Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Daytime Monday - July 29

And Amanda cried ... finally

Remember, they wanted to be in the house! I wouldn't be caught dead in there myself! Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Disgruntled Doofuses:

• Andy told Howard he doesn't know if he can trust Helen and they counted the votes for Howard to stay.
• Say WHAT?
• Howard told Andy that Helen is controlling the nominations and the votes, as well.
• In comparing notes, Spencer said that Helen said he'll probably go up on the block each week, but should remain safe until jury.
• (Dang, don't these folks see it's both Amanda and Helen pulling the strings here? And ... one of them is presently on the block and could be sent packing!)
• Judd asked Howard if he'd be willing to go along and get back in the game if Candice went instead of him.
• Howard told him it broke his heart to see her cry. He said that, as a man, he'd rather go and have her stay.
• McCrae told Amanda he feels she has too many secrets.
• Amanda is worried Judd wants her out.
• McCrae told Spencer to lay low. Um. Okay. He has PoV, isn't worried for himself this week anyway.
• Amanda continues to be nervous.
• She asked McCrae if he trusts her. He said, "Yeah, but I didn't know."
• Are cracks developing in that relationship?
• Good. I'm sick of seeing them all over each other. I don't watch the live feeds for bad porn.
• Amanda continued to stress out, cry, worry that Judd is working against her, cry some more ... for a good two hours!
• Better McCrae to deal with her than me.
• She's now even leery of McCrae.
• She said she hates it when she loses control of situations.
• Yes, I do believe her. Yikes!
• Aaryn told Spencer that Candice will be going up in his place.
• Duh. Pretty much everybody knew that the second Spencer won PoV.
• Spencer pushed again for a power move.
• Aaryn's too scared to upset the house.
• (Like she never did that before!)
• Spencer told Howard that he's working on a plan to keep him and send Candice out instead.
• Spencer told Aaryn the same thing.
• The PoV ceremony, though blocked to the feeds, held no surprises -- Spencer saved himself, Candice went on the block.
• Amanda and Helen are all ticked off at Judd because he didn't tell them of the plan to evict Candice and keep Howard.
• Hey, they should be thankful it's Candice. It could be Amanda.
• I can only dream.
• Jessie and Candice had a bit of a bicker fight. Candice said that she has never repeated anything Jessie has said while Jessie thinks that she's using things she said about Amanda two weeks ago to pressure her.
• Meow.
• Judd trusts Andy.
• He shouldn't.
• Talk about repeating everything!
• They're all still worried that Howard has some sort of special power like a coup d'etat.
• They're worried about the vote count this week, but feel Amanda should have no votes. They plan to tell Spencer last minute they don't have to votes to send out Candice instead of Howard.
• Aaryn asked if it's tied between Candice and Howard, who should she vote out?
• Howard.
• Aaryn says she hates Candice.
• Howard and Candice are starting to bicker.
• The others think he's throwing her under the bus in an attempt to stay.
• Candice is starting to feel that way, too.
• Oh my. What a kerfuffle going on in there.
• I'm glad I'm here.

Primping time!

Howard-a-Day and Candice's onesies

Jessie backpedals

Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Sunday Evening into Monday - July 28-29

'tis Ramen!

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Broken Dreams:

• The girls had Nail Party #2.
• I'm glad I'm not there. I'm so not a nail party type person!
• Candice was the only female who didn't attend.
• She told Andy she's never been rude or ugly to anyone in the house.
• I say, well ... she might not have started rudeness or ugliness, but she's definitely taken a part in it!
• Amanda told Candice they're like mother bears protecting their cubs -- she protects McCrae, Candice Howard.
• Although she's not on the block yet (but probably will be after the veto meeting), Candice thinks Aaryn is being malicious to put both her and Howard on the block.
• Amanda told Candice that the only reason she was after Howard is because he was after her -- game, not personal.
• Candice claims she feels excluded.
• Helen says it's because she's always with Howard.
• The same can be said at time for McCrae and Amanda although they mingle more in the house.
• Candice told Amanda that if she and McCrae were both on the block, she'd take things personal, too.
• Amanda pointed out that all the deals Howard is proposing don't include her (Candice).
• Helen and Amanda both told her that Howard leaving will improve her own personal game. Candice's, that is.
• Candice told Amanda that Spencer wanted her to campaign for her (Amanda) to go and Howard to stay.
• Helen told Candice that they -- Candice, Amanda and Helen -- could work together in the game.
• GinaMarie continues to have delusions of her grandeur and prowess in the game.
• @@
• Aaryn and Jessie took a bubble bath with all the duckies.
• They noticed one fish was dying and the others were nipping at him.
• They were horrified.
• GinaMarie set up a front row seat to watch.
• Aaryn told Spencer that Candice is "playing the victim card" and that she hates her.
• She will be putting Candice up in Spencer's place.
• Howard continues to exile himself after his round of pleading for his case.
• That's not helping him. 

I feel pretty, oh so pretty

Duck, duck

They're EATING him!

