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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Kickass and the Orchid

Attribution: WFinch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are struggling with the emotional outfall of having house-sat for neighbor Marsha and Jack’s orchid plant while they were off on a west coast visit. Simple instructions were to give the orchid one ice cube …
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Kickass and Goats

Attribution: Photo by Nataliya Melnychuk on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not much help to the keeper as he investigates what is apparently a genetic quirk on his father’s side of the family that manifests itself in a fondness for goats.  As a boy growing up out on the North Dakota prairie the keeper’s …
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Kickass and Lost Hour

Attribution: US Government, resolution enhancement by user JRaber, Cropped by user Marketdiamond, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, on the trail of a missing hour, turns it over to the keeper and Phyllis: The Missing Hour        “We lost an hour, we know not where, But we know this, it …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Dead Friend Zoe

Attribution: Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper and Phyllis in their updating of the list of political absurdities that define life as a “Badger.”  Add to the long-standing MINORITY REPRESENTATION in the legislature, the fact that Wisconsin is one of only two states where the tax structure makes it …
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Kickass and “My Dead Friend Zoe”

Attribution: Photo by Chris Murray on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, does not do movies, which he regrets after listening to the keeper and Phyllis rave about the recently released “My Dead Friend Zoe” which was created, written and produced by the keeper’s grandnephew Kyle Hausman Stokes and is currently in local theaters. It is …
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