As expected, James removed himself from the block and Natalie put Sharon up.

60 Minutes is on here, things seem to be running about a half hour late.
Thanks go out to Zoetawny for the graphic!
My latest BB9 feeds report is up at TV Squad. I fully expect tonight's show to be delayed by basketball, but will put up a live blogging post when it starts here in the NYC area.
I hope everybody is having a fine Sunday. Here, I heard the word "sleet" in the forecast. Wah!

Yes, it's a new version of the bible! Forget the Old Testament and St. James, it's Natalie's Bible! Thanks go out to graphic artist Zoetawny, of course.
I guess the BB9 house is a lot warmer than it is around here. We had temperatures down near the teens last night. Brr. And they say it's spring?
I left you early yesterday evening with BB playing pranks on the houseguests. Joshuah seemed to either be the target or just perhaps first discovered masked faces in the mirror/windows lining the walls and a plastic rat in the icebox. He's the one I see most often going for the icebox, so it wasn't surprising he discovered the rat. Well, it was surprising to him.
Here's the latest from that Big Brother House of Pimp My Prank:
- Sheila got sprayed with the sink hose in the kitchen. BB prank or fellow houseguest work, I don't know.
- Natalie and Sheila think a picture of Allison would really freak out Joshuah.
- Sheila heard strange voices. (In her mind or was it another prank?)
- Sheila said her boyfriend (?) George and her son will beat up James at the wrap party. (Oh, come on! Sheesh! If you sign to go on the show, you have to know people are going to say and do things you don't like!)
- At one point, an image of one of the guinea pigs showed on their plasma screen in the living room. The plasma screen usually shows a fireplace, BB announcements like "Nominations Today" and such, and is used during live shows so they can see Julie Chen.
- Ryan nixes the Soy Sauce Slop.
- The feeds were blocked for a while. When they returned, Sharon was going on about what happened to her fur-iends.
- Supposedly it was the guinea pigs doing all the pranks on the house for April Fool's Day. (Yeah, it sounds lame. I had nothing to do with it!)
- Joshuah and Sharon talked about how scripted things are with BB making things happen.
- The Girls Alliance grows stronger as the boys play pool and always exclude them.
- James, Joshuah, and Adam toilet-papered Sheila's room.
- As they wait for her to discover it, Sheila complained to Natalie about all the pranks they've pulled on her. They are not allowed to flour her! Or spray her with water! (Gremlins must not be fed flour and never get them wet after midnight!)
- Chelsia's bad behavior is still a major topic in the house.
- Sheila discovers her room TP'd and thinks her bed is broken. The bed isn't broken -- the boys just switched the mattress on it.
- Natalie thought Sheila's room bit was funny.
- Sheila didn't.
- Joshuah made floury hand prints on the refrigerator to annoy Sheila.
- Ryan and the boys plan to keep waking up Sheila during the night banging on pans. (How original, eh?)
- Adam doesn't think it's a good idea and Joshuah doesn't want to do it if he's the only one doing it.
- They decided to postpone the wake-ups until tomorrow.
- Joshuah asked Adam how it looks for him. Adam was evasive.
- Adam and Ryan laughed about how Joshuah will break down when he gets evicted.
- Adam allegedly was in prison in France for three months. I didn't get the background to that story.
- James and Josh went ahead and woke up Sheila by banging pots and pans. She covered her head with the blankets and pillow until they went away.
- Joshuah told James he needs to vote to keep him in the house because he's a target and it diffuses the target on James.
- Joshuah says he brought Sharon back and now he'll leave because of her. (Well, if he thinks about it, it's because of himself.)
- James was up until the wee hours once again roaming the house. He exercised, snacked, and wandered aimlessly.
- As the HG slept, it sounds like there's a duck in the backyard. They're all still asleep as I post this.
I'm awaiting my more extensive report to go up on TV Squad, but I'm not sure when it might show, so I thought I'd do a brief update here for now.
The vote change, then re-change, and change again is still on. Even if Ryan and James vote to keep Joshuah, Natalie will vote to keep Sharon in a tie-breaker.
The biggest new news is that BB has been doing odd things in the house -- faces in the windows, a fake rat in the icebox. The HG think they're doing it for footage for the April Fool's Day show.
Natalie had another premonition -- James will leave April 9. I guess she's finished with 7s and 8s.

I took these screen caps of the hamsters in the yard last night. In the second one they were trying to signal for help from a helicopter which kept flying overhead. The helicopter flew away and the BB9 Seven remain on the island.
If you haven't read the previous entry, scroll back to read it before this one. Here's the latest from the overnight hours:
- Sheila says everyone hates her because she's so honest. @@
- Joshuah told Natalie that Adam told him he will give him his vote because James is voting for him to stay. He said Adam said he'd work on Ryan to get him to vote for him, too. (Adam is clueless of the most recent conspiring in the house.)
- Adam is worried about Sharon putting him on the block if she wins HOH.
- With Sheila, Josh was still talking as if he's going out unanimously (or near it) on Wednesday.
- Sharon said she'd do whatever it takes to stay in the game.
- Sharon talked to Natalie. She bad-mouthed Ryan to her. Now, Ryan has been telling Natalie that Sharon is the mole. How will Natalie react?
- Why, Natalie tells Sharon that Ryan, James, and Joshuah are trying to send her (Sharon) home this week! Loose lips sink ships!
- Natalie tells Sharon she wants to stick to her original plan and get rid of the boys.
- Sharon warned Natalie that James tells Joshuah everything which is said to him.
- The Girls Alliance is in full swing -- Natalie, Sharon, and Sheila.
- Ryan and Adam talked -- Ryan wants to make sure that Sharon will put up James if she gets HOH. They plan to use their voting power to get her to do what they want.
- James is still adamant that he'll be giving Joshuah a sympathy vote.
- Natalie told Adam she has to vote out Joshuah because he poured pickle juice all over her.
- Lots of small talk, sex talk and plans of pranks on each other.
- Joshuah scared Sheila by jumping out at her and laughter ensued.
So, first it looked like Joshuah was going home. Then the tides turned and it was Sharon going home. Now it's Joshuah going home again. And we still have about five days until the actual vote.