Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in wishing a belated happy birthday to the keeper’s son Mike and reminding him once again that his birth was not a big enough deal to interfere with the keeper’s fishing. On the way home from the birthing hospital …
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Kickass and Founders Day
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, napped as the keeper and Phyllis joined a community room full of Vista West residents at a “Founders Day” dinner, a very nice white tablecloth, wine and rose affair put on by director Jeanne and her capable staff. It all required Phyllis to dress …
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Kickass Hands it Off
Attribution: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes and Bill Mullen Kickass and the keeper hand it off to old Tribune friend Pulitzer winner Bill Mullen for his response to yesterday’s Kickass post about Jim Lovell on his 96th birthday. Thanks, Bill. “And to think that Lovell grew up as a Wisconsin kid, …
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Kickass and Jim Lovell
Attribution: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper and Phyllis that the message for the day should come from astronaut Jim Lovell as he celebrates his 96th birthday with the following comment: “We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about …
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Kickass Remembers Jackrabbits
Attribution: Photo by Mike Lewinski on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in lamenting the disappearance of jackrabbits in Wisconsin. Nobody has seen one for years and DNR biologists say they are officially “extirpated.” In his boyhood Barron County days, the big white jackrabbits were like the royalty of winter, jumping up from …
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Kickass Hiding Under Bed
Attribution: Photo by kuaileqie RE on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, woke up to the dripping of the keeper’s poetry on a rainy Sunday: ‘If I had a Telsa I would sell it. “if I were a Repub you would smell it. “If the mad POTUS has his way And tells his lies with every …
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Kickass and Questions
Attribution: Photo by Ludovic Migneault on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to assist the keeper and Phyllis as they wake to yet another day of grappling with the profoundly absurd questions of the day: *How the hell did we give a narcissistic sub-par lying golfer the clubs to drive the entire world into …
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Kickass and Adjustments
Attribution: Gene Daniels , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not much help to the keeper as he grapples with changing eyesight conditions due to macular degeneration, which currently has him wearing an eye patch to deal with seeing double images. At this point in his nonagenarian existence, the …
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Kickass and the Deer
Attribution: Photo by Prazanthy Ramesh on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assist the keeper in celebrating the keeper’s uncanny foresight in buying a pair of snowshoes on the hottest day of this erratic season. It happened when Phyllis left the keeper unattended at St. Vinny’s and he spotted these beautiful Iverson snowshoes, brand new and …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Birthday
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in wishing Phyllis a very happy birthday and will be doing everything possible to correct the transposition of numbers that assigns Phyllis an inappropriate ridiculous age. Phyllis IS 58! Do not forget that and know that in her 58th year which happened …
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Kickass and Coffee Spill
Attribution: Fabrizio Van Marciano, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is not adverse to a bit of excitement to start off the day and such was provided when his alert level tanked as he sat in front of his computer with a cup of coffee …
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Kickass and Dream Job
Attribution: Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper in his disappointment over missing out on his dream job as advertised by a stable owner in Richford, WI, an area the keeper is very familiar with for its trout fishing and weekend escapades at his former weekend cabin. The …
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