We’re having our first snow of the year. Original forecasts were for the snow to stop early this morning with 1 – 3″ accumulation. We’ve had at least 4″ so far, and it looks like it will snow most of the day. They say we could get 8″ total. It’s certainly enough that Danita and I stayed home today. We missed our Bob Evans breakfast, but we might don our boots this afternoon and walk to a Long Horn dinner, thanks to Mom’s gift card. It’s plenty good enough and an easy walk.

I feel pleased with myself. I was able to repair my Sony STR-VX22 stereo. It was no big deal, but I was happy to get it working. This vintage unit is circa 1982. This was the second repair. The first was around 1985 or so. It still sounds great. Way to go Sony. https://classicreceivers.com/sony-str-vx22

We spent a lot of time planning the details of our Italy trip in August-September. The only thing we had in place was the air tickets over and back and the cruise. We’re flying over early and staying late to visit Florence, Vienna, Pisa, and get a couple more days in Rome. We found our first choice hotel in Vienna was full and some other hotels are selling their rooms at a good pace. The cruise is now totally full. We’ve planned Florence, Pisa, and Venice. Danita is nailing down the last details of our extra days in Rome and looking at what we want to do when we dock at the other cities. I’ll reserve hotel rooms today.

We had a neighborhood party yesterday and won’t have another one until Saturday. It’s a tough life, but somebody has to live it.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.