Longest Day of the Year

Today is the summer solstice, the first day of summer, and the longest day of the year. For us here in Juneau, that means our sunrise was at 3:51am, and the sunset tonight will be at 10:08, giving us an 18 hour, 16 minute, and 38 second day. That's 5 seconds longer than yesterday. Tomorrow, we start losing daylight again, starting with a 3 second shorter day, and losing progressively more time each day until December 21, where we are at the shortest day of the year, when the sun will rise at 8:45am, and set at 3:07pm, giving us a 6 hour, 22 minute, 25 second day. What a huge blessing that the power problems with the avalanche happened as we were heading into spring and summer, so we had much less need for lights, and were able to conserve huge amounts of electricity. The power company reported that Juneau as a whole conserved energy, so that our intake was almost half what it normally would have been. In our home, we used about half the electricity we normally do, which made us feel great when our bill came! However, now that we're back on the normal power supply, we're enjoying an occasional light when the weather outside is still gloomy, as it so often is, living in a temperate rainforest. So, today, when "the sun is shining, the tank is clean, and we are getting out of ....the tank is clean!!!" (that's from Finding Nemo). The sun is shining, hopefully for all 18 hours today, there's a blue sky, with little white clouds, and we are hoping to enjoy every second!!!! What are you going to do with the longest day of the year?