Dolls On a Sunny Fall Day

Began the morning with breakfast and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Adora is concerned about "The Price of Power" as the third season begins. Against everyone else's protests, she uses her powers to heal Shadow Weaver. She reveals that Hordak not only intends to open an inter-dimensional portal and bring the rest of the Horde, Adora isn't from Etheria originally, either. Horrified, Adora runs to Light Hope to learn the truth. Meanwhile, Entraptra convinces Hordak to give Catra one last chance. He sends her to the Wastes to gather more First Ones technology.

Switched to New Faces next. I go further into this filming of the popular 1952 review that introduced Eartha Kitt, Paul Lynde, Alice Ghostley, and Carol Lawrence to audiences at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog. 

New Faces

Spent the next hour and a half dressing the dolls for October. Ariel wears the Our Generation Retro white satin shirt and pink ascot, knitted coral vest, and brown plaid skirt. Barbara Jean also wears an Our Generation 60's outfit, in this case a knitted chevron-print skirt in red, brown, black, orange, and white, with a white blouse and orange cuffs and collar. Whitney is in the black and purple floral dress with the black lace trim I got from the Barrington Antique Center a while back. Josefina wears her pretty BeForever "meet" outfit with the red and blue flowered skirt. Felicity is in her original "meet" outfit; the orange and red rose print is perfect for fall. Samantha's ready to climb trees in her blue windowpane check play dress with the ruffly pinafore. Molly's also ready to play in khakis, her red hula sweater, and the dickey from her meet outfit. Kit's in her original "meet" outfit with the floral skirt and lavender twin set as well.

Switched to The Backyardigans while eating a really quick lunch. Mad Scientist Tasha wants her assistant Austin to retrieve Wolf-girl Uniqua, Vampire Pablo, and Mummy King Tyrone, but they're all "Scared of You" and keep running away. Not to mention, it's Austin's birthday, and he's upset that no one seems to have noticed...but there's a reason Tasha wanted to get him away from the lab...

Headed out to the Thomas Sharp School after that. The kids are still pretty wound up from Book Fair Week. We read them Pete the Cat and played animal charades with them inside, then spent the rest of the afternoon outside. In fact, we were outside for so long, the older kids eventually joined us near the end of the session.

No wonder. The weather was absolutely perfect. It was sunny, breezy, and bright blue, probably in the mid-60's. Couldn't have been a nicer fall day. This was no day for anyone to be inside. We danced to "The Train Song," "The Robot Song," "Sharks In the Water," "Let It Go," and several songs from The Lion King and KPop Demon Hunters while I pushed kids on the swings and tried to keep them from being on for too long. (There's only two swings!)

I stopped at the White Horse Grill for dinner. Had a yummy (if messy) grilled chicken sandwich and tasty sweet potato fries while watching the Phillies-Dodgers game. (Neither they nor the Eagles did well. The Phillies lost to the Dodgers 2-1. I don't know how the Eagles lost to the Giants later on 34-17, since the Giants aren't very good.)

Watched Match Game '76 when I got home. George Kennedy made his debut on the show this week and proved to be one of the best men to play the game, and likely the best player to frequently sit in the male ingenue (first) seat along with Nipsey Russell. Lee Merriweather had more fun taking a leaf from Betty White and rolling up Gene Rayburn's trousers. 

Finished the night with Bewitched. Darren doesn't think a female client is "The Cat's Meow" when she's more interested in seducing him on her yacht than talking advertising. When Samantha refuses to snoop, Endora takes matters into her own hands...er, paws.