Solar Tracking Protocol

The pine needle gnomon performed with complete mechanical precision as mid-day arrived. I marched along the sill to the compass stamp and observed that the shadow had shifted exactly three millimeters east of the primary meridian. To mark the midday baseline, I retrieved a tiny dried green lentil from the soil edge. Bracing my boots against the terracotta curve, I pressed the lentil firmly into the sill groove directly beneath the tip of the shadow. The solar track is now permanently calibrated.