Switched to Pirates of Dark Water while getting organized. "The Collector" is a wizard who shrinks ships and seals them in bottles to take their treasures. He first steals a ship that Ioz sneaked aboard to get his treasure, then gets the Wraith. It's up to Ren and Niddler to trick the wizard and reverse the spell.
Spent the rest of the morning dressing the dolls for warmer spring weather. Ariel is in a hand-made pink polka dot dress with pearls sewn on the smocking that I bought from a doll dress maker two years ago. She borrowed Samantha's side bow headband. Samantha is dressed for her birthday in her Pink Striped Dress and Lace Pinafore with the white and pink shoes. Molly's also in a hand-made outfit, in this case a recreation of her hard-to-find Victory Garden Dress. Josefina celebrates a late Cinco Del Mayo in her gorgeous Dress and Vest with the lovely red and gold print skirt and black velvet vest. She wears it with her gold embroidered shawl from her Feast Day Finery.
Barbara Jean's hot pink fringed and sequined dress and fur wrap was supposed to be a play outfit for Melody, but I have it as her ultra-chic prom gown. She borrowed a tiara from the Sugar Plum Fairy ballet outfit to make her the queen of the Cherry Hill High East prom. Felicity is ready to help me clean in her green striped Work Gown and the lace-trimmed apron I originally bought from Cold Spring Village years ago as a pinafore for Samantha. Kit's ready to find that scoop in the second version of her Reporter Dress with the polka-dot vest and skirt and the cute rickrack side collar and bow. Whitney goes red, white, and blue for Decoration Day (Memorial Day when her story is set in 1959) in Maryellen's bow-print School Outfit.
Listened to two of my recent record finds as I worked. Hooligans is one of the many Who greatest hits collections floating around. I have Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy on CD, but that one stops in the early 70's. This one goes up to Who are You and includes songs from that, Quadrophena, Who's Next, and Who By the Numbers. Of the less familiar non-album singles, my favorite is "Join Together." Other later songs on here I love include the dynamic live "Summertime Blues," "The Song Is Over," and the title song from Who are You.
Diana Ross' self-titled album from 1980 was one of her biggest hits and featured two of her most popular singles, the bouncy "Upside Down" and upbeat "I'm Comin' Out." Other good ones here featured her in a more typical bluesy mode. I especially liked "Now That You're Gone" and the cute "Have Fun (Again)."
Headed out early after Diana Ross ended. Picked up two soft pretzels and a pepperoni-filled pretzel from A&A Pretzel Shop and ate them at the stone bench along the road leading into the Bettlewood entrance to Newton Lake Park. I didn't have much time to enjoy them. I had to hurry along to work.
I was a minute or two late, nothing horrible...which was a good thing. Despite there only being 23 kids today, they were pretty riled up, even the 8 kids at my table. I had to coax one little girl who decided to hide in the bathroom stall out so she could go back with the others.
Thankfully, we were able to get them out to the playground early. It was too nice for them to be inside for long, anyway. Like I told one little girl when she finally got on the swings, this was just about the most perfect weather you could imagine. It was golden sunny, warm, and blustery, probably in the upper 60's. If the kids weren't chasing each other, they were playing hide and seek with me and the other teachers, racing Hot Wheels cars down slides, or dancing to Taylor Swift songs, "The Floor Is Quicksand," "Diggin' In the Dirt," and songs from Encanto, The Lion King, Moana, and KPop Demon Hunters. There were four left when we took them briefly back inside to get anything they'd left there, then joined the remaining 8 older kids on the blacktop to let the teachers conduct their meeting in the cafeteria.
Took a shower when I got home, then had dinner while watching Three Daring Daughters. I go further into this charming vehicle for Jane Powell and Jeanette MacDonald at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Finished the night with more Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Plus. "A Dragon Tale" has Mickey and the gang trying to get a fire-breathing dragon away from Queen Clarabelle's front door so she can have her tea party. Turns out the dragon isn't anything like they think he is, and they learn about being a good friend when they help him find something he can drink tea out of and get Dragon Pete unstuck from a narrow bridge.
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