Or should I say cable to the satellite? Yep, we've done it. We've finally and thankfully done it. Satellite TV is a thing of the past at our house. Well, at least until they get a la carte packaging and IF the commercials clean up! We were in the discussion room [bathroom with the door locked] and discovered we both were ready to just get rid of DirecTV. My husbandkept it becuase he  liked having a 24 hour news and weather station and the History Channel. It became more and more obvious though that the parental control features just weren't filtering out everything we would like. We se the internet for news and rent educational movies from the library for free.

It is so ridiculous to try to enjoy a family show on a family networks and then have to jump in front of the Tv when the commercials come on, yelling, "TURN THE CHANNEL HONEY!" as he nervously fishes for he remote that slipped into the crevices of the recliner.  While such activity may give us a brief Calesthenic activity for a minture and a half, we've opted for treadmill exercise for the body and a smutty-commercial mind cleansing.

We now take the money we would have spent on a satellite bill, and buy quality dvds of classic movies and tv shows. My husband is the ULTIMATE Andy Griffith fan. We now have the first five seasons of the show [with Don Knotts] on DVD.  Part of our Friday night pizza ritual now includes a disk of  A.G.  As a matter of fact, HH [handsome hubby]  and some of his friends are considering our next group trip to be to Andy Griffith's home town of Mt. Airy, N.C.  As long as we can stop and see the Inspirations sing in Bryson City and see Biltmore in Asheville, it's alright with me!

For our educational viewing, we are considering purchasing Moody DVDS and some Billy Graham Association movies. My sister-in-law is a sweetie and brought us a bag full of nature science videos.  Our local library has some of the Moody science classics [oh, I love living in the the Bible belt!] .The atmosphere here, while not completely TV free, is much improved. I'm not so jumpy about turning on the television.