Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, as one who misses his littermates, envied the keeper as he and Phyllis checked in with the keeper’s “little” brother Orville with lunch at Elizabeth and Hucks, Orv’s daughter and son-in-law. Reminiscence ran as deep as it gets, and just when an older brother’s …
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Kickass Works with Granddaughter
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that he is a “lucky dog” to be launching another project with granddaughter Sarah in which they explore the world of podcasts. Once a long time ago the two of them, with other family members’ help, wrote and produced “Naked …
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Kickass and the Family at the River
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, stayed on door duty as the keeper and Phyllis joined some of the keeper’s crew to send Rick and Becky from their riverside summer digs back to Colorado and their prairie dog battle. An afternoon rain shower briefly threatened to join the festivities but …
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Kickass and Cooking a Shore Lunch
Attribution: Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the colorful air wafting down from Canada reminds the keeper of one of his more embarrassing–nay, “humiliating” moments, when on a Canadian fishing trip, he took it upon himself to cook the fish shore lunch for his father, Uncle Duffy and their …
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Kickass and Mom’s Coughing Genes
Attribution: Zephyris at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper having the low class to be critical of his mother for passing on to him a cough-trigger mechanism that has him barking “treed” until he is unfit company at weddings and funerals unless the ceremony …
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Kickass and Back to the Water
Photo by Bill Stokes Photo by Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, observed the 4th of July action from under the bed as the keeper and Phyllis joined the multitudes in a symbolic return to the water from whence their species came. That water attraction, in its identity as a living and recreational cultural prize, has …
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Kickass and Libraries
Attribution: Photo by Pauline Loroy on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper wallowing one more time in the wonderful world of librarians as word comes that grandson Bud is in the librarian ranks with an official certifying document that says as much as he works at his library job in the Fox River …
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Kickass and Father’s Day
Attribution: Photo by Steve DiMatteo on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes on a few Father’s Day words to the keeper and all human fathers: “You know how you qualified for the “father” title with all of its perks and pleasures, and how you were not really tallying such things up at that precise moment. …
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Kickass and Generational Communication
Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on a meeting of the keeper’s granddaughter Sarah, with Phyllis and the keeper to brainstorm how to improve communication between the generations. After the obvious agreement that banning all phone use unless you are alone, the discussion went in a number of …
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Kickass and Grandpa’s Long Underwear
Attribution: Photo by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper making the switch from winter to summer shirts, which means short sleeves and bare arms for the next four months or so. The move equates to the critters shedding their winter coats and the birds showing …
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Kickass and Old Friend Roger
Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper received a 95th birthday notice from OLD friend Roger Locke, a fellow member of the Barron WI. High School class of 1949. The class was close to 100 in 1949 and may now be represented only by Roger and the …
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Kickass and Sarah’s Morels
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper has never been on the first team of morel mushroom hunters, and now in his retirement status he hears the reports from granddaughter Sarah that this would not be a good year to try to come out of retirement. Sarah, who …
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