Stonehenge
We went to Stonehenge last weekend with the Potunkey crew. We were hosted to a delicious Easter dinner by Pop Potunkey, Dave's dad.
Here are the pics of Stonehenge:
Then, the next day we went to the coast, which is in the other direction from Pop Potunkey's house. The thing about living in a tiny island country is that you can go to the ocean whenever you want. Not as good as having a Lake right in your own city with 37 beaches throughout, but nice just the same.
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The hair is fab!
Megan,
Here's a coincidence.
While you were visiting Stonehenge, my friend Dan, your brother Tyler and I were moving boulders around in our front yard. I had three boulders delivered to our house on a big flatbed truck. The truck had a crane. The driver lowered the boulders off at the curb and then left. I forgot that the stone yard does not do any "placing", you have to move your own stones.
I soon discovered the biggest rock weighs about as much as a piano. I didn't know how was going to be able to move them where I wanted them to be.
Then I remembered a TV special I saw about Stonehenge. Part of the special was about an engineer who has a theory on how the Stonehenge builders moved those big stones. It wasn't Martians(Marty-ans?). He thinks they did it all with levers. He demonstrated the theory on by actually moving a cement equivalent of one of the sarsens.
The idea is pretty basic. Two crews line up on either side of a monolith. They all have log levers stuck under the stone, their levers rest on log fulcrums laid on the ground. On command everybody pushes down on their levers and the stone rises. Everbody pulls back all together in one direction and the stone advances in the opposite direction; exactly the same principle as oars rowing a boat.
We tried this method on a small scale with our relatively pip squeak boulders. It worked quite well-- considering our inexperience.
Rowing is definitely a technology people of that time would have known. I think this engineer may have solved an ancient mystery with this theory.
you look so European Meg! Wow, you two have really gone native. I bet I won't even understand your accent when you guys return to the colonies.
Seriously, the haircut is hot.
Oh Yeah, I cut my hair a few weeks ago. Thanks guys!
Looking good.
I was disappointed in Stonehenge. Mostly because of how removed you are from everything. There are a bunch of rock circles spread throughout the countryside. I went to Averbury. You can walk right up to the rocks and get a good perspective on how everything was for those building the monument.
I like how you guys are at Stonehendge yet it is your fabulous locks that are the most impressive thing in your picture. Kudos to your hair. I was kind of pround of how long mine was getting, but now I have to hold off posting any pictures of it until I look better than you. Dang it!
Hey, on the beach picture: is that guy in the center left smoking a hookah? Or am I just imagining things? Those crazy Brits.
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