Howard-a-Day

Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Sunday into the Evening - July 28

Howard-a-Day

Sunday's usually a quiet day at the BB house -- they have no comps, they can sleep in, the yard is usually open for swimming and lazing in the sun. In other words, Sundays can be boring for us! Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Bamboozled Bores:

• Helen told Judd that just before jury they need to get rid of either McCrae or Amanda.
• Howard read his bible.
• Helen has now decided that she likes and trusts Aaryn.
• @@
• It's only if they keep Aaryn in fear that she can be trusted, I think.
• Helen told Judd that she thinks he's really smart and isn't a floater.
• Hmm ... I wonder if that might make him her next target?
• Judd said he doesn't think that Aaryn's really a racist. He thinks her words just got misconstrued.
• How so? Does she mumble? No? Then ...
• They talked about both Amanda and Elissa needing to go, but Howard first.
• Helen has never watched either the live feeds or BBAD.
• Elissa said she watched BBAD when Rachel was on.
• She should have watched the feeds!
• In my screen cap below, Andy isn't really kidnapped. The lights in the bedroom must be kept on during the daytime and they're not allowed to sleep anywhere but the bedrooms. He's sleeping in.
• As did most of them except for Helen, Judd, then Elissa.
• Elissa thinks Howard is treating her differently than he used to ... almost ignoring her.
• Elissa is going on another stir up stuff foray.
• She told Judd that she thinks everybody is lying to her.
• She also asked him what he thought of Amanda. He said he likes her and then she told him three people told her that he wants (Amanda) out.
• Andy and Helen are also suspecting of Judd today. They wonder if he lied saying that Kaitlin was after Helen to get her out.
• Helen thinks Spencer will help them get Amanda and/or McCrae out.
• Andy doesn't know if he can be trusted.
• Helen told Andy that she's going to act like she's good friends now with Aaryn to make Jessie jealous. That way Jessie will be willing to vote out Aaryn.
• Y'know, that could backfire, I think. Jessie might feel betrayed by Helen and want to vote HER out!
• The photo booth opened and fun was had by all.
• All except Howard, that is. I believe he's the only one who didn't show up while the booth was working.
• Jessie was full of advice for Spencer.
• @@
• Like she's some kind of expert, eh?
• Jessie told him the proposed leaving order is Howard, Aaryn, then Spencer.
• Can't she ever keep a confidence?
• McCrae announced that Spencer is campaigning for Howard to stay.
• Well, duh.
• Judd is still worried that Howard might have a special power.
• Well, if he could fly, he'd probably fly right on outta there!
• Amanda is still pushing Anti-Howard, as expected.
• Candice is sure she's going.
• Candice cried to Howard.
• Helen said she was surprised there weren't more attractive men this year.
• So were we.
• So were we.
• Helen apologized to Aaryn for thinking she's a racist.
• Aaryn thinks she's being cast as the villain. 
• Howard told Helen he's not coming after her, never was.
• We know his main target would be Amanda.
• Of course, Helen and the others had already planned to bamboozle Howard and let him think he has a chance to stay.
• Amanda thinks that Aaryn will do whatever she says.
• Oh my. 

Oh, no! Kidnapped?

Setting a trend

4, 3, 2, 1

And Candice cried ... again

Big Brother 15: Nominations/Food Comp Show Blog Party - July 28

Ready for the party? As the show airs here on the East Coast (thunderstorms willing), I'll update this post with the major happenings. Refresh the page to get the latest. However ... just a note -- we have severe thunderstorms in the area. If I vanish, I've lost power. Eek!

The real party will carry on in the comments area, no matter what! Come join in on the fun!

Aaryn says she'll keep the deal made with Helen and Elissa -- they name the noms, Howard and Spencer. They all hid from her prior to the HoH room reveal. Helen thinks Elissa leaked the deal to Candice when it was actually Jessie.

Food comp time -- BB Police. Gather evidence and balance on desk for the first part. They have to then grab confidential envelopes and remember exactly where they found all the evidence items. The random team losing was GinaMarie, Judd, Candice and Amanda.

We vote on (for next week) - mung beans and mackeral, parsnips and pumpernickel or figs and felafel. Yikes, they had it good with raisins and ramen this week!

Nominations ceremony time. Key order is: GinaMarie, Jessie, Andy, Elissa, Candice, Helen, McCrae, Amanda, Judd. Despite pleas from the others, she kept her deal to put Howard and Spencer on the block. She apologized and said she did what's best form her game.

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was - July 28, 2013

Good morning, folks! Welcome to my weekly off television topic reflection on the week gone by in both words and photographs I've taken. If you're looking for Big Brother live feeds reports, the most recent one is right here at this link. This particular post will have no show or live feeds content in it, but I will be posting later today and there will be a blog party tonight as the show airs here on the East Coast.

It's been a rather odd week for me here this past week. At least the heat wave finally ended. Folks were complaining it was too cold one day as I was dancing around saying how much I loved it! As I get older, I'm SO not a summer person. I don't like sweating while I'm just walking or even standing!

I also had to deal with an infected spider(?) bite this week, probably two bites next to each other. I'm not sure if it happened outside or at home. I haven't seen any spiders in my apartment lately although I've had a few here and there in the past. Vincent tends to not let any bug he can get to live, brave hunter that he is. I went to a doctor after a huge bright red swatch around the bites appeared a day afterward and my foot/ankle swelled up. The bite(s) were on the back of my left ankle. So I'm now on antibiotics and I missed a few days of work. But it did feel good to have it elevated on ice. I have paid sick time, too. So, things could be worse.

Without further ado, onto the photos I took ... 

First sunflower sighting

The sunflowers have blossomed on East Front Street in Plainfield.

Hey, whazzat?

I heard it first. Then I saw it -- a female downy woodpecker pecking away on a common mullein weed. (Or is it a great mullein? Some are about 12' tall!) As this is indeed a female woodpecker, there is no bright red patch on the back of her head. Bridgewater Train Station.

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