PawPaw's House

We're home, safely, after five days of travel.  PawPaw will be getting back into his routine. It was great, seeing the Missouri family...

About an hour east of Kansas City, likes the sleepy little tow of Emma, MO.  We're visiting some of Belle's family (and by extension...

After church yesterday, we ate lunch and the boys and I went out to the destruction zone to try tom make the final push on the plumbing.  It...

Elder son came over today, along with son-in-;aw/  They gave me yeoman's service today for a solid eight hours.  If you asked them, they...

It's Happy Hour on Friday afternoon, and I"v been in the vodka lately.  Belle went to the grocers earlier today and showed up at th...

It's time for the project to get back in the dirt.  I started in the dirt back last October, with the dirt work for the foundation.  Now...

Black bears are native to Louisiana, but they've been on the endangered list for quite some time.  I've known that there are bears, ...

One of the things I don't do well, is paint.  I'm a three-coat painter.  One on the wall, one on me, one on the floor.  Belle has le...

The project continues, with a hard deadline of July 14th.  It's coming along, according to plan.  Today, I spent the day doing inside pl...

I've been working in the shop all day, and decided to come i and watch mindless YouTuve videos. Damn!  It's dusty in here.  I ma...

Belle wanted the walls to me made of OSB.  We're going for a rustic look, and she decided that the most economical way to get that look ...

These days, we seem to live by our numbers.  In my case, the health numbers.  Blood numbers, A1C, triglycerides, those sort of numbers. Th...

Great video of a 95 year old veteran flying a restored C-47, just like the one he flew into Normandy on June 6, 1944. He still flies smo...

Tabasco Sauce is a staple on our table.  It's one of several we enjoy with different dishes.  Today, for example, Belle is cooking pork ...

The Cross Branded Pacemakers held their regular meeting today.  There were not enough people to hold a match.   Two of our shooters were in ...

As well he should be.  Comey is ashamed, disgusted, horrified.  We feel the same way, Jim.  Your performance as FBI chief made the whole nat...

Today, while I was at Homey Depot, looking for stuff, I stopped i the lubber aisle. They're awash in these darned tings.  But, some...

She's a good-looking gal, no doubt about that.

Several of you have commented on the pink studs that we use here in Louisiana as framing lumber.    I've seen these things as long as I ...

Sometimes projects take a lot of time in planning and you really don't see it come together for a while.  Such is this bathroom/outdoor ...