Galloway Cave

Four bankruptcies in 20 years, the last one was Christine. They take turns running up charges on numerous credit cards. The details for each bankruptcy were listed on another blog. I'll have to go digging to find the date for the last one but I'm thinking it was a year or so before the show started. Apparently that has been a continuing problem with their website. It crashes anytime more than three people try to access it. Other business problems include charging people's credit cards before they ship and shipping has taken up to 1-2 MONTHS. They are beyond clueless with this company.

Seeing Kody throw a temper tantrum at the therapist's office about never being in charge was one of the most embarrassing moments of this show. I guess he has forgotten the fact that he moved his entire family to Vegas against their will, just because he wanted to live there ("his Plymouth rock"). He is shown week after week making idiot choices and stupid decisions. I can guarantee the four bankruptcies were also his idea. Even after having three weeks to work on a presentation, they still biffed it. That one woman called Christine on the marketing bullshit-15 million hits on the website and only 500 sales? $45,000 in sales the first year and $180,000 in sales the second year? Who the hell is buying that crap? Kody said they have their product in retail outlets with an "s"; I thought it was just in Guilt in outer Vegas. Kody: "Everything we touch turns to gold." Huh? I guess Meri can't talk in person but she sure does well on Twitter.....

From the moment she moved to Lehi.

They have income from the show, a pyramid scheme-type business that they may or may not be still involved with (the Green Goo), the Joolry Business and Janelle is working in real estate but we aren't sure if she is selling homes or just a shop gopher. The homes sold for around $435,000 each but word on the street is the builder gave them three year interest only loans and they have to find conventional loans at the end of the three years or the homes go back to the builder (hence the four very different floor plans and options in each home; easier for him to flip later).

The washing machine was pulled away from the wall and at an angle, so I'm thinking that is what drew her attention to it. The biggest problem was the fact that she went into the house without a warrant and started snooping around. At that point Lester has become a possible suspect, due to her conversation with the police chief. If she had found the hammer hidden in the washer (not in plain sight) there would be no way it would be admitted it into evidence in a trial. I'm a little squicked out by the puddle of blood still on the floor. The house has to REEK from the smell. The sock-torture was something. Squeezing his hand had to have released all kinds of ick into Lester's system, which is why he crashed so quickly. Wonder if Parable Ari knows that his wife is flirting with Gus through the windows?

Most polygamist sects do not have loving, monogamist-style marriages with close sister-wife relationships. The man marries the woman in order to make many, many children in name of God. Period. The husband and wife may have friendly feelings for each other and may even develop something more over the years, but for the most part it is strictly business. The sister wives barely tolerate each other, usually live in separate houses or separate levels of a house and the families are raised only by that mother. The AUB sect (which the Browns, Dargers and Williams belong to) is more family-oriented than the other sects and I think that is why we are seeing those families on TV. But you can also see what happens when you try to force monogamist ideas and function into a plig marriage. You get the trainwrecks we are watching on TLC.

Paulie said she had considered leaving the family when they left the religion, but couldn't leave (waving her hand around) "the family". I think what she meant was she didn't want to give up the control she had over the other four wives. She makes all their lives miserable and enjoys every minute of it. When Tamron asked Rosemary if she and Paulie had worked things out about Paulie interfering with Rosemary's time with Brady, Rosemary first yes they had talked, then said she had misunderstood Paulie. What was there to misunderstand? Either Paulie is interrupting or not. Rosemary's feelings are valid, there is nothing to misunderstand. Also, notice Brady didn't say one word during that entire conversation. He is just as responsible as Paulie for the interruptions. He needs to man up and keep the schedule. I'm glad that Rhonda addressed how she is following through with the lump issue. Testing for the cancer gene and possible surgery, with a very reasonable and responsible talk about options and responsibilities. It was a vast improvement from the Rhonda we were seeing during the show.

I got a message from a another poster asking if Lester would have been checked out at the jail when he was booked. The answer is yes, especially since the bandage on his hand is bloody on top. All injuries are documented for liability purposes and if there is blood exposure, they are treated and covered due to bloodborne pathogen safety standards. He probably would have had a hard time being handcuffed too, since his hand is so swollen from the infection, and the arresting officer should have noticed that. But since we are seeing incompetent law enforcement all around here, never mind.

I liked that Jackson spent time showing the owners how to do injections at home. So many people don't know how and are intimidated, even after the vet shows them how to do it. Jackson can show the cat is aggressive without getting within scratch range. I don't understand the need to draw blood every time. In fact, I'd be more impressed if he DIDN'T draw blood with a cat we already know is aggressive. I agree, Austin vets are looking really bad at this point. But the owners were still a bit dense. Painful stinky poos should be a clue that food and health are issues. At least try switching food and get a second vet opinion on the poo. I was also not understanding how the other owner thought a can of puffed air would discourage a cat from running through a yard. The sprinklers were great but the alarm would probably piss off a neighbor at 3:00am. My mom's cat gets very car sick when traveling so I may have to get a bottle of Jackson's Spirit Essence for her to try.

Lester only has a single buckshot in his hand, not a shell. As a retired game warden, I have been peppered many times during dove season with birdshot and have had to pick it out or let it come to the surface and remove it over the years. He just needs to man up and do it himself. With the amount of infection going on, I'm surprised it hasn't come out with all the gunk he's been messing with. /end of gory talk. And as a retired LE person, the amount of half-assing cop work just about killed me this episode. But I guess they needed to extend things for a while to make it to the end of the series. Otherwise, I'm loving everything else.

