Category:Wisconsin

Kickass and Amish Cultivator

Posted on July 1, 2024Updated on July 1, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Memories, Wisconsin

Attribution: Photo by Brad Weaver on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps in the first bright morning sunshine of July 2024 as the keeper tries to send a message to the Amish youth up in central Wisconsin who was riding that one-row corn cultivator behind a team of horses as the keeper and Phyllis passed …
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Kickass and Travel Notes

Posted on June 27, 2024Updated on June 27, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Travel, Wisconsin

Attribution: Yinan Chen, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop joins the keeper in offering a few random travel notes on a trip he and Phyllis made to Luca’s Wisconsin Rapids birthday party: *Wisconsin Rapids does have rapids, visible now–with the high water, from the Highway 54 bridge. *Remnants of Wisconsin’s …
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Kickass and Summer Bonding

Posted on June 26, 2024Updated on June 26, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Weather, Wisconsin

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass the doorstop dog joins the keeper in noting that everyone bonds with the emerging summer in their own way. With Phyllis it is through her raised garden plot that has already produced little radishes and kale for adding to refreshing salads. In the keeper’s case, the summer …
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Kickass and Two Day Shopping

Posted on June 24, 2024Updated on June 24, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Memories, Wisconsin

Attribution: © European Union, 2024, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper as he continues to fall even farther behind in trying to adjust to the ever-changing, all-American preoccupation with shopping. The keeper’s resistance to shopping obviously has its origin in his very first solo experience …
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Kickass and Bear Hunters

Posted on June 21, 2024Updated on June 21, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Animal Rights, Hunting, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: kikiciao, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper with the annual reminder that of the many things that set Wisconsin summers apart there is the July 1-Aug. 31 outrageous, inhuman, unbelievable bear hound training program. Thousands of bear hounders from all over the country gang into …
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Kickass and Rainy Day Fishing

Posted on June 20, 2024Updated on June 20, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Fishing, Humor, Kickass, Weather, Wisconsin

Attribution: A farm track after rain by Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation that only a former farm boy of his obsolete vintage can remember how to appreciate a summer day that dawns wet and rainy and with the kind of overcast that is …
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Kickass and Wading Streams

Posted on June 13, 2024Updated on June 13, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Fishing, Humor, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: Photo by Taylor Grote on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper as he “refishes” a thousand trout streams, often in the company of his mentor John Lawton who taught him about Korbel brandy and the wading rights to streams even as they run through private property. John approached stream rights with a …
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Kickass and the Mayfly Hatch

Posted on June 11, 2024Updated on June 11, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Fishing, Humor, Kickass, Nature, Wisconsin

Attribution: Davide125, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s shaky equilibrium, as Phyllis knows, is so easily tipped off kilter that he should probably be encased in a plastic bubble. This morning it was a bit of gray cottonwood fluff floating by the window, and the …
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Kickass and Book from Grandchildren

Posted on June 6, 2024Updated on June 6, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass, Nature, Wisconsin

Attribution: John Benson from Madison WI, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in constantly marveling at their good fortune in having such outstanding grandchildren, and great grandchildren, of course. Periodically there are occurrences that endorse this judgement, and so it was when Nick and …
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Kickass Gets Rained On

Posted on June 4, 2024Updated on June 4, 2024by Geoff CarterCategories:Humor, Kickass, Weather, Wisconsin

Attribution: Photo by Tasos Mansour on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in wondering what the effect might be on an elderly man—real elderly, if he should get seriously rained on due to several highly questionable decisions as one of those booming thunderstorms put its act together with unusual abruptness? Since he likes …
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Kickass and CC the Coyote

Posted on May 29, 2024Updated on May 29, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Wisconsin

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that there have been a number of inquires regarding the metal animal form that incidentally showed up on a posted photo of the keeper’s new balcony windmill. That animal is the Colorado Coyote–“CC” that was a gift from son Rick many years ago …
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Kickass and the New Windmill

Posted on May 28, 2024Updated on May 28, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has always wanted a windmill, and now he finally has one, on the 5th floor Vista West balcony where he and Phyllis reside. It is a beautiful thing—green, eight feet tall, and looks exactly like the windmills from the keeper’s …
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