It is very cold outside this morning, I can tell already, even though I haven’t yet left the apartment. Yesterday, in the afternoon, A. and I went out and retrieved the car from the parking ramp, so that we could deliver some items of clothing, and an old folding table and chairs, to a donation center at the Salvation Army, and the weather was very cold then too, with the wind blowing in our faces as we walked the couple blocks to the place where we keep the vehicle.