Which way is South?

These are my dogs. The Catahoola is as hyper as a living thing can be without actually spontaneously combusting. Today I left them alone in the house from 0900 to 1900. I did this with the utmost trepidation. I expected to return to a trashed and mutilated house, but in fact as far as I can see nothing was destroyed. I was pathetically grateful to them.
I was gone without them because J had a rental car over the week-end and she wanted to put some miles on it. We went to the Zendo and our post meditation conversation was quite interesting. About violence. Deep Buddhism looks on violence as simply a part of the all that is nothing, but if you take a pragmatic step to compassion as a way to live, then obviously violence can be looked on as undesirable, so how do we handle it? Defuse it, J said. Chewing on this knotty subject we continued on to one of those magic places that I hope exist quietly all over the country, an undiscovered piece of heaven. The water was high so we waded across to find petroglyphs on the flat rocks along the river. We kept meeting hunters and friends of our guide in this lonely place. J found an arrow like glyph within a half circle, and she just needed to know what direction the arrow pointed to make the whole thing make sense astronomically. A sturdy hunter with a GPS and two compasses showed up but he had a hard time figuring out where the arrow pointed. Eventually he decided it pointed SE which bore out J's theories about the sign. We met three genial potbellied bearded men who were friends of our guide who is a sculpter. One of these Santas out of uniform had a dog like my Catahoola. She was nearly four years old and still running in ever accelerating circles just for the fun of it. Oh dear.
When we got back to the car the sun had just gone below the horizon and the great Hunter's Moon was rising in the (I think) East. J had left the car's lights on. It would not start. We had no jumper cables. Our guide called her daughter to bring jumper cables. It started to get cold and we had wet feet. After ten minutes or so J tried the car again and it started. We had to wait a half hour for our guide's daughter to let her know we didn't need the cables. We stopped at the big casino for coffee and made our way home. A good day.