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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Big Brother 15: Live Feeds Saturday Night Into Sunday - July 27-28

Oh, no! They're going to put me on the block!

In my last post, I let you know that Spencer (of all people) won the Power of Veto. Woe is the world at this point ... the day Spencer wins a comp. Here's what's been happening since the big win inside that Big Brother House of Messy Misfits:

• Candice asked Helen to ask Aaryn to put GinaMarie up in Spencer's place instead of her (Candice).
• Like THAT is gonna happen!
• Amanda wants it to be an all Howard vote.
• Putting Candice up there might muddle that a bit since some are so vehemently against her.
• Aaryn is worried that if she puts Candice up, with the two black people in the house on the block, they'll claim it's racially motivated.
• Spencer thinks they have the votes to get rid of Amanda.
• Like THAT is gonna happen!
• It's fun to watch Amanda worry and squirm, though. She's so controlling and bullying that watching her panic a bit is fun!
• I know, I have my own mean streak.
• Aaryn claimed she's never done or said anything racist.
• Okay, let's review the tapes, little girl!
• Aaryn thinks that she will say that Candice is going on the block because she ruined her (Aaryn's) reputation with false allegations.
• Andy said Howard sucked at the competition. It was some sort of puzzle.
• Howard said he over-thought it.
• Which is probably just another way to say he sucked at it, I say.
• Jessie told Candice she's going to go along with what the house wants.
• Helen says it needs to be Howard gone this week, Amanda another time.
• Judd thinks Howard is a nice guy, but possibly has the worst social game of anyone ever in BB.
• I wouldn't say the WORST. I mean ... there was Justin in Season 2, there was that guy tossed for throwing chairs, etc. Howard's biggest social game flaws are: too many bad lies, not manning up to obvious lies when confronted, secluding himself from the others, too much hyped religion in front of others and talking in circles.
• But, he's not the worst by any means.
• Judd is now saying he wants Helen out before Elissa because Helen is driving him crazy.
• That will last until Elissa goes bonkers again.
• Judd also thinks that Helen plays people very well.
• He's indeed right.
• Judd reminded Amanda that she needs to play buddy-buddy with Elissa to make sure Elissa won't vote for her to go.
• Amanda asked Judd who would win in a final two of her and McCrae.
• He told her McCrae.
• She claimed that's because it's just a popularity contest at that point.
• They still don't know America is the MVP. A few are pondering that "someone" really wants Amanda out to put her on the block.
• Yeah, I do. I'd like to see McCrae actually play the game for once. I know how Amanda plays it.
• There was a weird feeds outage with NO SIGNAL for a while. It was during the BBAD hours, so I turned that on.
• Amanda is worried a bit again -- when she's on the block with Spencer and Howard, she thinks she's relatively safe. Now it will be another dynamic thrown in.
• Andy told Candice that Howard is the likely target.
• Well, duh.
• Howard managed to take himself out of exile to enjoy a dinner Helen and Co. made.
• Helen tried telling Candice that there's no way Howard has the votes to stay.
• Candice thinks they can flip them to vote out Amanda.
• Um. Probably not, I say.
• Not against Howard, at least.
• The stress must be getting to Helen. She bummed a cigarette off of Jessie. Helen is an ex-smoker.
• Although she's not on the block YET, the others are wondering why Candice is working so hard to save Howard instead of herself in the house.
• Candice cried.
• Howard said, "It is what it is. If I go, I go."
• Candice cried some more.
• Meanwhile, Spencer is working behind the scenes to save Howard. He went to GinaMarie and told her that he was in an alliance with him. He's pushing a Candice Go Home agenda.
• Probably because he knows that there's no chance of Amanda going right now.
• Rats.
• Of course, GinaMarie is the perfect one to approach on that as she dislikes Candice more than she ever disliked Howard.
• Spencer also hit up McCrae with the same agenda.
• Since Amanda is so anti-Howard and McCrae is her little puppy dog following her about, I can't see him voting any way other than what Amanda tells him.
• Judd also really wants Howard out. 
• We'll see. I don't think Howard is going to survive the week, myself. And, most of it will be his own darn fault.

Run, little hamster, run!

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

(Old R.E.M. song, for the young'uns)

Howard-a-Day

They COULD be cleaning the room!