BB19: Temptation Challenge and Nominations Show Blog Party - August 6

As the show airs here, I'll be live-blogging and constantly updating this entry -- refresh the page to get the latest! As always, the real party is in the comments area. Come join in on the fun! 

Recap starts off with the Josh/Mark fiasco. Recap, recap. 

Mark is worried, but he and Josh have made up. Josh tells him he won't be provoking him again. Mark hopes all is cool with him. Jessica and Cody are (rightfully) worried. 

Paul points out how unhappy Mark and Elena seem to be with Josh's win. Alex points out to Josh in front of Mark that his "face was down" when Josh won. She has a long talk with Mark, starting out with an argument. She accuses him of playing both sides. He admits doing so to us.

Josh thinks he actually has four targets -- Cody, Jessica, Elena and Mark. Paul wants him to go after Jessica and Cody. Christmas points out that it's Josh's HoH, not Paul's. So ... it's to become Christmas's HoH? She wants Mark or Elena out because they're floaters.

A talk between Josh and Elena doesn't seem to help improve her standing in his book.

Paul thinks Jessica needs to go first out of the four targets. Christmas takes Josh aside and tells him she loves Paul, but don't do everything he says. She told him that he needs to be nice to all four.

Heh, Elena is definitely Josh's target. He thinks she's very influential to others while Jessica and Cody will always be targets. Josh thinks others don't see what he sees in the threat of Elena. 

The Den of Temptation voice speaks to them warning them the comp will be in the morning. Jessica and Cody think they don't have much to lose and will both play in the comp. They hope one wins safety, the other might win veto. 

Everybody except Christmas is drinking the potion to play. (No wonder the feeds were blocked for over ten hours for the comp!) 

They have to find three written clues in the haunted house that will seal the rift between two worlds. Evil scary things are jumping out at them as they do the challenge individually. Jessica's plan was to throw the comp so Cody could win. She does just that.

Mark 7.06
Kevin 3.11
Elena 12.31
Jason 12.07
Jessica 15.0
Raven 9.0
Cody 3.0
Matt 3.42
Alex 3.06
Paul 3.34 

Cody is safe. Jessica is the third nominee. Elena is worried that she will go on the block. Mark is just as upset.

Paul thinks they should target Jessica and not let her be saved with the veto. Josh still wants Elena out. Paul tells Josh to tell Elena it's a team effort and she's a pawn. Josh tells us again that she's his target. 

Elena doubts Josh's reasoning that she is a good competitor and that's why she's a pawn. Josh thinks she's throwing Paul "under the rug." So he brings Paul in on the conversation. She kerfuffles about it but he says she will go up as a pawn.

Nominations ceremony time.

Josh nominates ... Mark, then Elena.

Mark, not really familia. Elena, good competitor. Josh tells Jessica he's gunning for her.

Off Topic: That Was the Week It Was - August 6, 2017

Good morning! Since it's a Sunday morning, this is my weekly off television topic post taking a look at the week gone by in both words and photographs I've taken along the way. This weekly post is done year in, year out. Big Brother, the main draw for so many of you, only lasts about three months -- although sometimes it seems to be a lifetime. If you're here solely for the BB posts, please feel free to skip this post. You can find my latest BB19 posts by using this link.

It's been just another week in the life. We've had nightly or early morning thunderstorms almost every day and hot, humid days.  The streak seems to be over for now. I left my windows open last night for the first time in days. It was great not to be running the air conditioner and not to worry about rain coming in the windows! Tomorrow it's supposed to rain again. Sigh.

Mind you, I actually kind of like rain and storms ... just not when I have to be out commuting in that weather!

I really don't have much for you this week other than the photos I took. So, without further ado ... clicking on an image will open a larger version in a gallery setting.

Mama Sparrow still feeds baby ...

... even though baby looks fatter than her and is perfectly capable of picking up his own bread crumbs!  The youngster chases after Mom, fluttering his wings repeatedly and cries for food. Sheesh. I don't know about this younger generation! Plainfield Train Station.

A small murder of crows gather

 While waiting for my train (delayed by a half-hour!), I watched crows gather on the obsolete technology across the street from the Plainfield Train Station. At least their antics gave me great photo fodder and passed the time while I waited to be late for work.

Are they arguing?

Last call for alcohol! Er, um ...

Last call before the Flower of an Hour closes up for the day, that is.

