Television and me go back a long ways. My parents did not approve of television, so we did not have one in the house, except when my younger brother came home for a short period of time and brought a television with him. After he left Mom and Dad carried it out to where we ground grain to feed the cows, and there it got pretty dusty. When I was in elementary school us kids used to stop at the neighbors on the way home from school and watch cartoons on the television. This was in the 1950s. One day we saw Dad's car go by, and we knew we were in bad trouble, but all that happened was he called, had the neighbors tell us that we were to get home and get to doing the chores. We were relieved that we didn't get into trouble. My older brother had a television, and I worked for him and lived with his family for part of the year, ploughing in the field, building fence, picking rock, and running combines, threashing wheat grain, and then I watched his television. When I married Carol, she had a television, so we started watching it on a regular basis. We watched Country Western Music shows, Johnny Cash shows, Hee Haw, and a bunch of others. I got into the habit of watching television, and I watched way more of it than I should have, waisting my time when I should have been doing other things, and that was the worst part of the television was watching it when I should have been doing something else. Even when I was going to college I would have the television playing and you would think it would have affected my college work, but it didn't. I was able to concentrate on my work with the television playing. We move deep into the Cascade Mountians where we lived and worked for 10 years. You could only get to that place with a boat or an airplane. We didn't have television reception there, and at that time satelite was pretty expensive, so we did without television. We did watch television when we dog/house sat for people, and being already weaned away from television we decided we did not want to watch as many commercials as you have to watch to watch television, so we simply have not had television reception since. We have VHS tapes and DVD tapes that we can watch, but we don't even watch them very often. When we were able to watch while dog/house sitting we enjoyed the Gaither Gospel Music shows, also some other church programs, as well as National Geographic, History, and a few others. Carol and I have enough hobbies interests that we don't need television. Carol spins, knits, and reads books. I spend all my spare time between this and playing church songs/hymns on the piano. I need to get my trombones out one of these days and warm them up, and I probably will eventually for variety. I have an accordion that I have played off and on that I might get out and play before long also. While I didn't have a piano in the house I played an accordiaon that my sister gave to me. Antoher lady gave me a book that showed the buttons to use for various keys. So I get that book out, figure out which buttons to use to play in a certain key, and then I play the song. A friend of ours listening to me play the accordion told me not to quite my regular job!
We have a guitar here, but It has been so long since I have played the guitar that I have forgotten most all the cords that I used to know.