Life on Coal Creek Farm with No TV!

Who misses TV?

"TV?  What's it taste like?"

"I'm just going over to Ramone's to check on his cable, uh, I meant cattle!"

Who needs TV?

"Seriously Mom, remember when we used to watch TV?  It seem like years ago.  I'm so bored."

Life is pretty sweet and quiet.

Photography graciously provided by my sweet friend at All Astonishment.

Computer, Capri's and Countdown to No TV in June

My computer is broken.  So I have wait by the door from the time I wake up until Clay comes home ten hours later.  I now know what a dog goes through being left home alone with nothing to do but stare out the window for his master to return.  By the time Clay gets home I'm ready to pounce on him, rip his bag off his shoulder and get my fix from his computer.  I might even run a few circles around the kitchen island until he yells at me to, "Settle down!"  It's not pretty and neither are the Capri pants I'm wearing.  

For the past three days I've put on decent clothes in the morning only to change into my ugly Capri pants a couple hours later.  Why?  Because I keep thinking I'm going to paint my dining room.  Har har har har!  And so it goes.

Hey!  I did put some time into stapling chicken wire to the chicken run today.  I needed something to help me get through the day.

No TV month is just around the corner.  If I was a really "with it" blogger, I'd make one of those nifty buttons and have everyone stick it up their...uh, wait, I mean stick it on their blogs.  But, I'm not.  So, if you want to join us in turning off the boob-tube..why do people call it a boob-tube?  Just typing boob-tube makes me uncomfortable and blush a bit.  Moving on, if you want to join us then please do. 

Here's our rules.

1.  Turn off the TV

2. Don't turn on the TV

3. Unplug the TV

4. Don't use computer as if it is a TV

5. Don't repair Mom's computer, because she will huddle in the office with four children around her watching Youtube videos and try to rectify that it is educational.

6. Make appointment to repair Mom's computer on July 1st at 0900 hours. 

7. Don't let your children beg to go to a friends house just so they can watch TV.  

8. Computer games are considered TV. 

9. Slap yourself in the face and asks why you torture yourself like this every year to start off the summer?  Answer yourself by kicking your big flabby butt or punching your gelatinous gut.

10. Go outside.  

Unplugged

No TV in June!!!!

It's as much like coming off a drug as I could ever imagine. This is our fourth or fifth year of unplugging the boob-tube for the entire month of June.

Why? It's much too early in the month for me to rationally answer that question because, God help me, I just want to sit down at night and watch a movie!

Seriously, if you want my maternally mature answer then; because it's summer and we don't need to be sitting in front of a television numbing our brains to the sounds and sights that Hollywood demands that we embrace. Nor do my children need to sit on their butts and become robotic-like warriors of all things Playstation.

June 1st was the hardest day to get through, especially for Clay. Every time his phone rang he heard, "I'm soooo bored! I have nothing to do. When are you coming home?" The fifth time I called he asked, "Aren't you the one that started the whole no TV thing? Yes, you are! Now live with your decision and stop calling me!"

What do we do instead? We read, talk, play outside, watch the bats come out at night, garden, call the cousins, call the grandparents, beg for people to come over, whine a little, wrestle, nag, eat and dream. And my children learn how to play......without anything that plugs into a wall.

Join us if you want, tell me how it goes and what you do instead of watching the bright blue screen.