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
Another PM
Ken-Dogger: Morning Clarice
Clarice: Hey Dogger, I’m waiting…
KD: You’re waiting are you…
May I ask for what?
C: Two things Bro…Either take me out or feed me
KD: Oh, you have expectations…
C: I do, my expectations lead to your actions
KD: And what about the prospecting on your part?
C: Dude, you don’t feel the love? Hold it, let me alter the look.
KD: Yes, wile away, expectationally enticing me to action.
C: Dogger, It just works…
An Infrastructure PM
Morning Builders,
Ken-Dogger: Aww Cleo, that’s cute…
Cleo: I was just seein’ something.
KD: Well, what’s that?
C: Just seeing how difficult it is to build something.
KD: When you find out, could you send the info to Congress?
C: Sure, building back better needs a boost
KD: We either learn to build better or we continue cutting ourselves.
C: Guess the cutting hasn’t hurt enough yet.
PM
#pups4peace
Ken-Dogger: Hey Theo, what up?
Theo: Dude, getting ready to send in money, gonna be a writer.
KD: Wow, that’s cool, how you doing that?
T: I send $49.95 to this place, and I get this book and I start earning money as a writer.
KD: Just like that…
T: Well, I might have compressed the part where I learn to write.
KD: So, what is the World going to do with all these writers?
T: Dude, I’m becoming a writer, I can’t be bothered with logistics.
KD: Theo…Just wait until you need paper.
Good Morrow Mates,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Butkus, I’m struggling
Butkus: Good morrow Bro, interesting…
KD: I’m still searching for that activity balance.
B: IKR, I struggle with my awake-sleep cycle.
KD: I’m serious…Mornings aren’t working for workouts due to work.
B: Thought working out was work.
KD: You DO have a point…
Guess I gotta find new ways.
B: At your age?
KD: New ways ward off the struggle.
PM
Ken-Dogger: Spot, what ARE you doing?
Spot: Dude, I see you leave every morning and head to the gym, I'm ready to go too.
KD: Aww, my boy, I do a pretty extensive workout
Spot: You see me liftin' here, wait till you see my curls
KD: Dude, I see a bar on your chest, when you lift it, that's called liftin'
Spot: Workout purists take the fun out of it
KD: Well, you got the outfit down, that's a start
Spot: SEE, being positive motivates
KD: Still not seein' any liftin'...
Happy Place PM
Ken-Dogger: Morning Max…
Max: Morning KD, I’m packed.
KD: Well, indeed you are…Where do you want to go?
M: Not sure, what are the choices?
KD: Well, we could visit National Parks, we could go to State Parks, or we could go to boondock places.
M: So many choices, so little time…
KD: We don’t worry about time, we’ll make time.
M: I don’t worry about place, we’re together, my happy place.
A Mellow Pups Memory
Morning Mellow Friends,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Melo, what’s going on?
Melo: Dude, I just stepped in somethin’, not cool.
KD: Then, why are you winking?
M: I’m not winking Bro, I’m showing frustration.
KD: Oh? What frustrates you now?
M: Dude, I should recognize these pitfalls and adjust, will keep my paws cleaner.
KD: Wow, you can make adjustments?
M: Bro, if you don’t adjust, you get stuck.
KD: Melo, teach me how to make that face.
Mikster's Mom visits again in Nov
Ken-Dogger: Hey Scratch what up?
Scratch: Dude, still tired…
KD: Oh, you mean from Zion yesterday? It was spectacular.
S: Dude, it was majestic…
KD: Majestic? Wow, big word Scratch…What does today hold?
S: Bro, your life…as you know it, changes…
KD: Why’s that?
S: MIL comes to town Bro…
KD: Whoa, just when you think you’re prepared, reality strikes…
PM
#pups4peace
Ken-Dogger: Hey BooBoo, you drivin’ today?
BooBoo: Come on, I can’t drive…But, get in, we need to catch that truck.
KD: Which one?
BB: Dude, the one where the back rolls around…
KD: Oh, a Cement truck…What’s the thrill in that?
BB: Well, you know how the water and the rock and the mix keep churning…They don’t harden until they’re out and exposed.
KD: So?
BB: So, we need that truck…There are a lot of peeps who need to get thrown in there.
KD: Mixing, not hardening?
BB: You got it…
Morning Conservers and Lovers,
Ken-Dogger: Charlemagne, you okay?
Chalemagne: Dude, come on, I’m fine…why you ask?
KD: You’re just up there and not moving.
C: I’m moving, I’m conserving.
KD: Really, you’re going with that?
C: Bro, that’s the trouble with conservation, peeps don’t see it, so they don’t think there is value in it.
