Kickass Gets Storm Ready by Bill Stokes

Attribution: Mathias Krumbholz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

By Bill Stokes

Kickass, the doorstop dog, gets in extra napping this morning of June 10, 2026 as the keeper and Phyllis batten down the hatches in preparation for the violent weather predicted over the next two days.

“Preparation” for them has limited application in their multi-storied living facility where their personal contribution to the physical well-being of things is to look out the window and watch the service crews. Even the garbage containers are safely inside, down in the basement parking area as cozy as garbage cans and dumpsters ever get.

If the ominous weather warnings play out as predicted, nice things will get smashed up and people will be injured and possibly even killed in a wild random weather selection process that spares no one.

So now in the hours before the storm, those who live with their necessary bad weather preparations contracted out, have nothing to do but gaze out the window and remember things like the team of horses trotting toward the barn with a load of hay just ahead of a summer boomer, or the big tree that fell on the neighbor’s house.

Both the keeper and Phyllis have been caught out in stormy weather and they will rehash some of those experiences now from the safety of their recliners as the clouds move in.