Hurried out after the cartoon ended. I got out later than I thought and was ten minutes late to PNC for my appointment with them. Everything went fine after that. I talked to the head banker, and he was really nice. He agreed that I can't live in an attic anymore. At this point, I don't care what the housing market is like. I'm not waiting another year and half for it to go down, if it ever does. I need a real home.
It was such a gorgeous day, it was too nice to eat inside. I bought a "Haddon Sunrise" egg, cheese, and tomato sandwich on whole wheat bread, potato chips, iced chai latte, and dried mango slices and apple rings at Haddon Culinary. Ate my lunch on one of the wooden benches against the side of the building. Yum! The sandwich was delicious, the chai the best I ever tasted. The weather couldn't have been more perfect too, windy, sunny, bright blue, and just warm enough, in the lower 70's.
When I got home, I dug out my food processor and finally decided to make applesauce. I have a pile of apples from the Acme and the farm market that I really can't eat right now. My gums are still a little sensitive from having that tooth pulled last week. There was also the one that was half-going bad. I sliced the good half of that one, cubed the rest, boiled them until they were soft, loaded them into the food processor, added honey, and let the processor go until it was smooth. Ohhhh yummy! It was perfect. I added slightly more honey, but otherwise, it was nice and smooth and just sweet enough.
Watched Shirt Tales after I finished cleaning up the kitchen. It's a "Vacation for Dinkel" when he claims he has "animalitis" and goes on vacation to Hawaii to get away from his charges. The Shirt Tales follow him to help him have a restful vacation...but the cure winds up being worse than the sickness when he wears them out! "Wingman" is a super villain in a crow mask who uses crows to steal from banks. The Shirt Tales track him down and expose his plot.
Headed out to the Thomas Sharp School after the cartoon ended. As I rode along the sidewalk alongside the school, I saw colorful, beautifully-drawn chalk artwork declaring that teachers are the best and thanking the teachers in the school for all they do. There were huge papers on the doors to the library, the custodian's office, and the cafeteria too where kids could write down their appreciation for those teachers and workers who help them with their books, keep their school clean, and make sure they get proper lunches. Apparently, tomorrow is Teacher Appreciation Day. I thought it was so sweet, especially when some of the older kids stopped to write their thanks on the cafeteria paper.
There were 23 kids today, 10 at my table, and they were pretty wild. I had a hard enough time with the ones at my table. It was even worse in the cafeteria after snack. Two of the girls got into a fight. I yanked one away much harder than I should have, and she got upset. I apologized to her and held the girls back to talk to them. As it turns out, they'd been best friends pretty much since birth and talked things out on their own after the one girl calmed down.
Considering the gorgeous day (and the fact that it's supposed to rain later in the week), I am so glad we got the kids out to the playground today! They were utterly hilarious, chasing each other around and dancing to "Sharks In the Water," "The Pink Tiger Hunt," "Try Everything" from Zootopia, "Zoo" from Zootopia 2, the themes from Bluey, PJ Masks, and Paw Patrol, and songs from Moana, Moana 2, and Trolls.
They finally got on the swings by 4:30, and they all wanted to be pushed, even the ones who are capable of swinging themselves. One little boy got mad, and I'm pretty sure he kicked one of the girls in the stomach on purpose when he was swinging. Thankfully, she was fine once she got her turn. Other than that and some squabbling, we had a great time out there. There were only 2 girls left by 5 PM, so the head teacher let me go 15 minutes early.
I stopped at CVS on the way home. In addition to needing to use the bathroom, I wanted to pick up a gift card for Mother's Day. I also got corn remover pads. I hope those work better than the bigger callus removers. They didn't get rid of the whole callus - it must have been that bad. It's still sore.
Put on Match Game '91 and had dinner when I got home, after I took the laundry downstairs. Most of tonight was devoted to the week when Fred Travelena, Dolly Martin, Khrystyne Haje of Head of the Class, and comedian Jason Stuart joined Charles. Dolly was as sweet and funny as she was on the 70's-80's Match Game with her husband Dick, while Fred was frankly much funnier than he was in the syndicated Match Game or Match Game-Hollywood Squares.
Speaking of Match Game, I finished the night at YouTube with episodes that featured either real-life mothers, or women who played mothers on TV after the laundry finished. The second week of the show featured Richard Thomas and his Waltons mama Michael Lerned, the only actors from that show to appear on any version of Match Game. Lerned seemed to enjoy herself that week, but poor Thomas looked like a deer caught in the headlights. (Incidentally, the episode I have here was only available in an incomplete copy for years due to audio issues on the original tape. Buzzr cleaned up the audio as well as they could last year.)
Isobel Sandford was a lot more game in early 1976, just as The Jeffersons was getting started. In fact, she was hilarious, and I wish she'd shown up for more than two weeks. She helps a very sweet and funny young lady with the Head-to-Head in the episode I have here and gets to hear Marvin Hamlisch and Charles Nelson Reilly serenade her. One Day at a Time single mother Bonnie Franklin turned up later in the year and did several weeks through 1979, including the one I have here where Gene questions her sitting position.
Real-life mothers appeared on the show as well. Patti Deusch and Jo Ann Pflug were on the panel while pregnant in 1975. Patty Duke, the mother of five children (including MacKenzie and Sean Astin), gets to admire the blue utilitarian suit Gene Rayburn bought on his trip to China in the 1978 episode I have here. Elaine Joyce anticipated "Take Your Child to Work Day" by bringing along her daughter Taylor Van to an episode in 1981.
Mothers appeared on other versions of Match Game, too. Barbara Billingsly was among the Leave It to Beaver cast members who appeared during New Year's week on The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. (I kept expecting her to speak jive, or at least be trailed by 10 Muppet Babies.) Vicki Lawrence, Mama herself on Mama's Family, was one of the best things about the 90's Match Games. The episode I have here from 1991 features her wild feud with host Ross Schafer when she criticizes his rather ugly tie.
Match with your mother and some of the best mothers on TV in these delightful shows!
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