Readers, Welcome to my blog (formerly Birds, Blooms, Books, etc). I'm entering a new decade taking on the challenge of moving from Maryland after living there 46 years and learning about my new home here in New England in the Live Free or Die state - New Hampshire. Join me as a write this new chapter of my life.

Friday, August 7, 2026

Joining New to us Technology

 We purchased a new TV last month.  Ours was 21 years old! We'd purchased it in 2005 when we moved into The Lodge - the house we built. It was state of the art then.  We used it with cable and Tivo so we could record old movies from Turner Classic Movies and football games and watch them at our leisure.

But times have changed and we realized we were watching a lot of the same movies.  Friends would talk about other shows and movies, but they're only available with streaming.  Finally we decided to cut the cable so to speak, embrace streaming, and acquire a new TV.

As I said we got it in July, but what with grandkids here the only thing we watched was a Mario movie with one granddaughter.  With family out of the house now we've started exploring.  We got Peacock, Apple TV, and Netflix with our wifi service with Xfinity and I am donating to the local PBS station so we have access to PBS. We still have a landline with xfinity, but cable is done!

We are looking for recommendations of good shows to watch.  So far we've found Ted Lasso on Apple TV (hooked on that one quickly) and last night watched the first episode of Nordic Murders on PBS.  

What are you watching?

1 comment:

Acorn Hollow said...

We pay for PBS also and we have britbox and Acorn we pay for. We love them both. We us roku so there is a lot of free stuff there. And we have tubi which is free lots of older movies on there.
Cathy
Ps the tea place is the silver fountain inn Dover NH.