Attribution: National Archives and Records Administration , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, accompanies the keeper on a memory jaunt back to recall one of his wonderful uncles and the magic of the threshing crew. The tradition of farm women preparing noontime feasts for the neighboring farmers who had assembled …
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Kickass and Visiting Granddaughters
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, labels the keeper a “lucky dog” in that he was on hand when Phyllis’s granddaughters–Alexis and Taylor paid her an overnight visit. Alexis brought along her dog Kai so the keeper would have a conversation companion as Phyllis and Alexis and Taylor reminisced about …
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Kickass and UFOs
Attribution:derivative work: thumperward (talk) File:Supposed UFO, Passaic, New Jersey.jpg: –, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in asking what it says about the state of bipartisanship when both Dems and Repubs cooperated in holding a recent hearing on whether or not entities from outer space are …
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Kickass and No Air Conditioning
Attribution: Reinhold Möller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in welcoming this hot, hot day of July 27, 2023, and allows him to reminisce about a childhood when the only air conditioning was riding in the back seat of a Model A Ford going 45 mph …
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Kickass and Road Trip Learning
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s recent road trip, though it did not accomplish its original mission of meeting up with any bear, wolves hounds or hounders, was not without discovery, in part by learning of the existence of The Highground Veterans Park west of Neillsville. …
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Kickass and Mike Adventure: Part 2
kikiciao, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the latest expedition involving the keeper and his son Mike will not rank up there with their attempt some years ago to float rivers down to New Orleans and only getting as far as Spring Green, but there is a …
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Kickass and Mike Adventure
Attributon: David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that Phyllis wisely chooses to stay home, as the keeper and his son Mike head north with a number of missions on their itinerary: *Find out just what it is that motivates grown men …
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Kickass and Pete’s Hamburgers
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, chose to stay home and nap as the keeper drove Phyllis to Prairie du Chien to introduce her to Pete’s juicy, onion-drenched hamburgers, a Wisconsin tradition since 1909 which is several years before the keeper’s birth. Operated by the Gokey family, the summer-only stand …
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Kickass and Grandfather Embarrassment
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in sending a message to his grandsons in the mode of the one that JFK’s grandson recently sent in which he said his grandfather was an embarrassment due in part for spreading utterly harmful bull—-. So listen up here Nick and …
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Kickass and Walking on the Moon
Attribution: Illustration by w:en:William Wallace Denslow, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that it has been 54 years since Neal Armstrong walked in the moon, one of those where-was-I-at-the-time remembering events: Phyllis was raising kids and working in a Wisconsin Rapids bank. The keeper was …
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Kickass and Garden Help
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is only stand-by assistance in Phyllis’s Vista West gardening efforts, but obviously should have been more than that as Phyllis apparently pulled a muscle lifting a heavy bucket in watering her tomatoes. This is an “I-can-do-it-myself” woman only several weeks …
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Kickass and Shirt Price Tag
Attribution: ΙΣΧΣΝΙΚΑ-888, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has provided medical specialists with a variety of challenging issues over his many years and continued the policy recently when a dermatologist doing a biopsy on a suspect skin eruption on his back, also had the experience …
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