Category:Family

Kickass and Buying a House

Posted on October 25, 2026Updated on October 25, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Attribution: Gogerr, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the most irritating of the keeper’s recent “Back in my day” stories may be the one of his having once bought a new four-bedroom house on Madison’s west side for $25,000. The reaction of listeners to the …
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Kickass and Visitors from Canada

Posted on October 16, 2026Updated on October 16, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes, along with the keeper and Phyllis, that visitors from Canada bring reassurance that all is not lost, despite the inane babbling of the pitiful POTUS. Phyllis’s sister Joan and her husband Bill are on their way back to their Saskatchewan home after a …
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Kickass Invades Canada

Posted on October 9, 2026Updated on October 9, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass, Travel

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper offering to advise the POTUS on Canada-US relations, having once a long time ago mounted an invasion of Canada with a force of young family members armed with boundless youthful curiosity and zestful love for life that included all of Canada …
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Kickass and Birthday Model T

Posted on September 25, 2026Updated on September 25, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Holidays, Humor, Kickass

Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s delight with a belated birthday present from Phyllis’s son Kevin in the form of a 3-hour tour on central Wisconsin’s beautiful back roads in a Model-T Ford that was five years older than the keeper, making it close to 100. …
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Kickass and THE Birthday Party

Posted on September 13, 2026Updated on September 13, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Aging, Family, Humor, Kickass

Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper surviving the assembly of his clan to mark his 95th birthday. By all measures it was a rousing success and the keeper thanks all those who had a role in it. And that is it for Kickass today as he tiptoes …
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Kickass and Old Age Demonstrations

Posted on September 12, 2026Updated on September 12, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Aging, Family, Humor, Kickass

Attribution: NASA/Carla Thomas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be attending the family gathering today to mark the keeper’s 95th birthday, and suggests that maybe too much is being made of one number in a series that the keeper plans to keep going until decency returns to the White …
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Kickass and Moon Over Mazo

Posted on August 28, 2026Updated on August 28, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass

Photo provided by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis, noting the recent Sturgeon Moon machinations, thank the keeper’s grandson Andy for sending along a photo by “Lindsey’s cousin” of the moon’s performance over the Mazomanie house the keeper and his family members built 25 years ago and …
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Kickass Visits Kid Brother

Posted on August 15, 2026Updated on August 15, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass

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

Posted on August 10, 2026Updated on August 10, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass

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

Posted on August 8, 2026Updated on August 8, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass, Wisconsin

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

Posted on July 21, 2026Updated on July 21, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass, Memories

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

Posted on July 20, 2026Updated on July 20, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Health, Humor, Kickass

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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