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The choice of that sink by whoever built that house was a real head-scratcher. Nice airy kitchen, big window, lots of counterspace and then a 12" round sink - hardly large enough to wash a dinner plate in. Cairnes seemed like a very nice area to live.

Probst likes immunity idols, advantages and twists because they're cheap to create. A handful of beads or a rolled up bit of paper costs pennies compared to all the features we loved that are now gone like great rewards, elaborate challenges, new locations, family visits and Ponderosa videos. I think Jeff is really only interested in lining his pocket at this point. 🙁

Just when I thought I had got past Carolyn's eyerolls, grimaces and facial contortions she drops the gross "burp in my face" comment. I've tried, but I just can't like this lady.

Yeah, the wife said, "twenty years ago he had a chiseled jaw and defined chin." Well, twenty years ago (per those photos) he was probably 40 pounds lighter. The same thing could have been achieved with a diet.

Philadelphia That kitchen was hideous. Purple walls, dark green cabinets and the black-gold tile backsplash looked like a snakeskin pattern. I think I know why the previous owners wanted to leave.

MELBOURNE ARKANSAS 1914. My grandfather W.R. Johnson (top row, bow tie) in front of the one-room schoolhouse where he taught local farm children. My grandmother Jeffie is to his left on the same row and between them is their oldest child, my uncle Glen, aged three. My uncle later fought in the Battle of the Bulge during WW2 and later served in Congress in the late forties. The play yard consisted of one swing and one teeter-totter. My grandmother started the wood burning stove before class every morning during fall and winter, acted as school nurse and made homemade baseballs for the boys to play with by wrapping string tightly around a small rock and sewing a homemade cover. She also taught embroidery to the girls. In 1922 my father, the last of five surviving children, was born in the upstairs teacherage of yet another one-room schoolhouse on the banks of Horney Toad (Petiquaw) Creek in Oklahoma. My dad said it was pretty common for kids to come to school barefoot until cold weather set in and then they would switch to the previous years (now worn) "Sunday" shoes.

While the interior of #2 was a nice surprise I thought the exterior was nondescript. I found myself wondering why with all that space the owners chose to have a detached garage and parking area a hundred feet from the front door. That would be quite a long walk to the front entry in bad weather.

Five years ago I was awakened by the sound of the hot water hose bursting at 4:00am in the morning. I had to stop and put on shoes to wade through the steaming, gushing water (the cat food bowl was floating across the laundry room floor) only to find the hose end rusted to the pipe. By the time the WD40 lubricant worked the tank had emptied all the hot water and was blowing cold water. Most of the water disappeared down a floor heating vent but I still spent the next hour sopping up the mess. Lesson learned: change those hoses every few years.

Callawassie Island, SC Nice couple but my God, that voice! Sharp, nasal, whiney and fried all at once. She could peel wallpaper from a hundred paces.

He's dreaming of course and assumes by exercising he can eat whatever he wants. He's been at 575 for months which means he's taking in about 4,700 calories a day on his "I'll do it myself" diet. His dad is a jerk. No matter how frustrated a parent is they should never call their child stupid.

Yes, it does seem expensive and it seems so odd as every kitchen is a different size and shape. I'm always surprised that even new homes in Europe and Australia are still not always designed with built in closets.

TLC seems to love to show us dental procedures. Who can forget the Silva Twins getting their teeth filed down to little nubs and their new chicklet veneers. Some dentist out there would love the free advertising and they could make a whole episode about that, I totally agree. They could focus on the benefit of losing weight and how that translates into better self care. She can now get around better and fit into a dentist's chair, two things that probably led to her not dealing with the loss of that tooth.

These ladies have all been earning thousands per episode for sometime now. It begs the question why Meghan doesn't have her own place and why Vannessa doesn't get her missing tooth fixed. I think it must be a producer-driven/story-line issue rather than a money issue.

The obvious solution to Megan constantly intruding into the privacy of Tina's bedroom to use the bathroom is to buy or rent a portable bedside commode. She can wash her hands in the kitchen sink.

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I don't get grossed-out easily (or I wouldn't be watching this show) but that snow globe she made using all the skin tags removed from that guy's neck ... grossed-out!

When the first vote for Gabler was read I thought, "Oh, that's nice, someone is throwing him a vote so he won't feel too embarrassed by his lackluster play." Never imagined he would win. On the upside to this season ending, I never have to look at Karla's gross nose ring again.

I usually watch the challenges on Closed Captioning. Between Jeff's manic chatter and the relentlessly loud music I can't concentrate otherwise. Sometimes I'll watch it a second time on low volume if if it's a good challenge.

And moving through jungle brush and challenges with that nose ring dangling down. I keep thinking how painful it would be to catch that bull ring on something. It's probably just me but I find it very distracting.

I'm always surprised that there are apparently so many people willing to plunk down $20 or $30 dollars on a single scratcher when the odds are high you just tossed money down the drain for pretty low odds of winning. A $2.00 Powerball or Mega ticket has low odds too but higher payout.

Small but cute rooms and beautiful exterior. That said, I would never pay $1.8 million for what is essentially half of the original house.

Rewatched the original episode last night. I'd almost forgot what a miserable, deluded, nasty piece of work she was. Everything out of her mouth was a lie. To herself, Dr. Now and to the audience. Did she ever qualify for surgery?

For all her talk about their age difference (and I'm guessing bank account difference) she never said the actual age spread. I'm guessing she's mid to late twenties and he's mid fifties.

Ditto. Hot weather, barren landscaping ... just depressing-looking to me.

I think so. I just noticed it in last week's episode.