KD: It’s just a matter of ensuring something’s left when you need it.
C: Hence, my conserving…
KD: Hence, my understanding.
Another PM
Ken-Dogger: Snuggles, what you doing at the computer dude?
Snuggles: KD, I'm checking my voter registration status.
KD: What...You guys vote now?
Snuggles: Dig it, Congress just this year approved dogs voting for dog catchers, this was their only election improvement given Russian interference in 2016.
KD: Wow, you get to vote for your subjugators...
Snuggles: Yes, just like humans.
Morning Peeps, a Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: Hey Rocco, rad day bro…
Rocco: I’m hip…Wow, did you see that?
KD: That awesome wave bro?
R: Naw dude, that honey lying up there…
KD: Rocco, focus buddy, this is serious work on this board.
R: You mean we’re riding this thing, not just lookin’ cool?
KD: Yep…
R: I didn’t think this through…
KD: Sign of times Rocco, sign of the times.
A PM
Morning Peeps In Systems,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Dietrich
Dietrich: Cooperate to Graduate, Cooperate to Graduate…
KD: What are you going on about?
D: Bro, I’m worried about the supply chains, prices keep increasing. Dog food going through the roof, man.
KD: IKR, we overcome one systems hurdle, and another one comes.
D: Peeps don’t understand how systems work, they work in unison, when they work.
KD: I get it, cooperate to graduate, cooperate to graduate.
A Pups Memory for the MODS in the Crowd
Pups in unison: Really Dude?
Ken-Dogger: What?
Noodles: As our spokesman, I must protest this look...
KD: Dudes, I get it, it's rainin' again, you need protection and what can I tell ya, the Mikster loves Dollar Tree
Noodles: Style Dude, style...
KD: Acknowledged
Ken-Dogger: Hey Fonzie
Fonzie: Well, I’m lookin’ around, looks like the yard is done.
KD: Yes, it is…We’ll probably do some tweaks when we find unique stuff, but it is done.
F: You worked hard, and the Mikster helped…You guys make a great team.
KD: We do, it’s what happens when you move with a groove and harmony…
F: You make beautiful things…
KD: When you deeply love, beauty shines through…Things become more beautiful
F: Like me?
KD: Like you Fonz, yes Buddy, you are deeply loved.
Pups Memory
Morning Indigenous Peoples Day Celebrators,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Trixie
Trixie: Peeps are off today, what’s up?
KD: President Biden declared it Indigenous Peoples Day.
KD: Celebrations remind us of our cultural heritages.
T: We need to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ contributions to US culture.
KD: They have one of the highest group rates of Military Service, they honor security.
T: And They value a reverence for life.
KD: Perhaps, we should have more of these days.
Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: Hey Keesha
Keesha: Hey Dogger, what is beauty?
KD: It’s a combination of qualities that pleases the aesthetic senses. Why do you ask?
K: Well, it just seems we aren’t appreciating BEAUTY.
KD: I think you’re correct, it IS all around.
K: Sometimes, I wonder what peeps see with their eyes?
KD: Guess it depends on what their eyes are connected to, their head or their heart.
K: Maybe we just need to get our heads and hearts together.
KD: Maybe then we’ll see…
Another PM for ya, for the LOVE of it
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Knuckles, wazzup?
Knuckles: I'm just hangin' out, it's what I do...
KD: Hey buddy, what are you doing with your paw there?
K: I'm reaching out...
KD: Reaching out? Reaching out for what?
K: Dogger Man, I'm sensing peeps just need a lot of love now and someone's gotta start the love connection
KD: And why not you?
K: That's right dude, why not me...LOVE gets us through all
Getting to the Heart...a PM
Morning Campers and Nature Lovers,
Ken-Dogger: What do you see Butch?
Butch: Opportunity, Communion, Mother Nature, Freedom…
KD: Wow, all that…
B: Dude, you don’t know…gets my legs movin’
KD: Well, let’s see some more of it.
B: When we explore this openness, life settles down.
KD: Yet, we keep building structures and paving paradise.
B: I’ll never understand humans…
KD: Maybe, if we get more humans in nature, we could get to the heart of Human Nature.
A PM
Ken-Dogger: Hey Hoot
Hoot: Did you see that story on climate change yesterday? Kinda said we’re not really doomed.
KD: Saw that, but it did say we need action now.
H: Oh Crap, you mean legislators have our fate?
KD: Yep, and they will wait for the 11th hour for someone/something to save ‘em.
H: Like some technological improvement?
KD: Yes, a tech breakthrough, but it needs to be a real one.
H: IKR, the breakthroughs we’ve been having are ‘Give Me a Break, I’m Through.’
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