Good day today. Finished the multi-day cleanup after strong winds 3-4 days ago – pulled limbs out of the pool, chopped up and hauled away big limbs that fell onto the property, and finally, finally got all the crud off the driveway. Limbs, leaves, tree seeds/pods, dust – it was all an inch deep along a hundred yards of driveway. Lotta work. Then I finished replacing a huge, heavy original gate to the backyard. It was a custom size (non-standard today) and weighs about 100 pounds – they built them heavy back in the day. Over the years it just pulled itself off its hinges, so there really wasn’t any way to repair it. I replaced it with a resizable metal frame from Home Depot plus redwood planks and 2x4s. It worked well.

All that work was after I watched UK beat LSU in a tense morning SEC game (morning in Socal). We kicked off the SEC tourney for the first time ever (a dubious honor), and won a good one. LSU played tough. Now we play every day, four more days, as long as we keep winning. Beat Missouri tomorrow and we get the honor of facing Florida again on Friday. Yikes.

Tomorrow I head off to Borrego again, this time to play a couple of days worth of golf at beautiful Rams Hill. Really like that course, and it’s been a while. Bonus for the weekend, my golf buddies and I are staying at La Casa del Zorro, a cool desert resort. Should be a great weekend.

Then back to Louisville on Sunday for an extended stay. It’s starting to feel like spring.