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
DOGGIES DO WHAT HUMANS WON'T DO...
Ken-Dogger: Morning Buster, uh oh, what’s up?
Buster: Morning, I want food and then a walk…
KD: Aren’t you a little demanding this morning…
B: I’m figuring out you have to be forceful
KD: To get stuff done?
B: No bro, to help Earth, walking reduces our carbon footprint
KD: And I’m helping with that?
B: Yes you are, we’re going to make this work, if humans don’t save us, dogs will…
A PROBLEM OF SCALE
Ken-Dogger: Fluffer, you okay buddy?
Fluffer: I saw something...it startled me
KD: What was it buddy?
F: Not sure, would you check it out for me?
KD: Okay Fluffer...Look it's a centipede, just movin' along, it won't hurt you
F: Dude, it's a problem of scale, he might look small to you, but those legs...
KD: It's always a problem of scale, wish more peeps would get that.
F: Thanks Dogger...knew you'd give me peace
COOPERATE TO GET THROUGH
Morning Cooperators,
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Slats, give me five…
Slats: Giving 5, cause I’m alive…
KD: So what are you doing?
S: What’s it look like, I’m training Bro…
KD: How’s it going?
S: It’s a struggle, my peeps don’t want to cooperate.
KD: Well, in OCS, we learned cooperate to graduate…
S: And if my peeps would just cooperate, we’d get through this…
KD: And if my peeps would just cooperate…
Ken-Dogger: Hey Shep, what ya doin'?
Shep: Streets full of people, all alone
Roads full of houses, never home
Church full of singing, out of tune
Everyone's gone to the moon
KD: Wha...you dreamin'?
S: Eyes full of sorrow, never wet
Hands full of money, all in debt
Sun coming out in the middle of June
Everyone's gone to the moon
KD: You're right, Long time ago, Life had begun
Everyone went to the sun, now not so sure...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Rascal, Katie got you in her grip?
Rascal: When blackness was a virtue, and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, come in, she said, I'll give you shelter from the storm
KD: How did you know Katie was gonna give you shelter?
R: Not a word was spoken between us, there was little risk involved
KD: So, you imagined a place where it’s always safe and warm
R: Righto Dogger, she gives me shelter from the storm
KD: And that’s all you need…
BW would have been 102 today
HB2U Betty White...
Snuggles: 2000, zero, zero, party over, oops, out of time.
Ken-Dogger: Snuggles, Prince this early?
S: So tonight, I’m gonna party like it’s 1999.
KD: What is up?
S: Bro, it’s for Betty…
KD: Betty, what Betty?
S: Betty White, she’s 1999 today.
KD: Snuggles, she’s 99…sheesh
S: Okay, okay, I was a little off.
KD: Rough order of magnitude of a thousand years…
S: Estimation – it’s a dying art.
COME TOGETHER, RIGHT NOW...OVER PEACE
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Lovie
Lovie: Hey Dogger, I see people stoking hate last night
KD: Yep, when that’s all you got, you stoke hate.
L: Why do some peeps find it difficult to love?
KD: Perhaps they feel unloved
L: They’re gonna feel more unloved if they keep stoking hate.
KD: It IS making the distinction pretty clear, we can come together or we can get pulled apart.
L: I’m coming together…right now
KD: Yes, let’s come together.
WHEN BREXIT WAS A BIG DEAL
Ken-Dogger: Hey Felix, sporting the Union Jack today?
Felix: Yep, Helping Theresa on her BREXIT...
KD: Oh really, guess you missed the vote huh?
F: There was a second referendum?
KD: Not yet...it's coming, maybe no-confidence vote first
F: Damn, shit's gettin' real...Governing ain't what it used to be is it?
KD: Nope, and it won't get easier, we need solutions, not promises
F: Right, more fantasy...
NATURE...It's a Therapy
Ken-Dogger: What Cleo?
Cleo: Just checking you Bro, you seem tense lately.
KD: A lot to be tense about right now.
C: Yep, I DO believe you can get caught up in it.
KD: The anger, the acrimony, the toil on all of us.
C: I’m sensing it’s overwhelming…
KD: It can be, but you can’t stay in it.
C: Is this why we’re walking so often these days.
KD: One of ‘em, but mostly it’s the nature therapy.
CEMENTING LOVE...DOGGIE STYLE
Ken-Dogger: OMG, look at you Dash.
Dash: Wha…?
KD: Hugging Cato, how cute.
D: IKR, and we’re supposed to be enemies.
KD: Not sure enemies, you just usually don’t get along.
D: That’s why I’m huggin’, shows we can.
KD: You might not want to do a chokehold around the neck.
D: Bro, I’m controlling the hugging until Cato gets it.
KD: You sure Cato’s gettin’ this?
