Harvest Moon

 

We had a frost warning last month and I moved all of the potted plants off the deck then.  It didn't happen but tonight the forecast was for not just a frost but a hard freeze.  Walked around the place to see if there were things that needed to be taken in. 

• The rain barrel.  I'd disconnected it from the gutter earlier.  Had been using it to water flowers so there was only a couple of inches left to dump.  Carried it into Sleipnir.  Will refill it there and use it through the winter.  
• The rain gauge.  Still had about a half inch of water in it from earlier this week.  Emptied that and stashed it away in Sleipnir.
• The gnome.  Have a hand-painted gnome that sits hidden in by the flowers on the deck.  He's looked a bit forlorn since the flowers went.  From my early experiments w/ plaster figurines left out in the elements, I know he could easily stay out one winter but tucked him in Sleipnir along w/ his plants.
• I still had 3 planters and one pot by the front door.  Added those to the ones in Sleipnir.
• The cacti in front of Mjolnir can handle a frost but maybe not a hard freeze.  Moved them inside  Mjolnir (warm but not as humid as Sleipnir.)

I believe we really will get at least a frosting tonight.  Whip and I didn't do our nightly constitutional until well after sunset.   The sky was clear all the way to the moon.  This 'super' Harvest Moon reflected brightly off the solar panels.   Moonlight seems bright to us because our eyes adapt to the dark but it's not strong enough to generate electricity from the solar panels.  Just in case, I checked the on-line graphs of their energy output tonight.  Nothing.