NOAA Photo Library, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper in revising the system for not only surviving yet one more gray, middle-of-the-winter day, but actually deriving some pleasure from it. Heretofore, the keeper’s plan recommended prolonged napping, staying inside the house, warm soup, an …
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Kickass and High School Students
Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper each weekday morning in watching the kids stroll across the parking lot on their way over to Memorial High School. They seem taller and more purposeful than the high school crowd the keeper remembers being a part …
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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 Watches The Sting
Attribution: English: Illustrator unknown; presumably a work-for-hire for distributor Universal Pictures., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis in watching the old movie “The Sting,” and shared their conclusion that it was a good thing to do: great acting by old favorites, remembering Paul Newman …
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Kickass and Noisy Winter Guys
Jeroen Kransen, Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in a salute to: “The Noisy Guys of Winter” Into the snowy white silence Come the noisy guys of winter. Blinking yellow trucks scraping loud, Parking lot tractors pinging in reverse. Recycle rigs banging bins and doors. …
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Kickass and Phyllis’ New Desk
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in congratulating Phyllis on the occasion of her “new” desk, which compliments her promotion to Supreme Commander of all matters having to do with the keeper’s life, including the current book project of “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to trees,” that looks at the …
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Kickass and the Nothing Post
darwin Bell from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has nothing to say this morning, and so having said it, he ends this post and goes out for breakfast with Phyllis. Later they plan to drop over to the Cider Farm Eatery …
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Kickass and Use of Gravity
English: Staff Sgt. Clinton Firstbrook, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aids the keeper in spreading the word that, contrary to the cliché that gravity is not a friend to the keeper’s age group, the opposite is true: it is very friendly if used properly. Now with the return …
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Kickass and Secret Info
United States Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in clearing up the matter of possibly having classified documents in his files. At some point during his three-year Army stint in Infantry intelligence units, 70 or so years ago, the Army deemed it necessary to clear …
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Kickass and January Rain
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper sipping from his first cup of coffee on a rainy January morning, sniffing with the dregs of a stubborn cold, but generally feeling smug about his good fortune in having accidentally migrated far enough south from his northern Wisconsin birthplace to …
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Kickass and MLK Bob Shephard
John Brighenti from Rockville, MD, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper on this MLK weekend in the traditional salute to the memory of the keeper’s old Army friend Bob Shephard, from the wintery command integration on a Korean hill side to the life-long sharing …
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Kickass and Learning the Beagle Way
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, explains on behalf of the keeper that the daily post has been delayed as both Kickass and the keeper get personal instruction from a visiting beagle named Ava on how to spend the entire day napping on the softest surfaces available. Ava, who is …
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