Andy DP Daily Download of Diatribic Detritus

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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

Bonus quote because its funny:

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

E. B. White

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"False" Spring is appropriate: tomorrow's high expected in the 30's.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

Ernest Hemingway

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Seton Hall won its first round NIT Game against St Joseph's (PA) last night.  Coincidentally the ladies play St Joseph's (PA) tonight at 1900 on ESPN+.

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

Paul Pierce

For your sports watching schedule: The SHU men play North Texas: Saturday ▪️ March 23 ▪️ 11:30 AM ▪️ ESPN2 ▪️ @ "Historic" Walsh Gym.

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Having problems posting stuff on Facebook.  All I can figure out is some sort of major change is coming/  Here's my post

Blossom by blossom the Spring begins.

A.C. Swinburne

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We're in the middle of a "winter/spring" storm until later today.  Five to seven inches predicted.  Love the Northeast !!  This is why the snow blower is still in the garage and ready to go.

Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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To acknowledge yesterday's anywhere from 8 inch to 19 inch snowfall:

Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

Warren Buffett

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In appreciation of the "warmer" weather:

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

John J. Geddes

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Looking foolish does the spirit good.

John Updike

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Day two in Skowhegan. Snow melting like hangbusters. I came for the eclipse, staying for the mud.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

Rumi

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You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

Denzel Washington

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There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

Dean Young

Daily Maine Weather update:  The rain is still falling, but expected to end this afternoon. The Skowhegan area has been blessed with two inches.  Bonus weather surprise:  snow in the forecast for Wednesday and Thursday.  Icing on the weather cupcake:  my driveway is mostly mud right now.  Because of the rain and temps, the snow has been steadily receding.  

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

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Maintaining an eclipse theme:

The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

Muhammad Ali

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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley

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The trouble with the last snowfall of the season is that you can't be sure.

Doug Larson

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Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person

Sylvia Plath

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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

Anton Chekhov

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The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

Keith Waterhouse

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That *&^%* storm is finally going to end tomorrow. Meanwhile, we're getting flurries.  Monday is expected to be close to 60 degrees.  On a rare note, I found a "two fer" quote.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Golda Meir

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To commemorate the end of the (*&^% rainy/snow/sleet/drizzle and whatever else) weather.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

Toni Morrison

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Eclipse Day !!

In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

John Milton

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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

J. K. Rowling

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Maybe when I was in college...

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet

Lord Byron

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A Spring haiku from the best:

Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.

Matsuo Basho

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Despite the forecast, live like it's Spring.

Lilly Pulitzer