Attribution: GiorgioEinserkofel Galeotti, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper says to never mind the first robin, where he grew up in northwest Wisconsin, even the crows left to avoid the shank of winter; and he remembers it as a sign of early spring to hear …
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Kickass Dials Up Dreams
Attribution: Ziga, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is cooperating with the keeper to refine his dial-a-dream technology on the heels of waking up from a lengthy session on the Wolf River with the likes of companions John Lawton, Carl Lee and Art Jensen, and Claude from the garage …
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Kickass and Four Sons
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is performing a public service this morning by informing the residents of Colorado and other western haunts that the keeper’s four sons—Larry, Scott, Rick and Mike, have assembled at Rick and Becky’s home near Denver in what they claim is …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Winter
Attribution: Richardfabi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observations as he and Phyllis drove to a Mauston lunch date with Phyllis’s son Todd:  This cannot be Wisconsin in mid-February, this brown, snowless land with its clusters of naked trees and exposed expanses of dead …
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Kickass and the Fox Hunts
Attribution: Photo by Amanda Frank on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper recognizes this time of year as the season of the great fox hunts when he and country cousins and comrades in northwest Wisconsin spent Saturday afternoons slogging through deep midwinter snow as they followed the track of a fox that …
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Kickass and Car Experience
Attribution: Ford Model T, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is fresh off one of those high-tech car experiences that discourages him from so much as opening the hood as corporate decisions and sophisticated techies make a big deal out of a simple dead battery. …
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Kickass and the Groundhog’s Shadow
Attribution: Anthony Quintano from Mount Laurel, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper passes along news that the Repub’s attempts to impeach the groundhog and replace it with a weasel has stalled as the entire weasel family—which includes the badger, serves notice that they …
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Kickass Has Battery Woes
Attribution: New York Public Library, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper has lived with car battery woes his entire long life and it isn’t over yet—the battery woes, that is, as a Subaru battery warranty issue involves a loaner car and an indefinite wait as …
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Kickass Goes Ice Fishing
Attribution: Anneli Salo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting how the unusual winter weather has set up Wisconsin as an ice-fishing mecca; and as descended from a father who viewed the weird sport in religious terms, the keeper recalls with fond memories occasionally joining …
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Kickass in The Deeryard Overnight
Attribution: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, comments that it is not as if the keeper runs so short on memories that he must constantly recycle them, it is that some of those memories seem to somehow gain status with the passage of time and demand repeated …
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Dialogues on 2024 Predictions: Meet the New Boss
Attribution: Photo by Colton Sturgeon on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, It is often said (by me) that predictions are hard. Especially when they involve the future. But today, feeling introspective on this last day of the year, as beautiful snow flurries create a …
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Kickass Goes Bobsledding
Attribution: Father of JGKlein, used with permission, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in operating in that statistical area of life expectancy of men being less than for women, and also noting the risk involved in growing up with older male cousins and their friends. The …
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