My television died last week. This week I decided not to replace it, as I can watch many shows I like at PBS online, and can see my DVDs on my computer screen. It's not much smaller than my TV screen. :-) So...Monday I take the machine, the (also dead) satellite receiver, the wires and the reomots to Staples in Red Deer, where I hope they'll be accepted for recycling.
My daughter's taking my old TV stand in the spring when she can get a friend with a truck to help move it. Latterly, I had my TV on a booksehlf. That's now in my sewing studio, with books and magazines on it that were threatening to collapse a high shelf in the room's large closet. In the corner where the TV was, is an antique pine table that was given to my paternal grandparents when they married in 1903. On the table is a basket of my handspun yarn, and some other yarn for a pending project. On the floor next to the table is my Ashford 'Joy' spinning wheel, and the batt I'm currently working up. With all the quilting and stitching I've been doing, I haven't spun since before Christmas, and I can hear the wheel calling me...
The corner where the television lived is so much less cluttered now, which is a delight to my senses. Ditto for the closet shelf in the studio, no longer so weighed down. Ah....deep breath....ah-h-h-h-h...
2 comments:
oh it was a major clean up day for me today too - and tomorrow - I move the cookbooks to make room for a microwave. I'm finally joining the last quarter of the 20th century!
In the great clean-up of Saturday the 5th I caressed my ashford Elizabeth ... and now she's calling to me too.
I'm with you, Margaret. I won't replace my TV when it dies. I mostly only watch the news and DVDs on it. All stuff I can do on my computer.
I've never done any spinning. It sounds very interesting!
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