As the stars of Orion glimmer in the Western horizon, saying, "spring has come to Saskatchewan!", the absence of the sun also suggests that היום חמשה ימים לעומר, it's the fifth day of the Omer.

A story: Once upon a time, there was a little boy who loved to read. He read the encyclopedia for fun, and everything else he could get his hands on. One day his mother told him that he had to take a day off from reading, because she was afraid he would hurt his eyes from all the reading he did. The little boy tried as hard as he could not to read, but that evening they went swimming with some friends, and then they went to the public library. The library of all places! So the poor little boy had to sit glumly in the middle of the room, trying his hardest not read the myriad thousand words encamped about him. He accidentally made eye contact with a sign on the wall, and felt guilty about reading it. What a trying day it was. He eagerly awaited tomorrow.