Sunrise

 It hasn't been above freezing for a couple of weeks.  Tonight the temps are going to drop below zero.  Decided it was a good time to take the painter's tape off Mjolnir's door.  I'd put it on in September when the fly count inside the apartment had begun to rise.  It worked - sort of.  Did have 400 that got in but that's way better than the 3,000 flies from the year before.  If there were flies hibernating in between the door and jamb, they would be very lethargic and when I brushed them outside they wouldn't have enough energy to make it back inside the building.  The tape came off fairly easily and I did find a few flies stuck to it.  When I opened up the door a confetti shower of flies fell down.  I used the car's snow brush to remove the flies still clinging to the door and jamb.   A lot of flies though, in truth, not as many as I'd feared.   The apartment temp is at 60 degrees right now and some of the flies that fell on the floor were beginning to wriggle and slowly move.  I got the broom, swept them up, and tossed them out into the snow before they could crawl away or take flight.  I'd been entering/exiting Mjolnir through it's garage doors since I'd taped the other shut.   Now I could leave the door opener in Jormungandr.  I didn't like keeping it in the basket near the front door in case it got knocked about and opened the garage door by mistake - OK in the summer, not so good in the winter.  Since I was outside anyway I walked over to Sleipnir and did my monthly watering of the flowers overwintered in there.  Checked that the building's inside temp was maintaining at 45 degrees. As I walked back to the house, I admired the practically full moon rising just above the belt of Venus.  Must be cold enhances all of the colors in the sky.