Can I use today's 70-and-sunny as a retroactive excuse for not posting last Friday's links?  I think I shall...

Alone among Newton's painting contractors, Catchlight employs a Director of Operations who so cherishes the onset of warmer weather that he's created a mental hierarchy of the season's important markers:

1. Opening Day.  This is the beginning of spring.

2. Exterior Day.  Today...the first ask no questions give no quarter beautiful day of the year.  We should all be outside today, brushes in hand.

3. Porch Day.  The first night you fire up the grill, open a beer, and have some tasty evening vittles on your back deck, or porch, or steps.  Wherever...it's sunny, you're outside, and life is good.

4. May 1.  The official first day of summer.