| It is true my Mother loves her free satellite TV; but not | | | | cell phone. My mother and sisters loved that and took |
| for any of the reasons you can imagine. This is a tale | | | | full advantage of the system. We had a VCR and |
| completely separate and apart from anything you | | | | large TV on which we could watch movies in the |
| might think you know. So read on and find out my | | | | evening with the power from the solar system. I have |
| secret for liking satellite TV. I think you won't be | | | | found out since then it really was a good thing that I did |
| disappointed. | | | | not have commercial TV to pollute my mind. |
| I, along with the rest of my siblings, was raised on a | | | | This was all good. However, some years back my |
| very remote ranch on the Southwestern high dessert | | | | Mother had an accident. She ended up a semi invalid |
| of the United States. Now you must come to | | | | unable to walk without a mechanical walker. That of |
| understand my definition of remote. It means no | | | | course meant she could not be active outside and |
| electricity, no telephone, no city water, etc. In fact, the | | | | was limited to the house. We kept her in movies for |
| nearest Big Mac was/is 45 miles down an unimproved | | | | awhile but that soon became a boring experience for |
| dirt road. Then if there is any type of weather you | | | | her. |
| probably should make the trip in an off-road 4 wheel | | | | I had heard about Satellite TV but by them I was living |
| truck. | | | | in the city and had no interest in such a thing. One day I |
| How awful! I can hear you saying that right now. But | | | | was reading an advertisement about Satellite TV and |
| that is just your city self talking. I have lived in both | | | | it dawned upon me that it worked from a satellite. |
| worlds of the ranch and the city. Believe me there is | | | | DA!? Within the week we had a free satellite TV |
| no comparison. Your city looses every time. In the | | | | installed for Mom running off her solar system. It |
| beginning [of ranch life for my family] it was primitive I | | | | seems her loneliness just evaporated. |
| admit. However, over the years we develop the | | | | She still cannot move around much without her walker, |
| property into our own world. We developed a | | | | but she smiles a lot more. She is in contact with the |
| pressurized water system from our spring; it also | | | | world through that satellite TV. She is up to date on |
| powered a turbine generator for electricity. We have | | | | news, documentaries and most of all her soap shows. |
| large generator backups for that system. And for triple | | | | It makes me very happy to see her living her life again. |
| redundancy the ranch has a very nice solar system. | | | | I am now grown and working in ecommerce and |
| It was not hard to develop all these little niceties of life. | | | | websites. It seems only natural that I should put in a |
| It was communication and entertainment that we could | | | | web page about satellite TV on my website. It has |
| not duplicate. That did not really matter in those days | | | | been a God send to my Mother. Maybe one or two |
| as we were all busy from morning to evening on one | | | | others will hear me and benefit from a free satellite |
| project or another. When I completed my chores then I | | | | TV. |
| began my home schooling. When that was all done for | | | | Oh by the way, the satellite TV has worked out so |
| the day we children had 10,000 square acres of | | | | well for Mom we installed a satellite internet for Dad. |
| dessert around us as our play ground. | | | | He smiles a lot when we mention it but will never admit |
| Communications came along with the advent of the | | | | how much he enjoys it. I know he does though. |