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
Reminding those who can't remember this...LOVE IS THE ANSWER
Ken-Dogger: Come on Malph, it’s time to wake up. It’s Friday.
Malph: A Day like any other…
KD: Where’s your enthusiasm this morning?
M: Dude, you see me sleeping? I’m sleeping enthusiastically, well enough for ya?
KD: Okay, I’ll cut you some slack. It’s just it’s important to keep track of days now.
M: Hey Bro, every day I love you, is there something else?
KD: Nope, Love, love is the answer…all you need is love.
PLAYS WELL WITH SELF AND OTHERS
Ken-Dogger: Hey Heath, let’s practice our walking.
Heath: Dude, I know how to walk, but you want me on a leash.
KD: It’s not so much I want you on it, it just keeps you safe when we’re out.
H: Oh, you mean like wearing a mask in a global pandemic?
KD: Yep, just like that, protection for you and for others.
H: Wow, thinking of others’ safety, novel concept.
KD: Sadly, true…
ONE LESS EGG TO FRAY...2021
Morning Vaxxers,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Denver, did you hear what CDC did?
Denver: No, what?
KD: If you’re vaxxed, you don’t need a mask anymore.
D: So there are some benefits to getting vaccinated.
KD: Loads of ‘em, but here’s what it did for me.
D: What?
KD: Can I finish? It gives me peace, a little peace of mind.
D: I’m hip…
KD: One less fear to answer, one less egg to fry.
D: You did what society needed, proud of you Bro…
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Morning Teacup
Teacup: Hey Dogger, I was just thinkin’…
KD: Go on...
T: Well, it’s about satisfaction…Are you satisfied?
KD: Whoa…well, let me reflect. I think generally so…
T: Who’s talkin’ ‘bout Chinese food, I mean feelings.
KD: I was saying generally I’m satisfied, not General Tso's Chicken.
T: Well, I wanna be bigger.
KD: Let’s talk about attainable targets.
From the time of the PANDEMIC 2020
Ken-Dogger: Morning Luca, you stretching?
Luca: No Bro, I’m thinking…
KD: Pray Tell…
L: Well, You guys are around more now, I’m thinking fees for service.
KD: Fees for service? What service?
L: I create distractions…You think it is easy keeping peeps together?
KD: They’re already couples…They decided together works.
L: That was then, this is now…Together is different now.
A BEEGEES PUPS
Ken-Dogger: Hey Dalia, what up
Dalia: I’m trying to smile an everlasting smile, a smile to bring you near to me
KD: Did I find you down, cause that would bring a tear to me.
D: Dude, the world has lost its glory, time for a new story?
K: A new Love Story, right now, there’ll be no other time
D: I only have words
K: Words are all you need to take my heart away…
D: Love, Love, Love…take it away.
(Homage to the Gibbs)
Morning Searchers,
Ken-Dogger: Hey there Rollo, slow day?
Rollo: Naw, just thinkin’ about what I gotta do.
KD: And what, pray tell, is that?
R: Doing a search, yep, a search.
KD: Okay, I’ll bit, a search for what?
R: I’m searching for ugly pennies.
KD: What the heck is an ugly penny?
R: Not sure myself, but everyone now says everything costs a pretty penny, I was just hoping to find something I could afford.
KD: Aren’t we all Roll, are we all.
Morning Peeps,
SALUTING MOMS
Ken-Dogger: Well…Someone looks a tad tired this morn.
Tate: Dude, that’s not the half of it.
KD: Why so?
T: I followed Mom around lots yesterday, it wore me out.
KD: And yesterday was an ‘off-day’ for Moms, just think about a regular day.
T: STOP, I can’t deal with the horror…
KD: But Moms do, every single day, Moms do…They do, do, do
T: While we dah, dah, dah?
KD: Yep, Mothers – Keeping the World together since when Troglodytes roamed.
THE RIGHTEOUS GOOD
Ken-Dogger: Hold on there Thor…
Thor: I’m ready to go, I need some room to move.
KD: But you gotta learn how to walk on this leash, it’s how we get you to places.
T: Leash? I don’t see no stinkin’ leash on you?
KD: Umm, I walk upright, I follow rules, and I maintain the public good.
