I found the phone! We have a patch of "scrub" that I let go natural in our front yard. Its interesting to see what wild flowers appear. At certain points in the year its quite lovely, but most of the time its hideous ;-)

I was doing some weeding in there last Saturday and I guess it fell out of my pocket. I kind of suspected my phone was in there but just couldn't find it - so during lunch I attacked the patch with a pair of hand clippers and after about 4 wheelbarrows full of crap I found it. We had a couple of days of rain during the last week, but amazingly the phone still works. Not sure if the battery will hold a charge, we'll see.

Incidentally, this morning when I asked my daughter Clara if she had seen my phone she matter of factly explained that she had seen it in my backpack on the back porch. A rabbit had taken it and hopped into the woods. I'm glad she was mistaken.