Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis are freshly returned from a weekend get-together with Phyllis’s family at a weekend rental on the shore of Lake Sinissippi near Hustisford where good food was feast-like, the conversation was punctuated by frequent laughter and a good time was had by all.
Like most families, Phyllis’s comes with all kinds of characters with their own takes on absolutely everything, which made for lively repast for everyone, including the keeper who might have had the class, as a relative Phyllis clan newcomer, to keep his mouth shut.
Are you kidding! Since when did the keeper ever listen when he could be talking?
He appreciates the fact that while Phyllis’s family, already obviously trended toward talkers over listeners, accepted him as yet one more talker.
It is the American way.
