Wild Is the Wind

Started off my morning with breakfast and The Busy World of Richard Scarry. "Count on Us!" say the kids in Busytown when they sign up for a bikeathon. Billy Dog has to earn money for a new bike when he leaves his original one in the driveway and his mother runs it over. He thinks he has to do it on his own, but the other kids in town help out. "The First Easter Egg Ever!" was a gift from a family of candlemakers who wanted to find a lavish present for their king, who had helped them out in their time of need. Hilda thinks Lowly is giving her a huge valentine. She learns that it isn't the size of the valentine that counts when she tries to make the biggest one ever in "Be My Valentine."

Headed off to work after the cartoon ended and I stopped at a mailbox to drop off the Easter cards. Work was pretty quiet for most of the morning. It did pick up around noon, by which time I was almost done. I gathered carts, rounded up the trash, swept the store, and dodged the heavy winds. It was off-and-on cloudy and chilly, though not to the degree of last week. There were no real problems, and I was in and out. 

Changed and had lunch while finishing The Busy World of Richard Scarry. Huckle, Billy, Hilda, and Lowly discover "A Message In a Bottle" while playing pirates. When Mr. and Mrs. Cat won't listen to them, they interpret the message and try to rescue the sailor shipwrecked on a near-by island...and then need saving themselves when they put a hole in their life raft. Hilda reads a story she wrote about how "Santa Needs Help" and she gives him her skis to fix his sleigh. Sally and her friends dye eggs and give them to Billy, Huckle, and Lowly in order to prove that "There Really Is an Easter Bunny!" Hilda has her own way of helping out.

My Amazon birthday orders were on the porch when I arrived. The cherry-red Studebaker CD/cassette player is a heavy piece done in Art Deco, with gleaming silver knobs and trim. I wanted to put it in my bedroom, but there's too many Easter decorations to figure it out right now, and it didn't fit where the old one was. I'll leave it in the living room until I can find a place for it. (The other order was New Balance sneakers for work.)

Set it up while watching Yogi the Easter Bear. Yogi's not smarter than the average bear when he ruins the Easter Bunny suit and eats all the candy for the big Easter Jamboree. Ranger Smith is furious and threatens to send him to Siberia. The head commissioner and his grandchildren are coming, and he could close the park if he isn't impressed! Yogi and Boo Boo set out to find the real Easter Bunny...but first they have to dodge a pair of very peculiar plastic-obsessed villains who want their fake eggs to be the only ones anyone uses. 

Listened to my Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street CD while doing some things online. This is one of the seminal Stones' albums, thanks to its party atmosphere and some of their best work. Songs like "Happy" and the hit "Tumbling Dice" were recorded in Keith Richards' basement in France during the early 70's, as the Stones were reaching the height of their early success. Other good ones here include "Sweet Virginia" and the gospel-inspired "Shine a Light." 

I had hoped to stay awake, but I was nodding off as the CD ended. I was too tired to do anything else. I finally went down for a nap around quarter of 4. Didn't get up until past 6:30. 

Finished out Press Your Luck, then watched Match Game '74 while eating dinner. For some reason, Buzzr leaped to the end of the year, when Gary Burghoff was replacing Charles Nelson Reilly while he was directing a play on Broadway. Phyllis Newman made her only appearance on the show during Christmas week. I can kind of understand why she didn't come back. Though she played all right, she kept taking the jokes personally, including some of Brett's quips. 

Moved to YouTube after a shower for Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement. Daffy and an artist's brush that seems determined to make a fool out of him introduce three shorts with spring themes. He and Sylvester chase a golden egg in the first short. The second has him trying to keep Speedy Gonzoles out of a chocolate bunny factory. He's solo in the third as he tries to figure out how he can get south without flying.

Wink Martindale and Gene Rayburn did somewhat better during the second day of their week on Password Plus. Wink was so thrilled when he got his contestant through the Alphabetics, he fell on the floor in relief and cried. Gene has less luck, as he barely gets a chance to play at all the entire episode.

Adam Adamant Lives! is less shocked by the death of a young woman in a feather-trimmed costume than by the brief outfits worn by the waitresses at the Fluffy Club. Georgina climbs into those costumes as one of the waitresses, and discovers she's to seduce a handsome young Arabian prince. The owners of the club have him in debt, but they really want to use him to get to his father and kill the sultan to start a revolution as a reminder that "Allah Is Not Always With You." Adam thinks the woman who owns the club couldn't possibly involved, while Georgina befriends the prince.