D: The hugging stops when the love cements…
KD: Let’s get to cementing then…
Morning Walkers and Bonders,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Luca, you ready?
Luca: I am Dogger, let’s do this…
KD: Let me get your stuff on, gotta keep you safe out there.
L: Love how you care for me Bro.
KD: Love how you care for me Luca.
L: How so?
KD: Well, walks soothe, and they help us bond
L: And I get cuddles from the Ladies
KD: Where is that leash?
IT AIN'T LEMON
Ken-Dogger: Hey Thor, we got snow...
Thor: Yippur, Dude...playin' all day
KD: You want me to get the flavored bottles so I can make some sno-cones for ya?
T: Awesome Dogger, what you got?
KD: I got cherry, grape, lemon...
T: How 'bout all three?
KD: How 'bout just the first two, your brothers have been out here...ya gotta watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow...
T: It ain't lemon?
KD: It ain't...
Morning Calm Ones,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Yuri, you’re looking a little frazzled.
Yuri: Dude, It’s Friday the 13th…
KD: No, it isn’t.
Y: This year couldn’t get any more weird, it’s startin’ to wear.
KD: Um, Yuri…
Y: I’m getting more frazzled by the day…
KD: Would you stop, It’s not Friday, it’s Saturday, the 13th.
Y: Whew, guess I was on a roll…
KD: Good to know when you are…
WHERE WE FOCUS...
Ken-Dogger: Morning Bronco, now you remind me?
Bronco: Okay, what did I do now?
KD: You’re reminding me of the Championship game the day after it happened?
B: Did someone miss THE game?
KD: Shoosh, had other things on my mind.
B: It has been trying times, but you love Football.
KD: Bronco, I love my country more…It needs my attention.
B: Dude, we all need to focus on country and lessen the focus on man.
KD: I hear that Bronco, I hear that.
CONTAINMENT...It's how you deal with it
Ken-Dogger: Trixie, what are you doing?
Trixie: Well, right now, paws are stuck, help me…
KD: Sheesh, do I need to make the pen bigger?
T: Nope, I’m not diggin’ the penning phase.
KD: You need a pen now, it contains you and your follies.
T: Containment, the bane of puppies everywhere.
KD: Get used to it, we’re all contained.
T: Okay, if all of us are doing it, I can too.
KD: Wow, a societal perspective…
HOMAGE...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Bernie, tryin' to catch a Tumbleweed Connection today?
Bernie: I've Come Down In Time for some ol' Country Comfort in my bones...
KD: You're the Son of the Father, you're supposed to be looking for My Father's Gun...
B: Well then, Where to Now St. Peter? Getting ready to write a Love Song to Amoreena...
KD: I'm still talking to Old Soldiers who want to Burn Down the Mission
B: Funny, I'm just avoiding thinking about the Madman Across the Water...
SOMETIMES, FOOLS DO RUSH IN...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Teddie, you stretching?
Teddie: Always Bro, it gets me ready for action.
KD: IKR, I stretch before I work out. I should stretch more after too.
T: I really don’t know how you do anything without preppin’ for it?
KD: A lot of peeps like rushing into stuff…
T: Dude, I’m going to prep, it keeps me grounded and ready for the day.
KD: You’re right Teddie, let’s not play where fools rush in.
Ken-Dogger: Morning Chauncey…oops, I’ll be quiet
Chauncey: ZZ
KD: You’re probably very tired, the events of the last few days have caused all of us stress. It’s time to take a breather.
C: ZZ
KD: Maybe this is the strategic pause we need to recalibrate things, maybe it’s our opportunity to stop all this bellicose behavior?
C: ZZ
KD: Naw, each side is just reloading, they don’t seem to know another way to coexist
C: ZZ
KD: Crickets? Funny, that’s the same response I’ll get from them
YOU JUST TURN YOUR PRETTY HEAD AND WALK AWAY
Ken-Dogger: Morning Snoop
Snoop: Morning, got a question about yesterday…Did you see Method Dog and me playing?
KD: Yes I did, looked like it was good fun
S: It was until MD started upping the ante…He started hitting me harder
KD: That doesn’t seem right
S: IKR, jeez…so I hit him harder back, he hit me harder, so I hit him harder back
KD: When did it stop?
S: When I walked away
KD: Did you declare victory?
S: Mission Accomplished
SMELLING DECEIT
Warning Signs...
Ken-Dogger: Hey Charlie, be careful.
Charlie: Wha…?
KD: There was a briar right there, didn’t want you to step on it.
C: Thanks for the warning Bro…
KD: Thanks for knowing how to respond to a warning.
C: IKR, when you tell me what to do, I believe.
KD: Yep, and when peeps tell you in words and deeds who they are, believe them.
C: Dude, I know this, I can smell deceit.
KD: Could you teach the rest of us?
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