If I had the time, I'd love to time lapse these

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BB19: Live Feeds into Sunday Dawn - Aughst 6

Everybody is giving him HoH advice

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Crap Shoot HoH:

• As you know from my recemt posts, Mark and Elena are on the block with Jessica as the third nominee as she lost the Temptation Challenge. Cody won safety in that challenge. Mark won the Power of Veto.
• What Josh really wants is Elena out of the house.
• He's apologized to Jessica for his bad behavior. While she didn't really truly seem to be accepting the apology, he did make the effort. 
• He has been telling the others not to be mean to her.
• Hmm.
• Yet, Christmas in particular, has Josh's ear. She has had it for weeks on end. When everyone else was treating Josh as the clown they could count on to create chaos and be a vote for their side, Christmas befriended him (whether fake or not and obviously for her own nefarious purposes) and acted like she really cared about him and wanted to secretly work with him until the end.
• Elena isn't the one immediately on Christmas's agenda -- Cody and Jessica are. Since Cody can't get got, it's Jessica.
• She wants Josh to convince Mark not to use the veto.
• If he doesn't and the nominations remain the same, it should be Jessica or even Elena voted out, not Mark. 
• But, then again, if Mark does something foolish and sets off the house, it could be a Marcellas Reynolds saving Amy Crews situation with him going home. 
• If he uses it to save Elena, he'd be putting his own game at risk.
• To be honest, I think at this point, anyone from their side put on the block with either Elena or Mark would result in Jessica going home.
• Christmas wants to break up the duo before both get into the jury house together.
• Josh's buddy Paul is also trying to get Mark not to use the veto.
• Dang. If they're all that dead set on breaking up Cody and Jessica, it really shouldn't matter who is up on the block against Jessica!
• They're saying that if Mark doesn't use the veto, it will show he's split from Cody.
• Um. Gee. I just don't get how if he uses it on either himself or even Elena, what it would have to do with being apart from Cody or not. Now, if he used it to save JESSICA, then that would say he's with Cody. But otherwise? Just making sure his own butt is safe or his lovesick sense of chivalry is alive if he uses it on Elena.
• I guess I just can't think like a hamster in the Habitrail.
• Mark told Josh he wants to use it and save himself. He claims it's not that he doesn't trust them not to vote him out. He just doesn't want to have the worry nagging him for four days and have to pack his bags and all.
• Mark also told him that he wants to win HoH next week and target Cody -- that will show them whose side he's on.
• So, Christmas is saying that if Mark takes himself off the block, they can't trust him.
• Say WHAT? 
• I guess I just don't see what difference who's on the block with Jessica makes! At this point, it should be all voting for Jessica to go except for Cody. I'm just not understanding the big deal about someone who's not the target saving himself being an issue of trust.
• Meanwhile, Kevin wants Paul to work with Cody after Jessica leaves the house.
• Hmm.
• I will say that if Kevin is at the end, especially if it's a bitter jury, he'd win it all because he's about the only one in the house who's liked by all. He isn't a comp beast but his social game is extraordinary.
• Back in the Jessica/Cody camp, Jessica is letting her insecurities about Alex show. She told Cody if she leaves and sees him fooling around with Alex, she'll never see him again.
• Now, Cody is a lot of things -- often sullen, hotheaded and more. But he's totally smitten with Jessica. Yet, she's jealous. If they stay together after the show, I predict a rocky long marriage. "Yeah, we've been married for fifty years and argued every day!"
• Paul actually gave Josh some good life advice. It kind of surprised me as I listened. He was talking about girls coming into his room where he has human skulls and it being a turn off. But then he admitted that he doesn't or hasn't had sex with many women. He told Josh that he should save that for someone he truly cares about. Oh my.
• Then, later on, Josh and Paul shared the HoH bed. 

Ew. Just ew. Nothing more to say.

Being a clown is in his blood

Jessica won't get her out this week!

"They're creeper cameras!"

Will he pull a Marcellas?

BB19: Live Feeds Power of Veto Update - August 5

After many more hours of blocked feeds, they've returned. And, we have a new Power of Veto winner.

It's Mark.

Christmas wants Josh to convince Mark not to use it and promise they'll keep him safe and vote out Jessica. To her thinking, it would serve two purposes -- it would separate Mark from under Cody's will and show Mark they trust him.

