Attribution: Photo by Luigi Boccardo on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, turns the morning over to the keeper to review an incident of his boyhood when he and his family shared life with a variety of animals on a small dairy farm in northwest Wisconsin. That sharing went over the top the time the keeper …
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Category:Memories
Kickass and Hair
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis as they discuss “hair,” the occasion being Phyllis’s “perm” that makes her look like a high school girl. Hair is one of those life-long issues that leans heavily on a genetic base and the vagaries of “dumb luck.” The keeper’s …
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Kickass Goes to High School
Attribution: Nipponeselover, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper taking morning pleasure in watching the students stride across the parking lot on their way to Memorial High school over across Gammon Road. Tall, long-legged all with backpacks, the students of all shapes take the keeper back to …
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Kickass and Baby Book
Attribution: Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper as a first grandchild on his mother’s side relished all the perks that go with “first-grandchild” identity which included, back in the dark ages when he was born, a young mother keeping a detailed personal record of her newborn …
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Kickass and School Walk
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that during a recent visit to youthful haunts the keeper, retraced the mile and a half of country roads that he and his sister and brother walked to the one-room country school up in Barron County. The retracing was done by car in …
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Kickass and Cousins
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper immersed in cousin matters as a result of a recent meeting with cousins Pat and Barbara and Ron, and then remembering what an incredible adventurous pleasure it was to have grown up with a raft of cousins almost within shouting distance. …
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Kickass Relates to Water
Attribution: Video by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis spend considerable time and energy relating to the land areas of their past while giving the waters–creeks, lakes and rivers—only passing mention. Such was the case with a recent visit to the keeper’s boyhood haunts when water …
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Kickass and Cows Over Turkeys
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, by enlisting in the Army and leaving Barron County haunts as a teenager, missed out on the revolution of county agricultural from cows to turkeys, and he is happy about that. A recent visit showed vast former fields and pastures …
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Kickass and More Going Home Again
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper continuing to wallow in the “going home” experience of revisiting his boyhood haunts in Wisconsin’s Barron County, of standing in the exact spots where he experienced the wonderful ups and downs of pre-fledging days—getting bucked off his pony, cranking at a …
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Kickass Makes It Home Again
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, with the kind help of wife Phyllis, son Mike and granddaughter Sarah, has proven that you can go home again despite what Wolfe wrote, and you can meet up with cousins Pat and Ron and Barbara for a catch-up on …
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Kickass as a Hogan’s Hero
Attribution: CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper waking up this morning remembering the day he shot one of Mrs. Hogan’s chickens. Walking past the Hogan farm on returning from the squirrel woods with no squirrels, Mrs. Hogan hailed the teenage keeper and asked him …
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Remembering D-Day
Attribution: SHAEF [Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces] Public Relations Division., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons A heartfelt thank you to those who risked–and gave–their lives in order to rid the world of fascism. Their courage should stand as an example to all of us. From the Pen in Hand Blog