Survivor

There is not much to report other than the fact Miss Whitney has an opinion about a lot of things and we tend not to have the same opinion.  It will be most interesting next week when the Upolu tribe has to finally start making the hard decisions about who stays and who goes. That will be fun :)

Survivor

Sorry I missed last week, I was out of town, but I did manage to catch the show and all I can say about that is holy crap, Rancher Rick survived by the grace of a nerd.  I was eager to find out how it all played out this week and here goes. Cochran has secured his safety for the time being, much to the distaste of his former tribe members.  In a surprise to us, there were 2 tribal councils held sending Ozzy then Jim to Redemption Island with Keith.  Obviously the plan is to pick off the Savaii Tribe members one by one, but once they are gone, then how will they determine who stays and who goes????Also perplexing us just a bit is how they are going to do eliminations from Redemption Island with 3 people being there.
We can't wait for next week.

Survivor

After a tough tribal, it is clearly apparent that not everyone on the Upolu tribe is as on the same page as they want everyone to think.  Brandon's unpredictable nature is catching up to him, which is good for our local Rancher. Stability is a good thing to have in an alliance.

The two returning Survivor alumni each made some interesting and bold moves this week.  Coach's decision to bring out the idol shortly after he and Brandon led prayer to find it, did not impress. It is hard to be impressed by someone that is being dishonest and misleading people, especially when one of them is the one you are rooting for.  Although, Rick is smarter than Coach thinks, so hopefully he was onto him.   Ozzy's decision to sacrifice himself to Redemption Island was  a far more impressive move. It looked as if he may go back on his "worst case scenerio" move, but he held true to his word.  For his sake, we hope it was the right decision. 

If the merge is on the horizon, we are sincerely hoping this will be Rick's time to shine and finally let everyone see the personality that we know & love :)

Survivor

He speaks!!!!!  Not surprisingly enough, he gets the finger for the first thing we've heard from him in a while :).  To say Christine is bitter towards her former tribe mates may be a bit of an understatement.  But the girl is hanging in there defeating Elyse in her 4th Redemption win.

The dissension in the Savaii tribe is short lived, as Ozzy throws a fit, pouts and gets over being blindsided by the last tribal council in a hurry.  Probably a good idea as there is another immunity challenge coming up and going to Tribal Council again might be quite unpleasant.  What a challenge it was, much like my beloved Dallas Cowboys the Upolu tribe has a fantastic start and a huge lead thanks to the great teamwork by Rick and Brandon, but blows it in the second half of the challenge when Coach and Mikayla can't seem to get their coconuts to fly, giving Savaii tribe immunity. 

Strength and loyalty seemed to be the theme of the day dividing, Coach, Brandon and Edna against Albert, Sophie and Mikayla leaving Rick to be the deciding vote. Each side has a strong argument about who should go and why and it is obvious Rick is the swing vote.  As he so eloquently put it "You are damned if you do and you are damned if you don't". Truer words were never spoken, but in the end you have to do what you feel is best for your own survival and loyalty won out over strength sending Mikayla to Redemption Island. 

Survivor

I do not know where this week went, but it is over now.  I know I am a day late with my Survivor spill, but here it is.  Stacey's trip to Redemption Island was short lived, but she made sure to not waste any time giving the other tribe an earful on what was going on over at Upolu.  Beaten in the duel by her friend Christine, Stacey said good bye to Survivor.

By far the most disgusting challenge ever, but squeaking by was Upolu, giving our local rancher another week for us to watch.  He did have a little more to say this time and was genuinely thrilled with the challenge. Lucky for him Mikayla picked up the piece of meat that he dropped, it was surely the 2 ounces that put them over the top.

We all agreed the blindside made by the Savaii tribe was classic.  Poor Elyse & Ozzy had no idea what was up. I guess laying in the hammock all day keeps you from catching onto the buzz going around the tribe.  Cochran has become quite the puppet master or so he thinks.  You have to hand it to the kid, he knows how to play the game. 

We are excited to see what happens next week :) it should be good.

