Lots of work this weekend cleaning up dust, dirt, and debris from last week’s series of storms. Fortunately, we ended up with only a little over 2 inches of rain spread across four days, so most of my clean-up involved sweeping debris from the neighbors’ trees that ended up in our pool. Not that far away from us, however, to the south in Chandler, and to the north and east in Gilbert and Scottsdale they experienced much more rain - as much as 4 or 5 inches - and I saw a lot of wind damage in my travels. For some reason, the western end of Gilbert where we lives always seems to escape the worst. Perhaps it has something to do with the geography around here…

And now it’s the East Coast’s turn. Good luck with that.

Two great NFL playoff games today. For a while there I really thought the Jets had a chance to stun the Colts.

And folks in The Big Easy must have been going nuts during that Vikings game. The Vikes kind of collapsed there towards the end of the game, that Favre interception was a killer. But I’m glad, and you can bet I’ll be rooting for the Saints two weeks’ hence.

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Pool temp: 51 degrees