Attribution: U.S. Army photo by Davide Dalla Massara, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass the doorstop dog, reports that as part of marking the keepers 94th birthday special, there will be a blood red eclipse of the moon tonight which was arranged by family members after they threw the keeper a fantastic birthday …
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Kickass and Back to School
Attribution: Photo by Deleece Cook on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis have respective mobs of wonderful, flawless, perfect grandchildren and great grandchildren scattered across the country and currently marching proudly in the back-to-school parade; and they would like them all to know how great it is to see their …
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Kickass and Cousins
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper immersed in cousin matters as a result of a recent meeting with cousins Pat and Barbara and Ron, and then remembering what an incredible adventurous pleasure it was to have grown up with a raft of cousins almost within shouting distance. …
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Kickass and Sarah’s Fungi
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Kickass and Recliner Experience
Attribution: DelmerViramontes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis having weathered out of a drive to the middle of the state Saturday found themselves with a daylong opportunity to stay off the stormy roads and do something worthwhile. Phyllis did some organizational work with members …
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Kickass and Uncle Ralph
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Kickass and Shot in the Eye
Attribution: Rhcastilhos. And Jmarchn., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper starting the day with the VA eye clinic deciding whether or not he needs yet another shot in the eye to protect him from the advance of the macular degeneration that was so generously handed off …
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Kickass and Screens
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop, advises the keeper and Phyllis that their constant company of senior citizens can be enriched by an occasional exposure to members of a different age group as represented by the recent visit of Maverick and Holden who demonstrated how the meaning of life is in …
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Kickass and Visit of Boo
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, gives the floor to the keeper and Phyllis to pass on the verity that sandwiches climb into a rarefied culinary class when they are delivered and prepared by a son and granddaughter—Mike and Sarah who also brought along Boo the aging little schnauzer who …
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Kickass and Model T Touring
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper unhappy that he is not up in northern Wisconsin riding around the north woods in a Model T Ford with Phyllis’s son Kevin and his wife Colleen at the annual week-long “Doughty” summer Model T tour originated many years ago by …
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Kickass and the River
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis joining part of the clan for a first-sweetcorn river-side feast and learning yet another method of communing with the great river as it heads south, having completed its 23-dam work in Wisconsin. That new method is to sit in a …
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Kickass and the Family Tree
Attribution: Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis listening with interest to comments from the keeper’s granddaughter Sarah regarding some of her casual climbing around in her family tree. The branches on her late mother Dora’s side— “Durst” show an illustrious history …
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