Survivor

So Rick does say something, by his own admission it was lame, and unfortunately we have to agree.  But, we are also well aware of strategy, strategy, strategy and insulting your tribe members is not part of a good strategy.  However, it does not help those of us that know Rick and know what a great personality he has look like we know what the heck we are talking about.  But the point of the game is to survive until the end and he is there for another 3 days, so that makes us happy. 

We all agree we would like to see Brandon go, we all get a chuckle out of Cochran, and they made the right decision in tribal council.  It will be interesting seeing Christine and Stacy face off on Redemption Island next week.  Once again, we can only hope that our local rancher's strategy keeps paying off.

Survivor Recap

I am not sure I understand the spoken word, but after an extremely interesting and rather long rendition from Semhar, the first dual to remain on Redemption Island began, ultmately sending Semhar and her words home. 

Once again our local rancher stunned us with his silence.  Of course it would be difficult to get a word in with Brandon and all of the drama spilling out of his mouth.  For someone who does not like drama, the guy can sure create it.  It is unanimous we all think he needs to go. 

As for Rick, he was awesome at the challenge, as was the entire Upolu tribe earning themselves immunity from tribal council.  As for the Savaii tribe, it made for some rather entertaining television with Papa Bear trying to trick his tribe into thinking he had the hidden immunity idol by running around all sorts of crazy like and going so far as to make a package to stuff in his pants that resembled an idol. By far the best comment of the night came from Cochran along the lines of Papa Bear returning to camp with " a rather large bulge in his pants". Bulge or not, no one seemed to fall for the fake idol scheme, ultimately sending Papa Bear to Redemtion Island to face off with Christine. 

Here's keeping our fingers crossed we at least hear SOMETHING from Rick next week :)

Rancher Rick- Under the Radar

Just so you know, that is the least we have ever heard Rick Nelson say.  Now I understand this is a 1 hour show and it is several hours of film edited to make it a 1 hour show, but seriously knowing Rick,  I would have expected a little more.  I also understand strategy, and I am certain that Rick knows how to play the game and keeping just enough under the radar in the beginning is a good plan.

Regardless, there was a little bit of drama in the Upolu Tribe that made for some really interesting TV.  We are so over the entire Brandon is Russell's Nephew. Really, Who Cares?????  We did find it rather humorous that he is so incredibly freaked out by Mikayla, its not really her fault that she is the cutest girl in the tribe and he can't handle it.  It would be a foolish move to vote out the strongest female player for nothing other than being attractive.  Luckily, Coach put the little white lie Brandon told him about Stacey and Christine voting for Mikayla out on the table and it backfired :) Funny how Brandon didn't end up putting Mikaylas name down either.  However, in the end, Christine getting voted out was obviously the best move.  And all the while during this tribal council, not a word from Rick, unusual for sure.

Here is hoping next week our local rancher has more to say so that everyone can get to see Rick the way that we do :)

Survivor

Hopefully everyone saw last night's premier of Survivor: South Pacific.  We only got to see a glimpse of Rick's personality and humor, but we got to see what a hard worker and competitor he is with the immuity challenge.  He definately shined and did his part helping his tribe win immunity. 

He also was included in the 5 person alliance with Albert, Brandon, Coach and Sophie.  According to Coach, having a strong 5 will take you far and first day alliances are the strongest and it has been proven time & time again.  Sweet, this is right where we want our rancher from Utah to be :)

The Interview Hat

Beginning next Wednesday, the entire staff of Burns Saddlery in addition to several of their customers will be glued to the television for the premier of Survivor: South Pacific.

We are so excited to see one of our funnest customers, Rick Nelson, battle it out to become the next Survivor.  It will be easy to spot Rick as he is wearing one of 2 hats from Burns Saddlery in the show. We  call this one the "interview hat" as he has been wearing it on the interviews and meet the cast spots that have been on.

In the show he will mostly be wearing a black 20X hat that we also set him up with. He will be easy to pick out ,in addition to the fact that he is just so likeable and we are all predicting that he will be a favorite (of course we are a little biased). 

I can't wait to see how things play out and recap the show every Thursday starting next week. So set your DVR's!!!