Earth Hour at our place

Tonight was Earth Hour, an originally Australian, now global, initiative to get everyone to turn off their lights (and nonessential appliances, I would assume) for one hour. The object of the game is not only to save power but to raise awareness of the issues around climate change, and to nudge people into getting involved.

At our place, we dutifully lit a couple of candles, and turned all the lights and most of the appliances off at the wall. We ate cookies. Houston and I had a beer (Cooper's Extra Strong Ale, which we recommend). We goofed around and talked and even sang a little bit. We watched the amazing thunderstorm that was flashing and crashing all around us, and which delivered a bonus of hail. We ate more cookies nom nom nom. (Yes, we made the Cookie Monster noises.) The hour seemed to pass quite quickly.

Then, when the hour was accomplished, we turned the lights back on, turned the computers back on, resumed our work.

It's nice when the people in a family like each other enough to consider it a treat to turn off the computers and other media and goof around and eat cookies together.

Nom nom nom!