Hot damn, it’s finally summer! Why is it so awesome? let us count the ways. Here, for each hour of each endless blissful day, are the 24 things we love about summer in the north. 1. GETTING A (SORT OF) TAN All winter, northerners scuttle around in the dark, cloaked in parkas. We become sun-starved: Our bodies can’t produce the “sunshine vitamin,” vitamin D, resulting in depression, obesity – even rickets (yes, it’s a real thing). Plus, we look ghastly. Our faces become cadaverous.