OPPOSITE OF SUMMER
When we first arrived in Boise, our greatest difficulty of daily life (besides settling in and getting lost on all these one-way streets) was the time the sun went down. I would often take the boys out on walks, and from the angle of the sun, I would judge that it was about time to head home for dinner. When we got back, it was already 8:30! And the sun still wouldn't set for another 2 hours. The boys never wanted to go to bed at 9.
Now, I'm having the opposite problem. Now it's completely dark by about 5:30. To exacerbate the problem, Ryan has been attending some professional training courses every night. So he comes home from work at 4, eats some dinner, then heads off to class. Without the usual break from the boys, and eating dinner at 4, I keep thinking it must be about bedtime, just to glance at a clock and see that it's only 6!
It's also hard, because even when Ryan gets home at the usual hour, by the time we're done with dinner, there's no more sun to go on walks or play outside.
And to think, it's only going to get worse! I'm curious to see just how early the sun will set. Do moms turn on the porch light so their kids can see when they get home from school?
I suppose people get used to the drastic shifts in amount of daylight. After all, the entire Northern swath of the country, not to mention Canada in its entirety, deal with this all the time, and I haven't heard anyone complain about it before. Except Alaskans, but who can blame them?