PawPaw's House

Heh!  The Fat Electrician did tankers.  I had forgotten that we called lesser mortals, "crunchies". I was around for the transitio...

It looks like my younger son Joey got in on his brother's action on the YouTube channel.  He lives in northern New Mexico, where he live...

 I got my electric bill for August.  It's not the highest I've seen, but it is up there. We are coming out of the hottest August I c...

 So, school is back in session and maybe we should talk about this.  It is our duty to educate our kids.  In a lot of places, this takes the...

Ain't this the truth?  Several months ago I was at an event, and helping a lady carry food into the venue.  I had a hot, smoked turkey o...

 The picture says it all.  She is coming in as a major hurricane and is set to impact a whole lot of prople over the next couple of days. Y...

 Monday began on an auspicious note.  I awoke at 4:30 like a tree full of hoot owls.  Got up and made coffee.  Had a doctors appointment for...

At lunch today, my son turned me on to this guy's channel.  The tale of the William D Porter, the unluckiest destroyer in the US Navy.  ...

 Like many of you, I watched in horror as the fires on Maui broke out, killing hundreds. Then I watched in disgust as the developers came in...

 I don't know if y'all noticed, but President Trump was arrested last week.  It was a pro forma booking, just a matter of perfecting...

 In the spring of '05 we fenced the back yard as phase 1 of a long project to make the place more comfortable. We live on a corner lot, ...

 It seems that an Embraer 135 aircraft fell out of the sky over Russia yesterday. It belonged to the Wagner group and all crew and passenger...

My boys are giving away a vehicle.  It's something that the Lord put on them, so they are trying to extend the blessings.  Find a vehicl...

 I was watching the news this morning, and I heard someone in the bar business complaining about the Gen Z crowd.  It seems that they close ...

This morning, I moved tuff away from the wall in the shop so that I could get to the three A/C units hanging in the wall.  Early in the seas...

In the summer of 1979 I bought a front-stuffer to take advantage of Louisiana's muzzleloading season for deer.  We got an extra week at ...

 I met this morning with the head of the Pineville, LA Parks Dept. regarding my public records request.  He started the meeting by apologizi...

 Our local meteorologist, Nick Mikulas says that yesterday we may have set a heat record locally.  The temp gage at the airport recorded 109...

 In the post below, about Hurricane Hillary, George commented that NOAA keeps maps of hurricane tracks and that it is searchable. I didn...

 It seems that Hurricane Hillary is set to make landfall in Mexico as a hurricane, then slip into California as a tropical storm.  Accordin...