day long, installing the electrical service for the air conditioners and running a switch lead for the lights.  ...

It looks like we're going to have a cold snap early next week to usher it 2018.  So be it.  I've lived through cold snaps before.  I...

This: Really!  That's completely and utterly racist.  Frankly, I'm tied of being blamed for someone else's problems.  For m...

When I was growing up, I was taught to exceed the standards, to not settle for being average . Based on per capita consumption from alcoho...

I've been pulling wire all day.  Well, not exactly, I've been installing MC 12-2 (Some call it BX).  It's a metal-clad wire suit...

When the weather is cloudy and the air is cold ad the clouds are threatening rain, Chicken Noodle Soup is one of my go-to comfort foods.  Yo...

I'm sure that you've all read, by now, the unsettling tale o f Rep Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who makes life hell for flight crews. ...

It seems that coyotes are colonizing large population centers.  This, from the New York Times . COLUMBUS, Ohio — Dennis Murphy sniffed th...

I bought materials this morning and worked int he shop this afternoon.    It doesn't look like much, but it's an 1/8 steel cable, mo...

PawPaw and Belle, having coffee on a quiet Christmas morning.  It has long been our habit to celebrate with the kids and grandkids on Christ...

A little at a time, we're moving forward This weekend, weather head, mast, meter pan, and inside breaker box installed.  Everything pr...

Great speech by Nikki Haley, our UN Ambassador earlier this week.  The United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution that opposes th...

So, evidently, some fraternity had a party and later the air tested positive for alcohol . Indoor air at a Maryland frat house tested po...

No not the old joke about the unfortunate Native American boy. While the kids are on break, we're baby-sitting two dogs.  That...

It looks like the gun-control background check system that the Feds rely on has taken a dump . WBRZ reports that “the FBI acknowledged an ...

I am reminded that I have completed another trip around the sun. I"m too busy to worry about that now. 

It seems that some elected yahoo in Chicago wants to call in UN Peacekeeping troops to quell what he calls the "quiet genocide" in...