After a week away visiting family, we drove back between storms to several inches of snow. This is unusual in the foothills, and exciting for this native Californian. But last week I learned why my husband, a native New Yorker, isn’t excited about snow. We had twenty-seven inches on the ground, power out for forty hours, and more snow on the way. Trees and power lines were down all over the county. This storm is almost over, but an atmospheric river is headed our way. It’s very exciting, but a hardship for many, and disrupts my schedule. Life does that.