Snow!

One thing you may not know about Tom:  he always manages to be on a surf trip when it snows.  This has happened more times than I can count over the years.  He goes to FL or San Diego or Costa Rica to surf, I get to shovel snow.

When he left a week ago to go back to NJ, then to FL for work (and surfing), it never even crossed my mind that we would get snow in Italy!  People tell me they get a little now and then, not often, and not here because we are on the sea.  I didn't really take anyone seriously earlier this week when they said it might snow this weekend.  Then, at about 5 pm yesterday, it started coming down.  By about 2 am there was enough to make a snowman (I know this because I woke to the sound of students making one outside my door) and this morning we have a healthy 5 or 6 inches on everything.

No one even has a snow shovel here, though, because this is pretty unusual, so I won't be doing any of that today!  I'll just be walking around, enjoying the castles in the snow. . .