Decorah, White Rock, Sidney, and Nelly the Rag Doll

Hello to all my followers, few as you are! I never thought I would sit for hours on end watching live eagle cams. But I can, so I am.
Here's one of my favorites, from Decorah, Iowa!

(since I havent figured out how to put a blue link right here please copy & paste and bear with me)

www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles

Please comment below and tell me what you think! And please email me at cocobeanzcreations@yahoo.com if you have blogging how-to instructions for dingbat bird watchers, like myself!

There are many nests on wildearth.tv!! It should be a requiremet of life that you go and see them. I will list them for you. Just remember to C&P until I learn how to make a link for you.

One of the nests is in Canada, the Sidney nest, I can barely stand to watch. There are now 3 baby eaglets. They are so cute but one of them, the biggest one, pecks the others and is soooo mean when Ma or Pa bring in food, and many times the two little ones dont get as much. Oh, I have to quit fretting about these birds. They are in CANADA for crying out loud.
http://www.wildearth.tv/sidney-eagle-nest-02

Newly hatched baby eagly with one egg yet to hatch is this nest (this one is in HD and has awesome color)
http://www.wildearth.tv/hwf-whiterock-01

But. It's important that people, like me, keep up with stuff like this. We're talking about BALD EAGLES people. Up close and personal!
People actually make a living studying them (why I didn't decide to do that as a career I will always regret)
Three babies were banded this morning and the video for that will be up soon!
Who would NOT want to see that!!
You can read about the banding and watch this nest too! The babies are safely back in their nest.

http://www.wvec.com/marketplace/microsite-content/eagle-cam.html

Moving on ---its Easter weekend and my birthday----and instead of partying it up like I used to do....I sit here making a rag doll named Nelly and watching the nests of SEVEN bald eagles and their babes. How much more to life is there????

Did you know an eagle nest can span up to 7 feet in diameter?

Love you all......all SEVEN of you!
p.s. getting new digital camera today and will post pics soon (none of me though! BLAH!)..and I promise next time I will know how to post the blue link so all you have to do is click and there you'll be!

Whatcha doin' to celebrate Easter?

Crying over a ham sandwich....and healing my heart with a Teddy Bear

Ya'll should be real proud of me! Two days in a row with a blog entry! Go Laurie!
I had to wait until I stopped crying though, before I could even see my keyboard :-(

WHY? OK. Just a while ago I heard my husband in the kitchen rustling around with grocery sacks (he takes his lunch in a used Kroger or Walmart sack, and not the NICE insulated ones I have spent top dollar on). Anyway, when I heard him in the kitchen I went to find he was packing his lunch. Normally, I always do it.
It ruffled my feathers.

Last evening, before Dancing With The Stars came on, I had been cutting out pattern pieces for a stuffed teddy bear (another story). It was during that time me and Big Daddy (what I have called my husband for 22 years) had an argument. A STUPID argument. Over miscommunication between two parents and a teenager. Nobodys fault other than MINE. Long Story and its pointless. So we argued, I got mad and upset......over NOTHING.

I went to bed mad and in complete silence. A No-No for ANYONE.

So this morning, when it was too late for me to make the lunch, and realized HE had to make it I started balling like a baby! I am a very sensitive person. I felt like the worst, meanest, hateful, unloving, ungiving, selfish wife that ever lived! Poor man had to fix his own lunch because his wife is a mean hateful you-know-what.

So, my inner voice told me to stop crying, say a prayer, and get LET IT GO. I have asked the Good Lord to let me live another day so I can make sure I pack him a wonderful lunch for work tomorrow....or better yet, make a fantabulous dinner tonight.

I am about to make my teddy bear........will blog about that as it ain't just any old teddy bear...that will get my mind off that ham sandwich and fighting with my husband. I never want to fight. I want to LOVE.

What was the point to all of this?
1. Never go to bed mad. With ANYONE. Never.
2. Always fix your husbands lunch to take to work! Stop sewing long enough, only takes a few minutes :-)
3. Communicate, and LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Now I am ready to start this day over on the right foot. It will haunt me forever though, living with the fact that I was mean to my husband and there were days he had to make his own lunch.

I can't wait for ya'll to see this teddy bear. I might name him Hammy.

Dolls, Strawberry Pie and Baby Eaglets

I am such a procrastinator ya'll.
I always say, that as much time as I spend on the computer, and the fact that I dont work at a job-job anymore, that I am going to be a BB.....Better Blogger and create and maintain an awesome blog. It's kinda pitiful right now. I have SIX followers. Love yall so much :-)

The fact is....I waste time. Like since Saturday morning I have been watching LIVE eagle cams, waiting for eggs to hatch, and watching proud parents drag road kill into the nest to feed the eaglets that are already born. For hours I did that. In fact I have 3 minimized in my window right now. Hey, what can I say? It's our National BIRD! It's quite interesting. BUT I didnt work on my blog.

Can I HIRE a blogger? I want tons of links and an entry every day! I dont know how all that stuff works...URLs, ACB's, JKL's (all that computer lingo).....but there is NO REASON I can't learn.

My husband (God Bless him!) always says, it's never too late! I made the most delicious strawberry pies yesterday. Not only delicious, but gorgeous. My friend Shanti, her food pics should be in magazines. See, if I knew how I would put a link to one of her food pics right HERE

The good thing is the internet is full of free education...and I've always been pretty smart...so I will learn how to BBB (be a better blogger, lol and hope that my following will GROW.
I am slowly working on a doll, and a quilt, and a machine cover, and this blog, and....well.... Let's just say that I've got lots to share with yall, even a video tutorial on my quilt binding method. If I did this correctly you can view my video here

I can tell you where you can check out one of my favorite the live eagle cams at They are going to band the eaglets Thursday...something fascinating you might want to check out! Don't worry, they are professionals and they do not hurt the babies!!

Have you made your family a strawberry pie? By the way, I am still working on my scrap quilt. It just got side tracked a little bit, especially since I found some awesome primitive Raggedy Ann style doll patterns at http://www.lilliemaescrafts.com/index.html (this is where you should be able to click the link and go straight to the dang thing!!)

I think Ive blabbed on the blog enough for now. Gotta go check on my baby birds, and study up on this blogging thing!

Please stay tuned :-)

Scraps and a sick Dog

Dear friends

I said I would be good and be a better blogger. The 3 B's lol. Anyway.....I decided to do something....retirement and chronic back pain are not going to keep me down in the dumps...so I got all the scraps I've accumulated since 2005, cut them up into all size stips ranging from 1.5" to 3". Gonna make a scrap strip quilt for my king size bed. Yeah, I know. A major undertaking. Oh well. It's very therapeutic and good for major depression.

Buster has congestive heart failure. He has been fine with no vet visits in 6 weeks. Until that dreaded cough started last night. We will be making a trip to the vet this morning. Please say a prayer for my sweet precious.

I sure hope I get more followers. I'm so much FUN! Right. I am going to learn to love this BLOGGING thing. And love to learn.....the links, etc. I am not a geek squad professional....Im a wife, mother, nurse and SUPERSTAR! Oh, but you knew that!