Problems: Josh actually wants Elena out and Mark is super paranoid. I personally can't see him not saving himself. We'll see.

BB19: Live Feeds - Tempt Challenge and Nominations into Saturday Dawn - August 5

Paul and Elena talk

Here's the latest from inside that Big Brother House of Crumbling Cookies:

• The live feeds were blocked for 100 hours yesterday! Some of us have to work for a living, including having to work weekends! Grr.
• Okay, it wasn't a 100 hours. It was more like ten hours. But, still ... they didn't return until almost 2am Eastern Time. I had been awake since 5am and worked all day Friday. I ended up going to bed, getting up early and catching up via Flashback.
• After they returned, they already had the Temptation Challenge done and nominations in.
• Cody won safety this week in the Temptation Challenge.
• Unfortunately, both Cody and Jessica chose to play in that.
• Uh-oh. Jessica did the worst and is put on the block as the third nominee.
• Josh nominated Elena and Mark.
• Hmm.
• Now, of course, IF Cody gets chosen to play PoV and wins, he could take Jessica off the block and she wouldn't be replaced or she might even win PoV -- she's fairly good in many comps. That would end up with either Mark or Elena going home.
• I think I'd personally prefer Elena going home of those two. She often irks me on the live feeds, more so than Mark.
• Oh my. There was a kerfuffle between Josh, Paul and Elena.
• Despite the fact that Elena badmouthed Paul and Alex earlier in the day, now Paul trusts Elena more than he does Josh?
• That's a bit whacked.
• Elena once again is trying to tug the same heartstrings with Paul that she did some time ago with Mark -- Woe is me.. I have no job to go home to, no home to live in. Woe is me. BB is my job.
• @@
• Paul told her he's not the HoH this week -- last week was enough for him.
• He told her that he (Paul) was willing to be a pawn for Josh because Josh was a pawn for him.
• Paul advised her to win the veto to take herself down. He said he'd try to help her if he's chosen to play for veto. But, he didn't promise to take her off the block if he wins.
• Maybe he's just not that into her! Heh.
• Meanwhile, Josh is telling everyone not to talk to Jess and Cody because they're playing "victims."
• Um. Well. They actually were victims of his ridiculous antics.
• He doesn't want people to attack them, just ignore them. 
• I would guess BB spoke to him about his outrageous behavior.
• Both Jessica and Cody hung out with the others most of the evening in the kitchen. Well, what evening was left after the feeds came back, that is.
• Jessica talked with others (not about game) and smiled. Cody did his staring with an occasional comment thrown in.
• They feasted at midnight their time when the Have Nots could finally eat again.
• Raven and Christmas both trash-talked about Jessica to Josh.
• Josh thinks that Jessica was incredibly rude to him in her speech while Raven is still going on about cat ears.
• Josh told his crew he wants Jessica out this week.
• That's even after Paul brought up that Elena threw him, Alex and Jason "under the bus" to Josh.
• Mark thinks that Jessica and Cody did the right thing by both competing in the comp. This way, she'd have a chance at veto (maybe two chances if Cody plays) and it wouldn't be a backdoor with no possibility of saving herself.
• He might have a point there.
• Alex hid a two-liter bottle of Coca Cola in the storage room. Kevin and Jason hid bottles of water in the lounge room. I don't know why. Maybe they expect a shortage and plan to make money selling the beverages?
• Josh's ideal final four would be himself, Alex, Jason and Kevin.
• Now, I like the thought of three of them being in the final four.
• He thinks Christmas and Paul should round out the final six.
• Hmm.
• Jason would prefer Elena going home over Jessica this week. He says Elena's playing everyone and thinks she's smarter than all. At least they know where Jessica stands.
• Kevin talked with Jason about the possibility of working with Cody once Jessica goes home. He thinks they could get Cody to realize that Mark, Elena, Matt and Raven were targets more so than them.
• Hmm.
• Kevin is right that Cody does well in comps and would be a lone wolf.
• However, I doubt that Jason and Kevin would make the top of Cody's hit list for targets if he does win HoH.
• If Jessica goes home this week, Kevin is going to whisper to her to tell Cody to work with him because "I've been good to you."
• Hmm.
• A lot will hinge on the veto comp later today.  

Ecstatic over his win

They're cousins, identical cousins ...!

From pirate to babushka

Just playin' the game