Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper sipping from his first cup of coffee on a rainy January morning, sniffing with the dregs of a stubborn cold, but generally feeling smug about his good fortune in having accidentally migrated far enough south from his northern Wisconsin birthplace to …
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Kickass and the Walk to School
Photo by Sara Codair on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper braves the risk of ridicule in bringing up the FACT that he and his sister and brother walked a mile and a half on a country road to a one-room country school, even on mornings like this one when they were wrapped in coats …
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Kickass and Staying Inside
NOAA Photo Library, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in participating in that major Wisconsin winter activity of staying inside and looking out the window, which reaches new heights of enjoyment when typical miserable weather conditions prevail, like they do now. The storm that …
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Kickass and Staying Inside
Attribution: Camera Eye Photography, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having ventured out yesterday in the wind that was so biting cold it ripped his clothes off and left him shivering naked, is announcing that he will not be going outside again until May of …
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Time of the Season
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter This past weekend my brother and I partook in the old family tradition of going up to the family cottage and taking the pier in. It’s not a huge chore or a particularly difficult one, but there is—for me, at least—a kind of sadness attached to the task. …
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Kickass Talks to Weather Department
Hal 0005, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper’s notification to the Department of Wisconsin Weather: “So, just what the hell was that all about–that mid-October snow for no good reason other than to flex your cold muscles and exercise your contrary nature? “By now you know that …
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Kickass and No More Boats
Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the information that as flood warnings prevail over the weekend, the keeper is offering to swap his spot on the ark for a bottle of Korbel brandy. A long life of boat miseries convinces him that he does not …
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Kickass and Severe Weather
U. S. National Weather Service/National Ocean Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be joining the keeper and Phyllis in identifying themselves as “weather prisoners” in view of today’s forecast; and should they get caught out in a storm, it will not be their fault that they get …
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Kickass and the Wind
www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in his relentless efforts to be helpful, lists a few tips for surviving the high winds predicted for today and tomorrow: One. Stay inside with the cats and look out at people walking …
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Kickass and Weather Phrases
Brian0918 at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in assisting the keeper as he tries to see something good in everything, including the Wisconsin winter that refuses to yield to spring, points out that the incredibly stupid political events of the immediate past have produced a plethora …
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Kickass Tackles the Weather
Liz Sales, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has decided to defy the old saw that everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. His plan of “doing something,” has its base in the human capacity for enduring outright, wholesale stupidity as it …
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Kickass and Perfect Spring Day
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, wondered, with rest of the populace, what they did to deserve Mar. 20, 2022 with its first-day-of-spring perfection. In the warm hours of its sunny brilliance, there was an invitation to do something as participatory and extraneous as the …
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