Earth Hour

I can successfully say we did it...we participated in Earth Hour. I had my doubts about hubby. I hadn't mentioned anything to him about it...I was going to wait till it got closer to the time...but Google did it for me. Googles version of Earth Hour and Lights out was to use a black screen on their site...anyhow...it got my hubby thinking...so I told him that I wanted us to participate.....he thought I was only asking him to have the lights out....but oh no I wanted him to shut down his computer... and have the TV off....nothing except the lights from the candles that I was going to light and the fireplace.


I gave him the 5 minute warning...he proceeded to tell me he had a few more minutes. I had all the candles lit....the fire was roaring....it was really rather romantic....all we needed was a nice bottle of wine....but since we didn't have any wine Soda and Crystal Light were the beverages of choice. It's 8:00 pm PST lights were out....hubby comes into the living room.....so now what do we do he says....I said we could play cards.....or chat.....chat he says....about what....I said tell me a story.....he couldn't think of one....the man who is full of stories couldn't think of a story....so I started in...talking about some of my life adventures...things I have done over the years....things that I have felt proud about....accomplishments...times I really enjoyed...it was while I was recanting a childhood memory that I heard this "gurring bubbling flapping" sort of noise coming from his direction, I looked over only to realized that my story was so stimulating that hubby had proceeded to fall asleep. At 8:40 he woke up and said is it time yet.....I laughed....only 20 mins to go..., it's 8:59.....hubby awakes...it's time....he grabs his lap top and starts googling....I turn on the TV, I opted to leave the rest of the lights off and candles lit....oh did I mention it had started to snow around 7:00 pm? Well by 9:00 pm it is snowing heavily...and I mean heavy, it was that wet big flakes kinda of snow.....it was pretty but hey it's the end of March we are not suppose to be getting snow!

It was 9:30 and I was in the washroom when the lights started to flicker....hmmmm. They go out momentarily then come back on....flicker again....come back on.....flicker one more time...and they are out, thank goodness I still had candles going in the washroom. Hubby got a good chuckle about me being caught in the washroom with the lights out....I told him I had candles which gave the room some ambiance....LOL. So there we were ready to settle into our routine of watching some Saturday night TV and hubby playing on his computer...but no it was not meant to be. So now what....hubby decides it was time for some dessert so off to the kitchen for him....I sit on the couch contemplating my options....I really don't have enough light to read, knit or do much of anything....I was feeling tired and had a headache so I opted to make it an early night.

I hadn't lit any lights up stairs, I generally have my night lights...but with the power out it was pitch black.....we keep a flashlight in our room just for these occasions(we get a lot of power outages here) I managed to make my way into our room, I found the flashlight on our dresser, I turn it on to help me find my way around the bed ....I get all settle in.... I hadn't been there more than maybe 5 -10mins at the most, when I heard this crash downstairs...it sounded like a candle or something had fallen over. I call out to hubby...no answer, I call again...still no answer...so with my trusty flashlight in hand I make my way downstairs...again calling out for hubby no answer. I get to the bottom of the stairs and start looking around I notice Bert who generally greets me at the bottom of the stairs is no where to be found either....I check every room in the house both for hubby and for what was the cause of the crash...I make my way back to the living room and through the window I see a light out in the shed..it's hubby. We have three of those portable shelter tents...with the heavy snow hubby was out there pushing the snow off of the tent roofs. I don't know why I didn't hear him leave the house....I generally hear everything. So now I have found hubby, but still I haven't found the source of the noise. I search some more. Finally, I find the culprit there on the floor was a candle, not lit of course....hmmm .... to strange .... I look at where the candle landed and where it came from, that was a long ways for it to fall.....I wondered how it could have fallen from the holder(which I had reinforced that morning)across the table, missed landing on the chair but behind the chair.....hmmmm....very strange........does anyone remember me telling you about the laundry soap incident, this reminds me of that incident. Hubby comes into the house we chat..he said "I thought you were going to bed"....I told him what happened...he makes spooky sounds at me and laughs....I get a blanket and curl up in the Lazy boy chair and nod off.

At 1130 the power comes back on......hubby is sound asleep on the couch.....my neck has a bit of a kink in it from the way I was sleeping in the chair....I get up to go around make sure everything is off and candles are out, I head upstairs to my bed....it's ok now I have my nightlights on....I'm a big girl now....I can do this.

So there you have it our Earth Hour......what did you do for your Earth Hour?