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Joop's Dog Log - Monday June 21

Summer is here. I saw it coming.
June 21. Summer solstice, the longest day, the maximum of daylight.
After today our days will get shorter again and our nights longer.
I hope the pigeons and crows know that too.
They wake me up early every morning when they sit on our roof.
They`re a real noisy bunch and they start their cooing and croaking before 6 AM!

Last night thousands of new age humans and druids and hippie humans celebrated
the solstice at Stonehenge in England, a 4.000 years old sun temple with big stones.
Every June 21 the sun rises directly over Stonehenge`s `Friar`s Heel stone`
when viewed from the central Altar Stone.
This is the best I could find around our town: the remains of a prehistoric `hunebed`.
It`s even older than Stonehenge. I showed you another hunebed a few months ago
( http://www.pbase.com/image/26629086 ).
But when I climb on this one on June 21 and I follow the lines in the stone that I`m
standing on, I can see the sun right above the biggest top stone to the right. Bingo!
Happy solstice to all of you.

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Henk Binnendijk29-Jun-2004 12:58

la_vie_en_rouge @ 2004-06-21 02:18 said:
Happy Summer Solstice to you and your humans! Enjoy the lovely, long, summer days. We have lots of hippies in Seattle, too. They rode their bicycles naked through Fremont for the Solstice parade. ;-)
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maximillion @ 2004-06-21 02:18 said:
Happy Summer Solstice to you and yours! We do not have these wonderful arrangements in the US, but my mom has visited some of them in Scotland and England. They sound very cool!
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bravesfan @ 2004-06-21 02:23 said:
JOOOOOP!! long time no see :)
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bravesfan @ 2004-06-21 02:23 said:
you look wonderful as usual
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dullemen @ 2004-06-21 02:37 said:
Goedemorgen Joop en Henk. Ik wens jullie ook een mooie en lange zomer toe. Joop wat sta je hoog op de drentse kei,je bent ook nergens bang voor he. Schitterende omgeving zo te zien. Allemaal een fijne dag met veel zon. Groetjes DIEN.
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lycos @ 2004-06-21 03:45 said:
Goedemorgen Joop, ik ben ook weer terug, hopend dat het het allemaal blijft doen :)
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soundofsilence @ 2004-06-21 05:04 said:
Stonehenge...I remember a LP-album cover of...wow heavy Alzheimer attack...Ten years After? Alvin Lee at the e-guitar..?? Güsterfields are obviously still in deep hibernation and I DO NOT WANT SHORTER DAYS WITHOUT HAVING HAD ANY SUMMER TIME!
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roomwithaview @ 2004-06-21 05:25 said:
Joop - how wise of you to get up on the big ancient stones for Solstice. Be sure to howl at the moon as soon as you can too.
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ea @ 2004-06-21 05:31 said:
Happy Solstice to you too... you made my day, showing me this special place, Joop. This house is actually more orange than pink. I found it yesterday. For some reason, I`d never noticed it before even though I`d driven past it many times.
P.S. to Maximillian -- we do too have lots of these wonderful arrangements in the U.S. They are Native American Indian mounds -- check out the Serpent`s Mound in Ohio for starters, not to mention Arizona. Actually they`re all over the place -- at least until Wal-mart bulldozes them down.
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chocodog @ 2004-06-21 08:23 said:
its so great!!! Be careful!!! Kisses
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wynd @ 2004-06-21 10:02 said:
Happy Solstice to you too, Joop! Actually we do more celebrating with a party and all for Winter Solstice, when the days start getting longer. You look like you could move that big stone with your head. I think with your superior brain you might move it just by thinking! I got a raccoon last night, mom is very proud of me. -Sarah.
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ann279 @ 2004-06-21 10:10 said:
Well aren`t you a clever dog to figure out things astronomical. I know you love to climb on those stones...and maybe that`s what they are after all...the stones of the dog climbers. Ancient dogs, Joop, your ancestors. Wonder what they might have thought about seeing you up there.
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ayla_lab @ 2004-06-21 11:02 said:
Beautiful shot! Joop is so cute! :o)
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schulze @ 2004-06-21 11:06 said:
Hi Joop! So you are enjoying your Summer.... good for you boy! Here in Brazil it is Winter now, but the temperature in Rio never goes lower than 18 degrees celsious!
Iam so happy that you will take a few weeks off and go to Norway with your humans! You all deserve a break, and I can imagine how many beautiful pictures they`ll take of you there... Have a wonderful week! Oliver * Co.
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soundofsilence @ 2004-06-21 14:06 said:
Moin again, just printed the D.L. text...the chords are already integrated...fantastic!
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knuddelbacke @ 2004-06-21 17:36 said:
Joop, it`s never boring with you. You have always interesting views to all what surrounds you ... and to your private `Stonehenge`. Happy Solstice Joop! :) Hardy & the K-pack
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jakes_world @ 2004-06-21 19:44 said:
so cool, to have something that old, near. I know we have a few old places here.. but not close to us, and not in nature.. have to be tourist traps here it seems
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wynd @ 2004-06-21 21:32 said:
Hey Joopyjoop, it was a five minute fight but I never gave up. The nerve of him, showing up in my backyard! I fought him all around the back yard, then to the front and out in the street, where I got him with my superior spine-crushing jaws. Mom wouldn`t let me have him, and he lay there for a while until she put him in a bag for the garbage. She always takes my prizes! (except the mice and the squirrels) -Sarah.
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pelapaz @ 2004-06-21 22:32 said:
Hi Joop !! You´re the Happiest Dog In The World :D
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mr_walker @ 2004-06-21 22:56 said:
happy solstice, joop, of *course you would be in tune with these things : )
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Guest 21-Jun-2004 18:48
Have a great Midsummer Joop!
Yvonne21-Jun-2004 07:45
Happy Summer Soltice to you too Henk & nice to see you do have sunshine! Its our winter solstice down in Aussie...