TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
THE EGGNOG OF THINGS
Ken-Dogger: Is someone having trouble getting up this morning?
Butch: Rum, Rum, Rum your boat, gently down...
KD: Wait a minute, wait a minute, I thought it was row, row, row your boat?
Butch: Dude, Eggnog changes things...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Rocco, what you got goin' on today?
Rocco: Dude, UPS man said I could help during the season.
KD: REALLY? They wanted you to step up?
R: Yep, seems I rock this whole 'brown' thingie...
KD: You do, but you know there is more to this than just lookin' good, there's some heavy lifting
R: UPS man needs to be more forthcoming
KD: Yes, but they DO need our help during the season...it's what we should do to spread our joy.
WHAT IS CHRISTMAS IN YOUR BOOK?
Ken-Dogger: Morning Clay, how you doing?
Clay: Fine Dogger, but I’m searching…
KD: What for?
C: Dude, Christmas is coming up, you guys have been super good and sweet to me all year, I want to get you two something.
KD: So you think I should take you shopping?
C: How ‘bout it…
KD: Well, we are blessed, we have much…But you give us gifts daily
C: How?
KD: You just love us, and we love you…That’s Christmas in my book.
Morning Wondrous and Noble Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Killer
Killer: Hey Bro, you know I don’t like that name.
KD: IKR, you don’t look like a killer.
K: Then why?
KD: We just knew you were gonna be a Ladies’ Man.
K: Wow, and you used Casanova already? So, words can have two meanings?
KD: Often Killer
K: How do you know which one someone uses?
KD: You gotta converse with each other…
K: Simple as that?
KD: Simple as that…
FESTOONING...NOT FOR THE WEAK
Ken-Dogger: Hey Brutus, you’re lookin’ rather festive this morning…
Brutus: Dude, I’m not liking this…
KD: Come On buddy, humor the Mrs., she gets all excited during this time of year
B: I’m cool with dat, but the festooning…
KD: Really? Festooning?? You’re getting ridiculous
B: Dude, just matching my look…
KD: Okay, I’ll work on her, maybe get some more manly man stuff
B: Either that bro, or these things are going on my manly parts…
KD: I hear that…
NOT COMPLETELY WRAPPED
Spot: Morning Ken
Ken-Dogger: Hey Spot, well would you look at that, getting into a festive spirit I see
S: Yep, saw the Mikster wrapping and thought I'd give it a try, what you think?
KD: Awesome sauce Boy, you nailed it...and I see you left a little spot at the base of your spine just like in Goldfinger.
S: Yeppir Dude, Bond, Spot Bond...shaken, not stirred, nor completely wrapped.
KD: That completely wrapped part, I can believe that...
IT FREES OR IT ENSLAVES
Ken-Dogger: Well Dobber, what you got yourself into this morning?
Dobber: This corner, they're closing in...they have me surrounded
KD: Dude, the cats tell me you've made up some stories about them
D: I may have taken some liberties with the telling
KD: The truth always comes out
D: Not before I exhaust all other possibilities
KD: Dobber, know this...the truth will set you free or enslave you, the choice is yours...
KNOW LOVE...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Buddy, how's it going this morning?
Buddy: Going well KD, I'm gonna stay right here with you.
KD: Why is that? You're not going off to play?
B: Naw, I want you to know how much I love you.
KD: Buddy, I know, and you know I love you too.
B: I do, but I always think I don't give enough back.
KD: You always give love, you know no other way...
AGAIN THIS YEAR, HE STAYED AWAY FROM THE ROASTER
Ken-Dogger: Morning Clive, you know it’s Thanksgiving right?
Clive: I do Bro, gonna watch the Mikster cook all day long
KD: And smell the smells?
C: Particularly the smells, they MOVE me…
KD: Can I lay some advice on you about today?
C: Sure Bro…
KD: You MIGHT want to change how you’re lying around, and definitely stay away from the Roaster
C: Thanks Bro, Happy Thanksgiving everyone
STILL WASHING AWAY
Ken-Dogger: Hey Jocko, what up?
Jocko: Checkin’ out the moon Bro and getting ready for the Beaver Moon.
KD: Beaver Moon, those two words aren’t usually used together.
J: Bro, it’s a partial eclipse Silly, where is your mind?
KD: Oh…tell me more
J: It’s from the Algonquins, it’s a November Full Moon, and Sunday Night we get an eclipse.
KD: A full eclipse would help us wash 2020 away.
J: Dude, it’s just partial, we aren’t that lucky.
FIGURING OUT ENOUGH
Morning Seasoned Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Gilberto, what is up?
