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Hopefully the new magazine will have a regular feature called Time for Clocks. Joanna can demonstrate the big advantages to using oversized clocks in small places. Because we never would have thought of that ourselves.

Meanwhile, at 23, Sean is doing everything Josh hoped he'd be doing by now. Every episode I am more impressed with Sean and his abilities. I was nowhere near that confident, smart or experienced (at anything) at his age.

I can only imagine someone is nicknamed Paint Chips because he ate too many.

Bird wanted to know if they could stop and "pet the cows" in a pasture during their road trip. Cute, if it was coming from a 4-year-old. From a 21yo it sounds psychotic.

Nicole posted this to her FB page on 5/28/16. Glad her Gram got to see the finished house. "My Gram passed away. There's nothing that will numb this. I will never match her accomplishments, her grace, her heart. Please pray for my Gramps, 70 years he had with her."

I haven't heard Sean say even once that he's "the youngest captain in the fleet!" and repeatedly asked us to glorify him for that fact. Elliott was a great engineer and probably a pretty good skipper, but a wreck of a human being. Maybe it helps to have an involved mother who bakes cookies for your voyages and still says she's worried about you at 23, even if you're THE YOUNGEST CAPTAIN IN THE FLEET!

I'm with you, roamyn. I really, really dislike these people but I can't quit watching. Their accents are what bother me the most. Noah especially grates on my last nerve. I'm no linguist so I can't explain it in print, but he pronounces some words with hard consonants, ie., goin-gah for going, then pronounces it the "normal" way in the next sentence. "It's not right-tah, but that's the way-ya he emphasizes some word-za." If that makes any sense. If not, just listen to him for awhile. Very affected speech, IMO. On the other hand, I enjoy watching Bam-Bam, a 30-something year old man who still goes by a cartoon character's nickname. He's acts like he is SO over the Brown family and doesn't really want to be there. Except for the paycheck, of course. Yeah, I'll keep watching, but I won't like it. Guess that's what they call hate-watching, huh?

I thought I was the only one tired of hearing her go on every five minutes about how she wants to raise strong, independent women. I can understand missing your family, but I thought part of the appeal of the experience was to get away from it all and focus on your own growth, skills and confidence. Kids learn by example, not by somebody preaching to them. Whenever somebody says "I'm doing this for my kids," I think NO YOU'RE NOT, you're doing for your own (selfish) reasons. < end rant >

I heard the retching before I knew who was doing it and smirked to myself, Oh, it's one of the greenhorns that's not used to being in rough seas. Then I saw it was Johnathan; he earned his sea legs a long time ago, so that's a whole different, uh, kettle of fish. He was really, really sick but kept fishing. One tough fisherman indeed.

I love old houses because I like "dated." I don't appreciate modern houses that all look alike and are cheaply made. Being Chip and Jo, they will probably give this authentic Greek Revival an OPEN FLOOR PLAN and remove most of the old detail unless, of course, it has shiplap beneath the "real" walls. Then they'll install a tension wire railing and marble countertops. No thanks.

See? This. We shouldn't know this much about a TV host's personal life.

This house/season are all over the place. I don't like the house, the staging is awful (and too personal), and there's too much non-construction filler. I guess I was looking forward to a cool, updated mid-century look, which this is definitely not. It's like she's going for the worst looks of the '50s. If this project had been her first on HGTV I doubt she'd have gotten a second season. Nicole is better at rehabbing turn-of-the-century houses and should stick to that. I do give her credit for not involving the new baby - or Ethan - this season. Nicole was in Austin yesterday at the historic Paramount Theater. Tickets were $35-$100. For $100 you got a meet 'n greet. The website never said exactly what the purpose of the event was. I guess she just did Q&A. Haven't seen anything about the size of the turnout.

I grew up in a house built in 1959. The bedroom at the front of the house, facing the street, had a long, high window like on the show. I agree the idea behind it was for privacy and a flexible floor plan. So to answer your question, yes, I believe those windows were fairly common on some ranches in the 50's. I think Nicole got her frugal gene from her grandparents. If her grandfather built the house himself from scratch he might have just used whatever he ran across (like Nicole does) and that was the only reason there was one long, different window. And a Jack 'n Jill closet. < shrugs > eta: I had to laugh when Nicole was installing hardware on the new, custom, solid wood door and botched it. Wasn't she the one who claimed she could do anything from framing a house to plumbing it? See above posts re: Nicole isn't as accomplished as she'd like people to think.

I agree with this post. Every single point in this post. Personally, I would have chosen the first house, but then I realized Joanna would have made that Victorian floorplan OPEN CONCEPT and removed everything that made it special. So I was glad that wasn't the house that was chosen.

As I remember it, Fuhrman said in his book that he was a history and WWII buff but that the memorabilia had gotten so expensive all he could afford were medals and other smaller items. In Murder in Brentwood, I was surprised that Fuhrman came across as sincere and very professional. I was actually open to the thought that The Fuhrman Tapes were just what he claimed: exaggerated storytelling for a potential TV script. So I listened to some of them online. It totally changed my opinion of MF. Then I read a little about his disability pension claim in 1985 (?) and was even more convinced that he's a rotten apple. Everything might have been straight up (MIGHT have been) at the crime scene investigation, but his personal life was a mess. After he was convicted of perjury he retired from LAPD (don't know if he got a pension, after 20 years) and is forever barred from owning or using any type of firearm or knife. Must suck since he's a big outdoorsman. I also found out he's been married and divorced three times.