We got our first hard frost last night. I noticed a lot of water dripping off the roof over the catio this morning, so I climbed up on the roof to find it covered with thick, wet ice, and the hose to the swamp cooler split and spraying water. The split was close to where the hose connects to the swamp cooler, making it easy to cut the hose and reconnect it to the cooler to stop the leak. Otherwise, I would have had to change my clothes, crawl under the house to turn off the water to the cooler, clean up and change my clothes again (I turned off the water to the cooler after I got home this evening).  After I fixed the hose, I got my camera and took photos of the balloons before heading off to work.

Although it got cold enough to freeze a half inch sheet of ice on the roof, frost the top of my car, and the leaves on all the plants, most of the plants were not showing much cold damage tonight, and the zipper spider was actively repairing her web when I checked on her this evening.