Gilberto: Thought I’d take Lucy for a spin…
KD: Umm, you know it’s like in the 30s out there.
G: Oh, no…didn’t factor that in. Maybe just necking on the porch then…
KD: Really? Not sure why you’re confused…
G: Dude, there are no discrete seasons anymore, we roll from one to the other.
KD: Does seem that way, consumption drives us…
G: Maybe we need to figure out what we have is enough.
FAT AND BLOATED
Ken-Dogger: Morning Flo, Morning Jo…You look how I feel.
Flo: Hey Dogger, I be full.
KD: Umm, Flo, it is I am full.
Flo: You too? What about Jo?
KD: Jo looks as full as you and I do.
Jo: Guys, have you seen the moon this morning?
KD: No, why?
Jo: Moon must have been thanksgiving too, it looks flat and bloated this morning.
Flo: It’s just seeing the earth’s reflection…
KD: More so today, than most other days…But you’re right, the Earth remains fat and bloated.
COME DANCING...
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Tom-Tom
Tom-Tom: Quite a spread the Mikster laid out yesterday.
KD: It was, I’m still stuffed…but it was also great conversation with family and friends.
T-T: I hear that.
KD: It’s nice to share laughter around food, brings joy to the stomach.
T-T: It cracked me up when Ken and B.A. started dancing.
KD: It made me think perhaps we don’t get old; we just stop dancing.
T-T: Dude, you gotta keep dancing in your life.
DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL...PARTICULARLY IF IT'S A MALE NEEDING DIRECTION
Ken-Dogger: Petie, how you doing this fine morning?
Petie: Well, I've been out walkin', I don't do that much talkin' these days...these days I seem to wander a lot
KD: Hey boy, just remember all who wander are not lost.
P: Dude, but I was, I wandered and I freakin' got lost.
KD: You were in our neighborhood; we didn't you just ask?
P: Dude, you get that I'm male right?
THOSE PUPS
Ken-Dogger: We-ee-lll Snookums, what we got goin' on?
Snookums: KD, I heard you talking about driving back home today, thought I'd help.
KD: Snookums, it can be a little treacherous out there today, big driving day in America.
S: That's what I'm talkin' 'bout...Let me at 'em, I'll get us home in no time.
KD: Buddy, that's what I'm afraid of...How about you let me take the first shift
S: Okay, Ken...I'll keep practicing in the back...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Chief, Happy Thanksgiving, you protecting us?
Chief: Thanks, you too, I am and watching peeps come home to family.
KD: We still can’t get many families together.
C: And, just so you know, we still have security issues within/between nations.
KD: There are Peeps who stand guard for the USA, they’re standing guard now. The US Military…
C: Yes, Bless them for the protection they provide.
KD: Amen…
C: And give ‘em some extra turkey and taters, you know…for the effort.
Praise Millicent...She knows
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Millicent
Millicent: Morning…Dude, what are you doing?
KD: What do you mean?
M: Your training, it’s all over the place…
KD: IKR, I don’t know if I’m training for biking or golf or what…
M: What you gonna do?
KD: I must focus on results, looks like it’s back to the books
M: All you know on training and you’re going back to books?
KD: Knowledge is built on firm understandings, not by fly-by marketers.
THE ULTIMATE GOAL...BALANCE
Ken-Dogger: Morning Petie.
Petie: Hey Dogger, have you seen this #givethanks?
KD: I have, great sentiment…
P: Yep, it is.
KD: Why the cape Petie?
P: Well, you know I’m white and black. Some peeps think I’m too white, some think I’m too black…The Cape balances me.
KD: And the balance helps how?
P: Bro, if I’m not balanced, won’t my #givethanks be unbalanced?
KD: So #givethanks helps both of us?
P: See how this works…
The Most Beautiful Word in the English Language...GRACE
Ken-Dogger: Morning Grace
Grace: Morning, hey, why did you call me Grace?
KD: Well, you were born on Thanksgiving that year and, well, Thanksgiving is full of grace, a uniquely American religious holiday.
G: What religion?
KD: American religion, we don't celebrate just one, but we give grace to all, and grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues
G: And I do ALL of that...
KD: Yes you do Grace, yes you do.
We ALL have Standards to meet...
Ken-Dogger: Morning Slay, why the stare?
Slay: Dude, I’m watching you…
KD: Oh, you checkin’ on me, seeing if I’m doing your breakfast right?
S: I am…Can’t be too sure…we have our routines
KD: Yes we do, and your stare keeps me on track?
S: Owner training, bro…Owner training
KD: How am I doing?
S: Just keep mixing, I’ll let you know…you’re trending up
TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017