Back in the Fashion Challenged Seventies, my family often went 'up north' to my grandparents farm for the weekend. We did all kinds of things, everything a grade schooler loved and then some. Those adventures were cool and I could fill pages with what we did, but today is saturday night TV.
Now saturday night television was a big thing as a kid. We got three channels, sometimes four, and there was all kinds of things to watch. My grandparents got one channel if grandpa was successful with the rabbit ears. He was pretty good at it too. All good,we got TV, right?
Not so much...
You see the one channel they got was kind of limiting for a kid.My grandparents though..that was all they needed. At seven bells, we got The Lawrence Welk Show. At eight, we got Hee Haw and at nine we got the Waltons. Ten came around and it was lights off, time for bed.
Oh how I complained when I was a kid. Well I complained to myself really, but I am sure the adults knew, but I was a good kid sometimes, so I just...dealt with it. For me Lawrence Welk was lame, just not my thing. Hee Haw, by george that show was corny and just, not my thing. The Waltons was okay, but still, it wasn't cool. Looking back now, I guess it wasn't so bad really. But man I wanted the cool shows, Brady Bunch, Jackson Five, all the cool stuff.
I guess I still don't care for those shows but it wasn't so bad. My grandparents liked it and my parents did too. And you know what? I had the world by the proverbial...well you follow me. I had a good family that enjoyed time together, what more could a kid ask for?
Besides, on occasion, we could get my grandpa to play fiddle and we would have a grand old time. So there was some good music floating around then and in a way, it influenced me a great deal. I am about as corny as you can get sometimes and I love music. Grandpa had a neat old violen, er fiddle and he could play and sing and dance.
So you know, thirty years later, it aint so bad.
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