Earth Day Entertainment

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:23 am

How will you keep yourself entertained this evening for <A TARGET=NEW" HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Hour">Earth Hour</A> at 8:00 p.m.? Besides just turning off the lights, I will be turning off TV, computers, stereo, etc.

Then what?

djm

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:31 am

When the power goes out, we have a concert by candlelight. Non-musical friends who happened to be visiting us during a winter power outage said it was one of the most beautiful things that they had ever seen.

tansy · Post by **tansy** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:37 am

No candels or kero lamps either DJM. I am gonna sit in the cockpit of my boat with my cat, under the stars and play my pipes. Which is what I do most nights. It doesn't really apply here as I am totally solar. Just for solidarities sake, the statement of it all, I'll go dark

And I'll drink my whiskey neat, no ice from the evil fridge

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which is what I do anyway.

missy · Post by **missy** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:04 am

well, I can turn the lights, computer, etc. off.

But the TV will be ON because Xavier is playing at that time (basketball, NCAA). Since we watch very little TV anyway, our hour can be used at another time for that.

hyldemoer · Post by **hyldemoer** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:14 am

In a couple of minutes, just after I feed my vermiculture, the Mr., my mom, and I are jumping in our hybrid to drive to a Bluegrass festival for the day and evening.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:21 am

Tansy wrote:I am gonna sit in the cockpit of my boat with my cat, under the stars and play my pipes.

It will be -5°C here at 8:00 p.m. I doubt you would be sitting outside for very long, and your cat would certainly have nothing to do with you.

djm

tansy · Post by **tansy** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:30 am

It's in the high 60's here, can't beat the southern winters

If I were where you were, I'd be under the covers with the cat and the girl!

WyoBadger · Post by **WyoBadger** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:50 pm

I'm gonna celebrate by firin' up a big mess o'tires, scatterin' some noxious weeds, then buyin' me a new SUV, mud-boggin' it across some o' them there fragile wetlands down to the river, and shotgunnin' me a big mess o' whooping cranes and trumpeter swans fer dinner.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:16 pm

Tansy wrote:I'd be under the covers with the cat and the girl!

If you can't get the girl onto a boat on the south seas, you're not going to find her in a drafty old shack up in the Great White North.

djm

Ronbo · Post by **Ronbo** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:15 pm

Anybody know where there is a live satellite feed of the western hemisphere? I would love to watch the lights go out in real time.

tansy · Post by **tansy** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:13 pm

djm wrote:
Tansy wrote:I'd be under the covers with the cat and the girl!
If you can't get the girl onto a boat on the south seas, you're not going to find her in a drafty old shack up in the Great White North.

djm

She's here with me now, and I have decided to leave the 12 volt lights and pc on, Itis rainin' like crazy out, no pipin' under the stars tonight. I know the north country a bit as I lived in Montreal 2 years back in the 70's, good people and only fond memories of your country, cooold though

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:38 pm

Earth Hour? Why didn't someone mention this sooner? Drat! Now I've missed it.