T: Well, aren’t you all righteous…
KD: No, just being safe for self and others, more should also.
T: Dude, to get there with humans, you’re gonna need more leashes…
I guess it was Mother's Day on this date in 2021
Morning and Happy Mother's (MOM is WOW) Day to all Mothers...
Ken-Dogger: M…O…M
Alfred: W…O…W
KD: What are you doing?
A: Spelling what you’re writing…
KD: I’m writing MOM…
A: I’m reading WOW…
KD: Oh, you’re upside down…
A: You might think that Bro, but MOM is WOW in my book.
KD: She IS, let’s wish her a hap, hap, happy day, she makes our world WOW.
Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: Hey Lucy, you getting juicy?
Lucy: Just stop, do you just joke all the time?
KD: Sorry, I awake at 100 mph, I’m on the clock…
L: Yes, and I’m cute, but that doesn’t mean I take liberties.
KD: Oh, like making jokes at others’ expense?
L: Something like that…You need a new shtick.
KD: Wow, you mean personal growth?
L: Yes, even now when this pandemic rages, we should focus on growth.
24YEARS TODAY, THE MIKSTER IS A SAINT
Morning Peeps (Anniversary Day)
Ken-Dogger: Hey Rex, what up?
Rex: 22 years Bro, you and the Mikster
KD: IKR, seems like a long time and then it doesn’t.
R: Huh?
KD: Well, we just don’t seem to measure it in time, we just live.
R: Well, you do know time marches on, don’t you?
KD: Yes, I do, and it doesn’t matter, I’m with the Mikster, all that matters.
R: It shows Bro…I know contentment when I see it.
KD: and to many more…
HA to the Mikster
TRAINING ATTENTIVENESS
"...Show us again Ma, we promise we'll watch attentively this time..."
Pups Memory
Ken-Dogger: Hey Poncho, why you looking over your shoulder?
Poncho: They got rid of Pujols
KD: IKR, sad day, a future HOFer just unceremoniously released.
P: IKR, he wasn’t producing, so they’re moving on.
KD: Team said it was holding back their progress, most likely that is read as profit.
P: So see why I’m looking?
KD: Why?
P: Bro, I was reviewing my progress to ensure it’s profitable.
KD: Everything isn’t about profit.
P: Tell that to those of us who love the game.
Morning Shoppers and Hunter/Killers,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Clarice, a question?
Clarice: Dogger, what about those essays?
KD: Which essays?
C: Well, teachers are gonna ask kids what they did this summer.
KD: And…
C: Students are going to write about a shopping/hunting/killing trip to the Mall.
KD: Whoa, finding their voice?
C: No, just finding commonality among victims.
DEALING WITH THE WHIRLWIND...
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Hap, what you got?
Hap: Dude, a flower, it’s for Mikster’s Mom
KD: Aww, that’s sweet…Because she’s leaving.
H: Yep, wanted her to have some smells to remember…
KD: She certainly got in a lot of sights too.
H: It didn’t seem like 3 weeks did it?
KD: Who you kidding?
H: Come on, you know it was a good visit.
KD: It was, helps me out with the whirlwind known as Mikster.
H: Amen Bro…Me too, me too.
Morning Peeps,
Ken-Dogger: Hey Bronco Billy, what up?
Bronco Billy: You remember that song you played yesterday, Johnny’s Garden?
KD: I do BeeBee
BB: Well, that line ‘and they give me peace in quiet hours’, what’s that?
KD: It’s about enjoying the floral beauty of Johnny’s Garden and finding peace there.
BB: Wow, you can find peace there?
KD: Yep, here, there, and everywhere, you just gotta be looking for it.
BB: That’s what I’m doing, looking for peace.
as Richard Pryor once said, You go down there lookin' for justice, that's what you find, JUST US...
Bernadoodles to die for..
REMEMBERING M & D
THIS FROM 2019
Ken-Dogger: Aww, you guys loving on each other?
Vito: We ARE Dude, saw your mom and dad doing this and ya know, it resonated with us
Sonya: Yea, we dig it
KD: Yea, I dig it too...
V: They do have a love story, what is it 77 years now
KD: Yep, few get there...it takes love and commitment
S: Yea, commitment for some, others just end up committed...
KD: Sad but true Sonya, sad but true...
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