Headed back across the street for my first trip to the Farm Market of the year. It's still pretty early in the season, too early for them to be selling much besides asparagus and greens. Not to mention, it was already in the 80's at 11:30. They were still busy with people looking for vegetables to grill for barbecues and birthday parties. Grabbed bananas and asparagus, along with feta from the dairy farm tables for a snack.
Spent the next two hours riding around Haddon Township and Audubon, checking out yard sales despite the upper 90's-degree heat. There were a few leftover from the previously rained-out two weeks. The first in Westmont yielded nothing, but I did get two records from an estate sale a few streets down from the first one. It took me so long to find the third, I gave up and bought a too-sweet key lime water ice from Rita's in Westmont to cool off instead. Found two fantasy novels, Carval and Legendary, along with a pretty pink and gold swirl file holder, at a big yard sale in Audubon, a couple of streets down from the Westmont Plaza.
Finally went home for luncharound 2 PM. Ate and then rested for a while in my darkened room while watching Buzzr's big Family Fun Day marathon. They've been advertising this one for weeks. The first two hours featured a week of Classic Concentration from the fall of 1989 (if the pumpkins and corn stalks scattered around the set are any indication) featuring sets of identical twins playing each other. They proved that two heads really are better than one. Of the four I saw play, only one set of twins failed to get the car in the end.
In 1993, Family Feud did a special week of syndicated episodes filmed at what was then Opryland USA. The Mandrel Sisters and their parents played the Statler Brothers and their "special guest" Brenda Lee in a battle of the country music stars. The Statlers won the first episode, but despite coming off as more than a little flaky, the Mandrels wiped the floor with them in the remaining three episodes, winning two Fast Money rounds.
Worked on writing while the episodes were on. Charles tells Brett about the legendary Vorpal Sword, and how it was lost years before and is now in the possession of the Jabberwock. Defeating the creature may be their only way out of Limbo...
Broke for dinner at 6:30. By that point, Buzzr was on Password Plus. This was the week from 1981 with Jack Narz playing while his younger brother Tom Kennedy hosted. And yes, they did include the hilarious episode where Jack, who was upset after doing badly on the Alphabetics round, traded places with Tom to prove just how hard playing the game was.
Finished the night online after a shower and the last episode with The Daydreamer at the Kanopy library site. I go further into this Rankin-Bass live-action/animated retelling of several Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
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