first frost

first frost of the winter and i woke to the sound of the neighbour scraping the ice off their car and thought, "oh, great. another 5 months of being woken by this sound." (yes - we are 3 floors up, and yes i can hear that scraping loud enough to wake me. there are gaps 1cm big around the balcony door in the bedroom.)
but it's a lovely morning - crisp blue sky, little wisps of cloud - a bit cold, the thermometer in here is only reading 17.7degrees. i wonder how nymph will fare over the winter as his tank water temperature plummets to 10 / 12 degrees.

that's all i wanted to say. it's almost 9 - time to start writing for the day.