A White Thanksgiving?!

The girls woke us up this morning with frantic shouts of, "it's snowing, it's snowing!"  Yes, winter has started here in Switzerland.  When I look at weather.com (which I do obscessively) it is getting rather monotonous...

You see this every single day. 

Luckily it is hovering around and above freezing, so we have not been inconvenienced yet.   The girls asked if school was canceled.  Not any more ladies, this is a new way of life.  I got salt for our sidewalk as insurance that there will be no significant accumulation. (Hey, that insurance worked in North Carolina, why not here?)

We had a break from precipitation this afternoon, and I decided to tackle yet more leaves in the front yard.  They never dry, they only decompose, smothering your grass.  Takes about five passes with a rake to dislodge the muddy, leafy goo and transfer it, one rake full at a time, to my trusty moving box. It took me one hour to do the front walkway area (approx 250 square feet)  Do I hear violins playing?

Switzerland is famous for working efficiently, so I couldn't understand why they used brooms resembling witches brooms for all of the sweeping.  Our house came with two of them.  Here are the girls riding the latest version of the "Nimbus 2010". 

These brooms rock!  I need one when we return to the states.  Note also my trusted leaf box and muddy boots.  We are really taking this "being green" thing to heart using this poor box over and over. 

We wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.  Unfortunately it is not a holiday for us, but I thing Tom is going to subscribe to NFL online, and watch some football tommorrow.  We'll eat too much and obscess about holiday shopping in honor of everyone in the States.