Bocce (RIP)  We used to have a bocce court, but well, it's a
long story. We had to move the greenhouse and the bocce court
was the only place to move it so bye bye bocce for now. I may be
able to fit another court in so don't give up hope.  A little
history  Bocce is the Italian version of lawn bowling. The
earliest known form of the sport was a game played in the
Italian Alps, early in the Christian Era, in which stones were
tossed at a target stone--not necessarily to hit it, but to land
as close as possible to it. This was a major amusement for Roman
soldiers, who spread it through the empire. Balls were
eventually substituted for the stones and they were usually
rolled rather than tossed. Bocce, also known as boccia, derived
its name from the Vulgar Latin word for ball, bottia. Italian
immigrants brought bocce to the United States. Its original
centers of popularity were New York City and San Francisco
because of their large Italian-American populations. But, as
newer generations grew away from the sport,