Pointers

 So, as I wrote the other day, I have an arctic fox (not a real one) positioned in ta flower bed with its nose pointing to the hole in the lawn where I stick the whirligig clothes dryer- which quickly gets overgrown and hard to find- and it's a great idea so long as the fox stays in position....

This morning it had shifted. And if a pointer is the least bit out of true it becomes not only useless but positively misleading. I probably moved it myself by mistake when I was cutting the grass. Or perhaps some animal did it- possibly the real fox who comes in the garden- sleek, rangy, beautiful beast.  I found myself down on my knees, feeling around in the grass.....

But then I remembered that the other day I installed a back-up system. The fox now sits on a broken paving slab and the corner of the slab is also aligned on the hole and it'll take more than a nudge from a mowing machine or vulpine snout to shift that. 

I took a reading from the slab and found the hole at once. 

Pointers

 So, as I wrote the other day, I have an arctic fox (not a real one) positioned in ta flower bed with its nose pointing to the hole in the lawn where I stick the whirligig clothes dryer- which quickly gets overgrown and hard to find- and it's a great idea so long as the fox stays in position....

This morning it had shifted. And if a pointer is the least bit out of true it becomes not only useless but positively misleading. I probably moved it myself by mistake when I was cutting the grass. Or perhaps some animal did it- possibly the real fox who comes in the garden- sleek, rangy, beautiful beast.  I found myself down on my knees, feeling around in the grass.....

But then I remembered that the other day I installed a back-up system. The fox now sits on a broken paving slab and the corner of the slab is also aligned on the hole and it'll take more than a nudge from a mowing machine or vulpine snout to shift that. 

I took a reading from the slab and found the hole at once.