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Playing with A. in the back yard today, we inspected the birdbath. There was ice floating in it. It had originally been a ring beucase of the central island, but the sun had fallen on it unevenly so it was a precisely shaped crescent. I picked it up nad showed it to A. He immediately recognized that it was the moon which, he said, had come down from the sky last night. Now, the Roman natural historian Pliny the Elder does say that frosts and freezes are a cold liquid that is emmitted by the moon during certain astrolonomical configurations. But of course A doesn't know anything about that. He took the ice crescent and insisted on placing it in the trailer of his tractor (his 'trunk')as a talisman. Long melted by now.