It's raining again.  Sob.* 

            Hard frost last night;  I have to get a new max/min thermometer, I like gloating over the news it brings.**  But Wolfgang's roof was white when hellhounds and I ambled out to go back to the cottage*** and I drove home very gently.  And then we had a lovely blue, sunny hurtle this morning† and I spent most of the afternoon bent over the computer and ignoring the increasing darkness outside the window †† and when I took hellhounds out before tower...