PawPaw's House

 In 2014 I put up a Martin house that my dad had on his place.  After he died in 2007, and Mom was making some changes on the family propert...

 Juvat asks if I could post my leftover turkey gumbo recipe.  Easy-peasy. My basic gumbo recipe is here .  We make a few small changes for t...

 Belle was watching the weather yesterday and concluded that we were going to have our first frost, so we moved her potted plants indoors. A...

 Baked ham, fried turkey, cornbread dressing, egg gray, cranberry sauce, corn casserole, candied yams,  green bean casserole, yeast rolls, p...

 Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a uniquely American holiday.  Belle and I are prepping for the big meal, at noon.  We're having ham and turke...

I am given to understand that while Kamala cools her jets in Hawaii, Failed VP Tim Walz is asking donors to help puck up the tab for vendors...

When I was a young'un, as a Boy Scout, learning how to read a map and use a compass, we had to learn about magnetic declination.  The co...

 The house that Belle and I call home was built in 2001.  Very few problems, but recently we noticed a problem with a switch that controls t...

 I went to the grocers this morning to pick up some stuff for Thanksgiving.  Like q turkey and a ham, and some other stuff that Belle thinks...

 President Trump is making his picks, and it seems that he picked Linda McMahon for Education secretary. Trump is not a big fan of the depar...

 We have this freezer in the garage, a stand-up freezer that I haven't opened in six months.  THis morning I opened it, to take stock, a...

 Did you hear about this?  It seems that a Norwegian fishing vessel accidentally fouled the screws of a US Submarine.  Yeah, really. Harald ...

 I see where Don Lemon, Stephen King and several other butt-hurt liberals are leaving the social media platform X.  Cool, they have caught u...

 I see an article where it seems that colleges are increasing counseling services because the students are threatening suicide due to the re...

 In 1973 I took my fist PT Test at Fort Knox, KY.  A trainee in E-13-4, I lost 40 pounds in basic training. In 1998, I took my final PT test...

 He's naming them quicker than I can keep track, but just about the time I heard the SecDef pick, I found this  comment. Thomas says: Pe...

 According to 270 to win , Republicans control 219 seats, Dems control 210, and 6 are undecided.  That gives the Republicans a slim majority...

 I heard something today and went to the Google to see if it was true. Joe Biden got just over 81 million votes in 2020.  Trump got a little...

 The eleventh day of the eleventh month, and we recall the Armistice that ended the Great War to end all wars. Today is Veterans Day.  You a...

 We have an atmospheric river overhead, dropping coious amounts of heavy rain on us. It's been raining like this for about four hours an...