Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis in Ripon for a Phyllis family reunion that went off without a hitch—no fistfights or political shouting. Following enjoyable family affairs, the keeper and Phyllis struggled with tech navigation in trying to find the historic Ripon “Little Red Schoolhouse” …
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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 Migrating to Paoli
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is at a loss to help the keeper with his current dilemma in which he has this inexplicable urge to go to Paoli, a small crossroads community just south of Madison. It was only through his keen ability to think analytically that the keeper was …
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Kickass and Workers Over Billionaires
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis and several hundred enthusiastic sign carriers, bell-ringing alderwoman Joanne Pritchett, the singing “Raging Grannies” and a multitude of “Silver Badgers” in wheelchairs, with walkers and using canes at the intersection of Tree Lane and Gammon Road Monday to wave …
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Kickass and Cow Chip Throwing Contest
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s proud announcement that granddaughter Sarah participated in the Sauk-Prairie cow chip throwing weekend, running a marathon and throwing a chip a respectable distance. The keeper is not on Sarah’s coaching staff which is headed by Sarah’s father Mike who has …
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Kickass and Badass Badger
Attribution: USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports receiving a message from Badass Badger who provides security for the keeper and Phyllis from his post on their 5th floor Vista West balcony. That message, when its language was cleaned up for public consumption, was: “On this Wisconsin Badger …
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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 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 Sarah’s Fungi
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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 and Old Haunts
Attribution: Photo by Peter Werkman on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the word that the keeper and Phyllis will be joining son Mike and granddaughter Sarah to travel north to some of the keeper’s old haunts just to see if they have recovered from the damage incurred by his youthful excesses. A full report will …
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