Category:Holidays

Attribution: Patrick Fitzgerald from Atlanta, GA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will assist the keeper with his burden on this Thanksgiving Day of being thankful for what you’ve got, which in the keeper’s case is the flu. In keeping with their policy of complete sharing, Phyllis passed …
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Attribution: LuigiGT12, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper cannot allow the Halloween of 2023 to pass without recalling once again the great multi city “trick” of moving a boxcar in Cameron to block off Highway 8, the major east-west route across northern Wisconsin. Just how …
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Attribution: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s rules of conduct for having a 92nd birthday:          *Do not start any fights of a physical nature.          *Respect your elders.          *If you think you have acquired any wisdom, volunteer for a clinical trial to detect “sawdust in the …
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Attribution: Alasdair, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the keeper and Phyllis including in their central sand lake, week-long runaway, a sitting-around-the-campfire session with Phyllis’s son Keven, Colleen, Gordan and Luka, during which the keeper was prompted to conclude that staring into campfire flames is one thing …
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Attribution: Marcin n® ☼, recreated from scratch by Quibik, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper on this 4th of July listening to the echoes of explosives out of Philadelphia as four people die in the 29th mass shooting of the year to bring the total US dead to 2,900 …
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Photo by Arthur Chauvineau on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will be joining the dogs under the porch or the bed or any other place that shields him from the inanity of 4th of July fireworks. From backyard boom freaks to soaring commercial rocket excesses, the keeper sees the use of explosives …
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Photo by Brittany Colette on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog and the keeper, on this 2023 Memorial Day, salutes all of those who dodged bullets in the cause of preserving respectability at home and abroad through the years.  As usual in the keeper’s experience he is moved to remember the two platoon members from Michigan …
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Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, compliments the keeper on his cheapness in contributing to Phyllis’s Mother’s Day by taking her to flowers instead of buying her a bouquet.  Meeting her family at the spectacular Trillium display at Wood County’s Bluff Park and finding Marsh Marigolds in a nearby ditch …
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