Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in encouraging younger family members to use this blah time of the year to visit their elders, and to bring the dog along. Mike, Sarah and Jessie brought Boo–the command schnauzer, with them yesterday, and a very good time …
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Kickass and Grandchildren
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens to the keeper’s observation that while grandchildren do not stay cute and cuddly very long but instead become adults with all the baggage that goes with that, they still remain objects of love and descendants to be proud of. Meet Bud and Beau, …
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Kickass and Tying Shoes With Mom
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has been of little help to the keeper in explaining the mental quirk whereby he–the keeper, thinks of his mother every morning when he ties his shoes, obviously because she is the one who taught him how to do it many decades ago. His …
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Kickass and Brother Orville
DVIDSHUB, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens up as the keeper reports on a visit with his brother Orville during which the accuracy of childhood stories was challenged for both of them. It has, after all, been more than 80 years. One constant is the adjustments that life demands, …
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Kickass and Young Storytellers
Attribution: קלאופטרה, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that while the keeper was a professional storyteller for decades, he found himself at a disadvantage recently in a storytelling session with Tyler and Trevor, a couple of very young great grandsons. It was one of those rare and wonderful occasions …
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Kickass and Youthful Sound
See page for author, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on a belated clan Christmas gathering focused around Mike’s chili and Phyllis fruitcake during which the Clan dog Boo made an authoritative territorial statement and a bevy of young cousins shook Vista West out of its vintage-age slumber with …
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Kickass and Country Copy
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that in the manner of country-copy reporting there would be the following item: “Mr. and Mrs. William Stokes enjoyed dinner Thursday at the home of Mr. Stokes’s son Michael in Sac Prairie. A delicious sauerkraut, biscuit sausage dish was served, after which Michael …
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Kickass and Phyllis Remission
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in celebrating a pre-Thanksgiving checkup visit Monday with Dr. Rose at the UW Carbone Cancer Center with continuation of the “REMISSION” report for Phyllis. So what else matters? Eat lots of turkey and have a great day! See more …
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Kickass and Old Siblings
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, shares the residual pleasure of a recent meeting of the keeper’s siblings and others in a display of defying the odds and getting old, really old in the keeper’s case. Hosted by niece Elizabeth and Huck, the event brought the keeper, his sister Norma …
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Kickass and Mom’s Pants Alterations
Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, stays out of the way as the keeper stumbles around the Vista West woodworking shop in the process of making shelves to hold some of the treasures from his lengthy past, which, in …
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Kickass and Alexis as Goalie
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in urging women to take over the world from the fumbling, failing men, and is encouraged in that regard by the example of Phyllis’s granddaughter Alexis, who is a member of the Marshfield Fire Department and does a lot of ambulance …
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Kickass and Phyllis Family
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, fresh from helping Phyllis host her family at a pre-holiday get together, is impressed anew at what it means to be a member of a loving, good-humored family whose members deeply care about each other and joy in giving the united finger to an …
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