tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17982022984072472512024-03-12T17:39:37.240-07:00Basset BlogsNathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-59334901416985208872014-04-17T15:54:00.003-07:002014-04-17T15:57:25.156-07:00Bassets and Friends on Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester, MA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-53726694315678865882014-03-21T17:32:00.001-07:002014-03-21T17:35:12.499-07:00Letter: Canine cooperation at Good Harbor Beach<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">March 19, 2014
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Canine cooperation at Good Harbor Beach
Gloucester Daily Times </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">To the editor:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Perhaps it was because, for the first day in a very long time, the season felt like New England (and not Newfoundland) last Saturday, as hundreds gathered with their canine companions for a mass celebration of sea, sun and sky at Gloucester’s glorious Good Harbor Beach.
I have brought my basset hounds here for many years and I cannot recall a happier, more amiable occasion as people and dogs of every imaginable shape, size, breed, age and disposition ran, walked, waved, strolled and jogged harmoniously along the sand, (and occasionally into the water) for a much-needed relief from an unreasonable and dispiriting winter that continues to stretch all of our patience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Perhaps it is this sort of respite that reminds us of that which is truly beautiful and bountiful in our area, and sometimes how often we take for granted that which is rare, and sometimes fleeting – that which we need to preserve and take responsibility to sustain.
Perhaps that is why, on this particular day, I saw not one dog mess left behind as owners patiently picked up after their finest friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Perhaps this is why fences have been erected at Good Harbor to protect the dwindling dunes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But perhaps this Saturday was actually a souvenir how of how happily humans and animals and nature can, and should, coexist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> NATHANIEL S JOHNSON
Rockport </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><img alt="GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA" src="http://static.cnhi.zope.net/gloucestertimes/images/gloucestertimes_logo.jpg" /> </span>Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-26659072036094790482014-02-11T15:09:00.000-08:002014-02-11T18:07:29.028-08:00A fleeting momentThis afternoon during our last evening walk up High Street, a man I had not seen in the neighborhood for awhile, crossed the street to greet Homer and Cletus, explaining how much he has enjoyed watching them playing in our yard, sunning in the car hatch, and greeting passersby. He then reached out, shook my hand and said "I shall miss them," walked back across the street, got into his car, waved, and and drove off.Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-75698357637882474312014-02-10T14:20:00.002-08:002014-02-10T14:20:21.799-08:00Springtime on the deck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dexter (fg), Cletus and Henry 4/9/2011Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-85704297400568478642014-02-09T16:14:00.000-08:002014-02-09T16:14:05.965-08:00Homer & Cletus - Brotherly Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-58631336638192153422014-02-07T11:40:00.001-08:002014-02-07T11:40:09.296-08:00Back atcha, Cletus!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-24427209311994472412014-02-06T14:29:00.003-08:002014-02-06T14:29:30.298-08:00Best Friends (Basset endorsed)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-1448414275560555012014-02-06T07:50:00.005-08:002014-02-06T07:50:47.297-08:00Twain on Dogs and Heaven<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">- Letter to W. D. Howells, April 2, 1899</span></span>Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-34816745307298900822014-02-05T18:38:00.001-08:002014-02-05T18:38:06.225-08:00Basset Gladiators (Homer & Cletus)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-28729899194753292312014-02-05T18:29:00.003-08:002014-02-05T18:29:30.524-08:00Presley "Hound Dog" on Ed Sullivan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Elvis Presley performed "Hound Dog" on The Ed Sullivan Show, October 28th, 1956. This was Elvis' second appearance on Ed Sullivan.</span></span>Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-26068116256626439322014-02-05T16:23:00.003-08:002014-02-05T16:37:24.863-08:00Mark Twain on a starving dog<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 18px;">“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.” </span></span><br />
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Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-66078176466934195772014-02-05T15:11:00.002-08:002014-02-05T16:25:53.603-08:00Let it snow!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nathaniel Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08932544884532251068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798202298407247251.post-30738021003125525402014-02-04T16:32:00.000-08:002014-02-05T16:36:12.439-08:00Homeward Bound<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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