Good morning on this very rainy Gingerbread House Day. (Yes, it’s a thing.)

When your full-time job is building gingerbread houses, there comes a moment when the joy of baking sheet after sheet of the spicy dough wears off.

For Jon Lovitch, that moment usually arrives during late spring or summer.

“That’s when I want to take a gingerbread house and throw it against the wall,” he said. “It’s really hard to feel Christmassy then.”

Mr. Lovitch spends all year creating GingerBread Lane, a nearly 6,300-pound edible village for the New York Hall of Science in Queens, which he has lovingly recreated and expanded every year since 2012.