TAKIN' ONE FOR THE TEAM
Ken-Dogger: Hey, Claude and Maude, stop that.
Claude: Stop what?
KD: The fighting Bro…not cool
Maude: We’re just playing…it’s how we play.
KD: Well, sometimes playing looks like fighting.
C: We know the difference, we’re cool with it.
KD: You may be, but it strikes of incivility, and we can’t have that.
M: Too much in the world already?
KD: Yep
C: Guess We Pups will just have to take one for the team.
So, take these
Morning Dreamers,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Guys
Lady: Shhh, I’m at a critical point with Floofy.
KD: Huh?
L: She’s worried about her dreams, they’re slippin’ away.
KD: Langston Hughes once said “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
L: With all this extinction, I’m worried about my ability to fly.
KD: We all need to rekindle those dreams, and let the slippin’ stop.
L: Well then, I believe I can fly…I'm touchin' the sky.
PASSION SHOULD BE SHARED
Ken-Dogger: Brutus, what are you doing?
Brutus: Dude, I'm kissin' my girl
KD: Not sure Daisee wants that kiss
Brutus: What you mean dude, she's captivated
KD: Brutus, more like captured you mean...
Brutus: I kiss passionately
KD: Might be good to let Daisee in on that before you do that move again
Ken-Dogger: Hey Killabrew, what up?
Killabrew: AL East Bro, have you seen this Wild Card race?
KD: I have, it’s amazing, one game separates ‘em
K: You play 162 games, and it comes down to one of ‘em.
KD: Gonna be tough on some players and fans because two of these teams are going home in a few days.
K: And two will live on, kinda models US capitalism.
KD: How so?
K: Well, we’re all in the game, right up until the end, and then only a few win.
KD: It’s apparently, the American Way…
FRIENDSHIP KNOWS NO BOUNDS
Ken-Dogger: Chuckles, who's your buddy?
Chuckles: People let me tell you 'bout my best friend, he's a warm hearted person who'll love me till the end.
KDr: Chuck, you DO realize he's a cat.
Chuckles: People let me tell you bout my best friend, he's a one boy cuddly toy, my up, my down, my pride and joy.
KD: Friendship knows no bounds does it buddy?
Chuckles: Just need to be real, just need to be real, dude...
(Homage to Nilsson)
THEY JUST LOVE
Morning Lovers and Dogs,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Mooch
Mooch: Did you see? Did you see who moved in?
KD: No, I didn’t.
M: Well, young couple with the cutest little white poodle.
KD: Wow
M: Would you help me spruce up a little, got some courting to do.
KD: But she’s white, and she’s a different breed, won’t that be a problem?
M: Nope, Dogs don’t do color, we aren’t parochial on breeds, we just LOVE.
KD: Oh, to live in a Dog’s World.
MORE ALIKE THAN WE THOUGHT
Ken-Dogger: Morning…Fifi would you leave Jirrard alone.
Jirrard: I beg your pardon
KD: Well, I just thought she was being a little aggressive.
J: Did I look like I needed help?
Fifi: Oui, did he look like he needed help?
KD: Whoa, you two…So you’re gonna do what you’re gonna do?
J&F: Heck yes…Liberated.
KD: Liberated? There’s more to it than just doing what you want. Guess you’re more human than I thought.
KEEP GRINDING UNTIL YOU GET THERE
Ken-Dogger: Why the look, Smalls?
Smalls: Dude, what’s a daily challenge?
KD: Depends, if it’s a card game, you try to win; if a task, you try to accomplish it.
S: Wow, I see you do your solitaire challenge…just wondering.
KD: Oh, are you going to set yourself up for challenges?
S: Yep, I’m motivated…Today’s challenge is only sleeping 20 hours of the day.
KD: Getting ready to take it on?
S: Boy, I’m gonna keep grinding.
Morning,
#pups4peace
Ken-Dogger: Hey Chilly
Chilly: Pray tell, what is this, with the hand?
KD: We’re learning hand signals, this means stop.
C: Oh, it does, how cute, and what is supposed to happen?
KD: When I raise my hand, you stop.
C: REALLY, how cute, and are there examples where this works?
KD: Not currently, nobody stops anymore, they just drive forward.
C: Works for me…But if we all drive forward, won’t there be crashes?
KD: They will come, Chilly, trust me, they will come.
From 2018, when we were in the thick of the morass
Random Stranger: Hey Dude, your dogs look kinda spooked...
Ken-Dogger: Naw, bro, they just got done watching the Undude meltdown at the press conference
RS: Sheesh, they look destroyed...
KD: No different than the rest of the country, now known as BUFFOONS-R-US
KEEP 'EM SPECIAL
Morning Routine Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Brutus
Brutus: Ah, Dogger, a little help…I’m not that big.
KD: Maybe not in size, but in heart, you’re big.
B: You ready to start the week?
Get your routines started?
KD: You makin’ fun of my routines?
B: Dude, you’re so predictable.
KD: Routines keep me regulated, what’s the issue?
B: Are your routines becoming routine?
KD: When they do, I mix ‘em up…routines should never become routine.
THERE ARE FORCES AFOOT
Roscoe: Okay Juul, watch how Buster stealthily goes up and gets us a cookie
Juul: And this is how we train?
Roscoe: Yep, this is Doggie training son
Juul: Would you look at that, Mommy liftin' Buster clean out of that area...And no cookie
Roscoe: I did NOT see that coming...important lesson - there are forces in the world beyond your control
Juul: Got it
BEING SPECTACULAR SPECTATORS
Ken-Dogger: Morning Chelsea…
Chelsea: Hey Bro, look at me.
KD: You having fun rolling in the leaves?
C: It’s my fave Fall thing.
KD: Wondering what kind of change we’ll see this year in Utah?
C: Not sure, do you think it will be spectacular?
KD: Nature does spectacular all the time…We just don’t always see it.
C: Well then I’m spectating the spectacular…
WHEN YOU RETURN, BRING THE PRESENT.
Morning Presence Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Paulie, okay to say hello today? We’ve been back…
Paulie: Whoa, you’re asking permission? That’s a first…
KD: Come on P-Daddy, cut me some slack.
P: Well, what did you bring me?
KD: There will be no money, just some tangibles, like love and affection.
P: No presents?
KD: You’re nothing if not persistent, just this…Live in it-the present, make every day count.
P: That is our present.
WEST END PUPS
Spot: Since you went away I've been hanging around, I've been wondering why I'm feeling down
Dot: You went away, it should make me feel better, but I don't know, oh
Spot: How I'm gonna get through, baby, what have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this
Dot: How I'm gonna get through, baby, what have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this, how I'm gonna get through, baby
(Homage to Pet Shop Boys)
Morning Peeps,
BELIEFS...
Ken-Dogger: Morning Roscoe, what are you doing?
Roscoe: Staring at a horse…
KD: A horse? That doesn’t look like a horse.
R: What do you think it is?
KD: Looks like a tulip to me…
R: Huh, I’m saying it’s a Horse.
KD: Okay, but I think you’re mistaken.
R: Hey, if peeps can believe whatever the Hell they want to, so can I…
KD: And there you have it.
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277