He dated Robyn for six weeks! Some of the others were for three months. As I said over on TWoP, it takes me that long to remember someone's phone number, much less form a relationship and decide to marry them. Even though they have been married for 14-20 years, I need to do the math (not my best subject) to figure out just exactly how many "real" years they have spent with Brady, since it is one day a week at a time.

Like I called it over at TWoP, it's the Church of the Smoochy Love Ya's.

The fundamental sects conduct their baptisms at the age of eight and they are given their first set of Magical Underwear at that baptism. I'm not sure how long the Williams have been out of the AUB (I have read several years and also ten years). The boy who was talking about the dinner alone with his parents looked fairly young. So is the family still conducting baptisms at the age of eight (and are still giving out Mystical Chonies) despite being out of the religion, and how do you forget receiving them in the first place?

Not to mention massive amounts of make-up too, just like the Browns. It was all a little too precious for me. They hadn't seen the entire season yet (if at all) so we'll see how they all feel about each other next week. It's one thing to be in a plig marriage with blinders on in real life, another to see the other marriages play out on TV AND hear your sister wives chat about you, your husband and her plans for her marriage on national TV.

My two cat perches. The first one includes tube, race track, perch, bookcase and Eye-in-the-Sky; the second is a series of shelves leading to the cabinet top with a condo, scratch post and tube. All for one very spoiled rescued feral cat named Duchesne. http://i.imgur.com/I3HIoEV.jpg

Great, I'll have to pick up the book when it comes out. I already have some pretty impressive projects for Duchesne but I'm always on the look out for more!

I was thinking the same thing. The lady who does the catification stuff has some cool ideas (like the screens to block the stove hood in the first episode this season). I'd rather see some pictures about those things than cat shaming photos!

I did a quick Bing search and found a reference to the episode where the rug made it's first appearance. Another blogger made a screen-grab of the loop rug and said the rug may have come from Target and the toys were just regular cat toys pushed through the loops.

I can imagine there are a few vets out there who would just blow off the "night terrors" statement as 'The cat is chasing bunnies in his dreams" rather than taking the time to fully investigate the problem. I've had to change vets for exactly that reason. I guess the owners didn't realize there are crappy vets out there. Foley looks just like my Duchesne, so it really broke my heart to see him in such distress. I really like that puzzle mat and need to add it to the 4,295 other cat toys in my house. Coco's mom was an idiot. You can have a cat in the house, but you don't have anything in the house for the cat? It boggles my mind that these people think they can have a pet in a sterile environment and everything will be ok.

With a background like that, no wonder he gets that pained, WTF look on his face when some jackass owner starts heehawing around about how their way of running their hotel is sooo much better than what he is proposing. They should just shut their traps and let the man take over. Protocol in the Air Force. That makes sense.

THAT'S IT!!! That damn red ice scraper has been driving me batshit crazy since Tuesday. I knew I was suppose to know what it means.

I was tired of her referring to it constantly as "The Breast Cancer Scare". There could have been a number of reasons for the lump- cyst, fibroadenoma, fibrocystic changes, infection, just plain old non-cancerous growth or cancer. If it was for drama, she really set Breast Cancer Awareness back a bit (as a media figure, pursuing this storyline). Women need to be strong, centered and focused while going about determining just exactly what our lumps are all about. Rhonda was not exactly any of those things. It also sent a poor message to the girls in her family-wait for two years heehaw around about religion, then stress every time you see the doctor. Alone.

That was incredibly boring. I'm glad Rhonda is OK. Otherwise, that was one butt-ugly tattoo and JethroJosh leaves for Africa with a backpack and a pair of flip flops. It also seemed like Robyn was a more child-like than we have seen her before. What the hell was that prolonged preview for Sister Wives with Kody talking to Mykelitie's boyfriend? Hormones pass through the mouth when you kiss and he knows this because he reads a lot of science stuff? Can we please keep just one jackass per show, TLC?

Throwing away paper and plastic for thirty people every.single.night just makes me cringe. They better recycle. With 24 kids, you would think they would already have a schedule in place for who does clean-up every night (the kids of the mom who cooked the previous night cleans up the next night, for example). You would also think with that many kids, a house would have a cleaning schedule in place and sister wives would not have to come over to clean. Not to go all Dugger, but teenagers can help out a bit more (jackass boys included). I'd make Prince Josh drive his brothers to karate for smart-mouthing his dad about the shirt business.

Brady buys the wife a new ring on her twentieth anniversary. He bought Paulie's new ring while shopping with Robyn. Then he bought Robyn's new ring late. The ring he had fixed for Rosemary was her original wedding ring. Her twentieth wedding anniversary is coming up and she said last night he can put off buying THAT ring until he makes things right with Robyn's twentieth ring. So Rosemary is sacrificing herself again for another wife. I was annoyed at Robyn for dragging Rosemary into the whole situation as a wingman for the Safe Talk. All she had to do was tell Brady that she was hurt by how he went about buying her ring, that he needed to make it special for her in his own way, then send him on his way. No need to involve anyone else and certainly no reason to make him postpone buying another wife's ring too.