"Fabio surprised me with his little tirade about not going to reward." Fabio and Chase had had a talk earlier in the day wherein Chase promised him that he'd take Fabio with him on the reward if he won. And Fabio promised that if he won, he would choose Chase to come along. Fabio and his mother live in different states and only see each other about twice a year. As Fabio said, Holly and her husband live together, so it wasn't as big a deal for them to get to go on the reward as it would have been for Fabio and his mother. And before you bring up the fact that Holly and her husband spent their 25th anniversary apart while Holly has been playing Survivor, it really wasn't much of an anniverary reward for them if they couldn't be alone together doing the horizontal mambo. "According to the spoiler boards there was a lot that went on during tribal that wasn't shown. Jane accused Sash of something that he denied. The cameras were turned off for a while while it was discussed." I doubt the cameras were turned off for any discussion during tribal council. It's a well-known fact that those tribals usually last around and hour and a half to two hours, and have been known to last even longer than that. It's just that it's always severely edited to make it seem like it's only 15 minutes or so.

I can't say how happy I am that Abi is gone. Malcolm made an excellent point when he said it can backfire on you keeping people like that around, sometimes they somehow pull it off and win. She is a vain, nasty, cold hearted waste product. How bad would it suck to lose to her? haha The only one I do not want win is Lisa. She was o.k. at first but the whole crybaby routine, "this game is bigger than me, "sniff sniff", and I don't know if I can learn it...." yada yada yada. And I just would rather not see Skupin win either. I will be happy with either Malcolm or Denise. Denise hasn't pissed anyone off, she hasn't been negative, she hasn't had any confrontations, she's tough and strong. But she was also in the background not outwitting anyone. That might be a consideration for some on the jury. Malcolm played a great game also. And also did a lot of wheeling and dealing and working it. Along with also being nice, non-confrontation, wasn't negative was tough and strong. Hmmmm, he and Denise are pretty darn even. I really hope it's one of them. Here's the link to Ponderosa. Scroll part way down the page til you see the word Ponderosa in blue. There are clips from previous seasons on there also, so you have to scroll left or right to get to this seasons people. Here is a link that might be useful: Ponderosa

hfte Its been a few days since I first commented and after reading all of the subsequent remarks and watching Tim's short interview with Ellen I've made the following observations: 1. Tim appears to have made an honest and sincere effort in the competition to design and create a truly original piece of furniture - not withstanding that it appeared very similar to that of European designer Simon Schacht. 2. He continues to present as a humble compassionate and positive human being, ( as he presented throughout the whole competition in sharp contrast to some of the other competitors ), while also coming off as very competent and confident ( without an ounce of pretension or "cockiness"). He therefore comes off looking very much like the real winner anyway no matter if he did not get the actual prize itself. He also demonstrated a considerable level of skill most of us can only dream of possessing in furniture design and build. He truly was and probably is in a "league of his own". 3. Now some people are pilling on Katie for various reasons the primary one being she won after Tim was disqualified. Someone even suggested that she or a friend of hers made the anonymous call that "outed" Tim's piece as a counterfeit. Her pieces are also being criticized as not being functional enough and her use of some unusual materials, ( for furniture that is ), such as PVC pipe in her last piece. At this point it is completely unfair to cast any blame on Katie for Tim's disqualification or choices made by the judges and Ellen. Unless it does come out that the "information" that lead to Tim losing the winning title came directly or even indirectly from her then we should not take shots at her. Personally on a purely aesthetic level I thoroughly enjoyed most of her work and the fact that they were also quite functional. Unfortunately for Katie her "plastic marble" table turned into an ungainly "cow table" that would only fit in a children's arts and crafts room. I also believe Katie's second weakest piece, ( the first weakest being the cow ), was her last piece, the table with the Purple Heat wood "pull - out chairs". Now while there where a lot of individual aesthetically beautiful components to the table I really did not see anyone of these individual parts draw the "whole" together. My second major concern with this table "and chairs" is its' functionality. Those beautiful purple heart wood with zebra wood joiners would not survive any adult sitting on them for long. The structure couldn't begin to hold anyone 100pounds and over. And as mentioned by another writer they are also too low. Unfortunately the best that one could say about that last and now also ironically wining piece is that other then that its' constituent parts are well built it is in that euphemistically way of speaking "Interesting". Now were I to pick a clear winner from Katie's more worthy contributions it would have to be the armoire with its hidden storage and bold modern look. 4. So far I have not read anyone commenting on the rather outsized roles the carpenter assistants that were provided to the contests may or may not have played. It certainly was apparent the explicit conflict between the contestant who built the losing baby diaper change table and carpenter was a significant factor in her loss. With regards however to Tim and Katie both had competent assistants. With that being said though Chip would on occasion take Tim's design in a conflicting direction and Tim had to forcefully pull him back into his direction. In contrast Katie and her assistant appeared ( at least on camera ) to have no conflict at all. (I don't recall his name) I have seen this particular carpenter before on either D.I.Y. or HGTV and remember being very impressed with both his ideas and implementation of them. In one instance he appeared on a show (where various TV show hosts from the American version of the above two networks shows were building a dream cottage or cabin). In the episode he took it upon himself to build multiple hidden storage spots throughout the house. His skill and execution was impressive. I'd hazard a guess that there is no way Katie would have made it to the finale. Together they made a great team, however it was surely his knowledge of multiple materials, what tools to use to work these materials, and of course how best to use these tools to obtain the desired effect.

Q: "Where did the Survivors go to the bathroom?" A: Each tribe had to dig their own toilet pit in the bushes, a safe distance from camp. No toilet paper was issued so they used leaves or other improvised items. oK SEE THAT MAKES SENSE. but going in the water makes no sense at all. No way would I do that. You would be in your own waste. yuck. I knew they had to be providing something for the girls issues of course someone would be having a period while there. Glad to hear they do at least take them into consideration and provide for them. Hope none of those leaves are the poison variety! comments from Rob Cesternino about how the bathroom situation worked. For me it consisted of. Find a tree. Dig a hole next to the tree Remove pants Hold on to the tree and squat over the hole. Find a large leaf It's not great, but it wasn't a disaster either. The good news is that you don't do this much because you're not eating. Alex from my season went about 3 weeks without having to go. This link is from a staff camera man he has some good information he is sharing. http://www.survivorjunkies.com/confessions-survivor-camera-crew-member/