Switched to Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood while making my grocery list. Dan and the kids at school love their class pet, Snowball the Bunny, and are upset when Teacher Harriet accidentally lets him out of his cage. They get the entire neighborhood "Looking for Snowball" and learn about the importance of working together and asking neighbors for help. "Daniel's Neighbors Help" when first his mother gets sick, then him. Lady Elaine takes him to and from school and brings the Tigers chicken soup. X the Owl loans them books to read. Miss Elainia and her dad Music Man Stan brings Dan get well soon cards from school.
Checked my store apps to make sure I had all the online coupons I needed, then headed out to do my grocery shopping. I began at Target, dodging high schoolers off for lunch. I had an online coupon for TreSemme and for Nature's Valley vitamins. I just finished the shampoo; stocked up on conditioner, too. Got multi-vitamins and fish oil vitamins, but bought B12 instead of D, which is what I meant to get.
Did better at Sprouts. Decided to try the Bobo's Dipp'd bars in chocolate and peanut butter, since they were on sale. The lumpy Gold Nugget oranges were still 4 for $1; this time, I got five. Picked up the usual coconut milk, too. Found cranberry-orange mini-scones on a manager's clearance. I also got to sample a slice of Irish Soda Bread with cinnamon, cream cheese, and toasted coconut that was delicious.
Headed down the hill next, past the library, McDonald's, and Haddon Township High School to the Westmont Acme. I mainly needed apples and yogurt. Dannon Light n' Fit was on a decent enough sale for a 4-pack. Grabbed two more from Chobani. Picked up two Easter cards for Mom and for Rose and her family and a gift card for Mom's birthday. The bag of Honeycrisp apples wasn't on sale, but it was cheaper than weighing them. They were out of the cheaper mozzarella I've been buying for a snack. I ended up with one that was still on sale, if slightly more expensive. Had online coupons for Kind bars and one of the big cake slices. They had a rainbow cake with vanilla buttercream frosting that seemed a bit less huge than usual.
Rode home on the street alongside Newton Lake Park. Though there were people jogging or walking dogs, I could see that much of the pathway was still flooded from the brief rain we had last night, and likely from all the rain we've had in the past few weeks. It looks beautiful, with buttercups lining the banks and buds on many trees, but it's too messy to ride on. I was worried about the weather, too. It was much windier and cloudier by quarter after 2 (though it never did rain), and a bit cooler.
Put everything away when I got home, then went straight into a peanut butter and apple butter sandwich lunch and Let's Make a Deal. Things started out better this time, with a couple dressed in Tyrolean lederhosen and a peasant dirndl doing well on a guess the item's price game until the last item. They were smart to take appliances, since they were way off on the last price. A jester who won appliances earlier in the game joined them for the Big Deal of the Day. Neither of them got the big deal, but the jester did get some cookie jar money, and I don't think the Tyrolean couple were complaining too much about their living room furniture and TV.
Went online for my schedule next week and to put in for my birthday off. In good news, four days off, Tuesday for a dentist's appointment, Friday for the Rowan job fair. However, I also have the least hours I've gotten in over a decade, no floral department work, and two early days in a row.
Switched to doing job research while running the remaining first season episodes of F-Troop. I had no idea until today that the set I bought was missing the 5th disc. I ended up doing the 6th one by default. "Johnny Eagle Eye" is a sharpshooting teen Native (Paul Peterson) who is five times better than anyone at Fort Courage. O'Rourke enters him in a shooting contest...until he realizes that he's the son of Sitting Bull, and the winner of the contest will be the bodyguard to the president.
"A Fort's Best Friend Is Not a Mother" when Parameter's mother (Jeanette Nolan) arrives from Philadelphia. She immediately starts bossing everyone around in the hope of getting her son promoted. O'Rourke and Agorn try to scare her off, only for her to insist on taking her son from this wild town.
O'Rourke isn't happy when he's chosen to take an officer's training course. Putting "Lieutenant O'Rourke, Front and Center" means he won't be able to run O'Rourke Enterprises. Agorn tries to get him out of it, then make sure he isn't promoted.
The Hikawis are the ones who are worried about "The Day the Indians Won." If they don't actually fight someone, they'll get kicked out of the Council of Indian Nations. Parameter and the troops at Fort Courage offer to let them win and make it look good for the Council.
The town drunk returns in "Will the Real Captain Please Stand Up?" He so badly wants to impress his daughter, he tells her he's the captain of F-Troop. The others try to sober him up long enough to look like a real officer.
Switched to Vega$ next. Country star Ginny Gordon (Ronee Blakeley) nearly lost her career to drugs and alcohol. She's trying to make a comeback, but a series of "accidents" are starting to look like suicide attempts. Dan believes she's too dedicated to her "Second Stanza" to end it all and suspects there's someone else at work here, especially after his friend Doc Severinsen (himself) reminds him that singers often sell more dead than alive...
Watched Match Game Syndicated during dinner. Marcia Wallace kicks off the first episode admitting that people complained about all the sleeveless and off-the-shoulder outfits she wore. She has no problems showing off those shoulders later during a question! In the second episode, everyone admires a small Buddha statue a lady brought with her for luck.
Finished the night at Tubi with the second Librarian film. The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines. Flynn Carson (Noah Wylie) wishes his mentor Judson (Bob Newhart) would take him more seriously and his mother (Olympia Dukakis) would stop treating him like a child and throwing women at him. He gets a chance to prove how adult he is when his apartment is ransacked. The only thing missing is a scroll he got in the mail earlier in the day.
Turns out, it's a map that leads to King Solomon's Mines. There's a book in the mine that gives the user unlimited power over time and space. With the help of Emily Davenport (Gabrielle Anwar), who has more degrees than even he does, and native Jomo (Hakeem Kae-Kazim), he searches across Tanzania for the lost mines, dodging General Samir (Erick Avari) and his men. He keeps running into his Uncle Jerry (Robert Foxworth), a friend of his father's...and it's not coincidence, as he knows the truth about Flynn's late father, how he died, and who he was really working for.
Just as good as the first one, if not better. I like that the stakes are a little more personal for Flynn this time. It's not just an artifact; it's a part of his family legacy. On the other hand, this being a TV production tends to show more with the very obvious projected backgrounds in the jungles and the mines. If you can handle the cheesy effects and like your action on the light side, you'll want to check this out.
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