Dish TV

For Christmas my children decided to give us dish tv. Now that sounds easy enough, we filled out paperwork online got verified made an appt for installation. Well in this family nothing is ever easy!! He came at 12:30 to do 4 rooms, he was still here at 5.

The two rooms downstairs went fairly easy but upstairs was a nitemare. We live in a 90 yr old farmhouse and although the wiring has been updated apparently not good enough. The first receiver he installed upstairs threw sparks and shocked him. I guess that was a first for him.
He went and got another receiver plugged it in and it didn't work on that outlet so we had to move furniture to get to an outlet he could use. After several trips up and down he had it working but the dish itself isn't grounded and after he left we discovered the upstairs receiver gets hot and tvs don't work.

So now I have the two upstairs tvs not working and no idea what to do, when I called about it he told me to get an electrician. So our gift may turn out to cost us alot more than dish tv is worth.

Why?

Every moring I wake up and wonder what the day will bring. Well most of the time it's not so great. As a small farmer my husband has old fix every day machinery. I do mean every day something will breakdown. Right now his 95 Ford pick-up is toast, too many miles to fix and not enough income to buy another. I ask why, why is it always something huge! Of course we have leaking tractors and farm trucks that won't start but it's getting so that is normal but why. Why does it have to be normal! Farming is a great way of life but why does it have to be so hard. As you might have figured out I was a city girl 32 years ago when I met the man I would marry. I knew next to nothing about this kind of life but knew it would be great. Back then things were pretty good for us we managed pretty well even with three kids. Politics and government stepped in to "help" us and everything went down hill. I ask why but I know God has his hand in it and I must have faith so I say my prayers crawl into bed and wait to see what tomorrow will bring but why is always there in the back of my head, waiting - for morning.