Attribution: Per A.J. Andersson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as he tries to remain relevant when faced with such questions as the following: *Does Boebert’s statement that she will be checking party affiliations of future dates mean that it is hard to keep your …
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Kickass and Wolf In Grandma Wisconsin’s Bed
Attribution: Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 – 1935), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in noting that it would not be fair to wolves to use them as symbols to represent the devious Vos Repub gang that has been occupying Grandma Wisconsin’s gerrymandered political bed …
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Kickass and Grandkids
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, stayed home with Phyllis when the keeper drove across town to watch grandson Beau perform lumber making miracles with his portable sawmill. It was most impressive—Beau manipulating misshapen ash logs into usable planks and boards with deft touches of complicated controls. It is agreed …
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Kickass and the Hollyhocks
Attribution: Photo by Slawek K on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps as the keeper suffers a Saturday reminiscence attack: Hollyhock Ladies, where did you go From all the places you used to grow Those tall, old flowers so big and bold? Yours came from Grandma’s, we were told. You stood beside them tall and …
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Kickass Sells Books
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis took their book-show to the Middleton Senior Center Thursday where the keeper had a nice visit with a modest assembly of those in his age group, telling them of some of his column-writing adventures in “Treeson: an APOLOGIA …
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Kickass and Telling Time
Attribution: Photo by Sonja Langford on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, undergoing a routine “insurance” exam was asked, among other things, to draw a clock face showing the time at 8:20. The resulting diagram was satisfactory to examiner Rich, though he remarked that the big hand would have traveled off 8 and …
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Kickass and Lifetime of Cars
Attribution: Patrick from Merrimack, NH, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s lifelong relationship with cars, beginning back when he talked his father into hooking up the horses and pulling home a Model T pickup that had been rusting away behind a neighbor’s shed. His …
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Kickass and Remembering or Forgetting
Attribution: Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper has attained that age that by some standards makes him too old to vote, a nuisance on the roadways, cause for elevator delay, deaf to commands to “get out of the way” and unable to sort outrageous lies from the …
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Kickass and 92nd Birthday
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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Kickass and Conception Day
Attribution: http://www.pdimages.com/web9.htm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper, gets ready for an age milestone, he notes that nobody’s birthday is possible without their having been a conception day nine months previously. Just why conception day is not celebrated, and is even pretty much ignored, …
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Kickass and Reprimanding Republicans
Attribution: Channel 3000, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis and their ilk, recognizing that they are living in a gerrymandered state litterbox of the Repub’s design that denies them representative government, hereby serve notice that if the Voss Repub dictator group moves ahead …
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Kickass and Positive Pain
Attribution: Photo by Henry Fraczek on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the results from the keeper’s right shoulder MRI showed, in Dr. Warbasse’s assessment, that there are rips in his rotator cuff and frayed muscles and the joint is generally a mess, and it is unusual that the keeper is not writhing in …
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