Attribution: Don O’Brien from Piketon, Ohio, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, accompanies the keeper as he walks the mile and a half to the country school. Up Swans hill and past the fields where big-eared jackrabbits sometimes leaped from hiding and loped off like dancers. Feeling …
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Kickass and Windshield Survey
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are on deck this post Labor Day weekend with the results of a state-of-the-state report based on an extensive central Wisconsin windshield survey. *Rain needed–Corn and bean fields showing distress with pointed and discolored leaves. *Trees peaking out …
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Kickass Returns to the Water
Attribution: Jules Verne Times Two, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, shares the keeper’s observation that the evidence that we all once crawled up out of the water and are anxious to get back there was on full display at Tim and Cyndy’s Lake Wisconsin Cottage and thousands of …
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Kickass Greets September 1st, 2024
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper and Phyllis in presenting the start of Sept. 1, 2024 as viewed over Wisconsin’s Capitol. It shows promise of being yet another great day. Aren’t they all! Photo by Bill Stokes See more at… The Bill Stokes Author Page
Kickass and Corporate Labor Day
Attribution: Richard Hurd from Leland, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis wonder on this Labor Day weekend how corporations, having been judged by the Supine Court to be “people” for political purposes, will be celebrating? Will the corporations gather their loved ones …
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Kickass and Ingle with One Arm
Attribution: Gail Leenstra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in acknowledging the Paralympic Games now underway in Paris, with remembering life- long friend Ingle who lost an arm as a result of a boyhood accident. As a fishing/golfing companion Ingle bested the keeper on a regular …
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Kickass and Life-Saving Bra
Attribution: Saigon Soul, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, prompted by another writer’s account of a dangerously stupid swimming decision, vividly remembers after all this time the night he jumped into the closed and dark Barron swimming pool with friends, apparently forgetting that as a …
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Kickass and Lost Watch
Attribution: Photo by Patrick Hawlik on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that as the keeper works at doing his part on the exciting world stage he is often distracted by personal issues that tend to take precedent and detract from his otherwise valuable cultural contributions. Most recently the keeper lost his watch, and though …
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Kickass and the Crane Hunt
Attribution: Kyletracysrs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says the keeper notes yet another push for a Wisconsin hunting season on sandhill cranes. As reported by Henry Redman in the “Wisconsin Examiner” the crane hunt is being touted as relief for farmers who claim losses of $900,000 from cranes …
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Kickass and the Heatwave
Attribution: Geralt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in preparing for the dangerous heat wave about to descend on the Midwest, their main strategy being the “Stationary Excessive Hydration Exercise Program”—SEHEP, whereby they occupy recliners in air conditioned quarters while taking in large amounts of liquid …
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Kickass and Sarah Visit
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis were a launch pad for the keeper’s granddaughter Sarah as she returned to her California digs and husband Jessie after a summer’s visit, mostly with her dad Mike on the Wisconsin River at Sauk. It was wonderful to …
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Kickass and Sleep Deprivation
Attributon: SecretName101, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s observation that within his and Phyllis’s time zone and age group there is serious fallout from three days of sleep deprivation caused by the DNC Chicago celebration. To hear the major speakers of the evening, it was necessary …
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