April 14, 2024 (Houston, Alaska) Well here we are… mid-April in Alaska. The sun is shining and it’s warm (yes mid-40’s is very warm for us) especially after such a cold and dark winter. We have almost 15 hours of daylight right now and each day we are gaining 6 more minutes of daylight. Today our sunrise was at 6:37am and sunset is at 9:22pm. It’s hard to believe that in less than 2 weeks our night sky will go away and we won’t see stars again until mid-August. Sigh…. I will miss the stars the most. But on the flip side the midnight sun gives us our amazing summers…