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A Big SHOUT OUT to John Rich who won Celbrity Apprentice last night! John was my pick from the beginning! Thank you Jesus and God Bless St. Jude's Research Hospital and all the children who go there.

I have learned to love and respect Star Jones simply because of what she had to put up with from NeNe Leakes. How did Mr. Trump find that woman? I better leave that alone.

Marlee Matlin was and still is a winner in my book too!


Did you get to make a 1600 jelly roll quilt this weekend? I did not.

Now that it's Monday I realize just how fast the weekends really do go by. I am always sad on Monday mornings. My husband goes back to work, my son is usually at school or elsewhere, and after about 9 a.m. it's just me and Buster. I'm so glad I have him to keep me company :-) This is an older photo of my 12 year old AKC Boston Terrier. At that time his eyes were still brown. Since he has developed a nasty cornea disease which is common in his breed. It causes the cornea to turn a whitish-blue. You can read about CED here.


I have some doll parts hanging on the line to dry. I just LOVE tea-staining my raggy prim dolls. I think Brenda over at Lillie Mae's Crafts is just wonderful. I love making her dolls.

I want to make my DH a quilt for Father's Day (dont worry, he never reads blogs and doesnt even know I have one) I need to get a jelly roll to make the speedy strip quilt, because the one I have now is "Flowers" by Moda, and not exactly my honey's colors :-)

Hope you all have a great day! I must go check my eagle cams before I get up and try to be somewhat productive. Peace.

Baby Eagles, Hyperlinks and a QUILT Top in an Hour

I have become addicted to anything and EVERYTHING related to eagles and LIVE eagle cams! Apparently, hidden cams have been around a few years, researchers planting them in the nests of bald eagles. You get to watch entire families as they lay eggs and then hatch before your eyes. I love to watch the paternal habits of the Ma and Pa eagle, their hourly feedings, Pa flying in with a whole duck (literally!), the sibling rivalries of the lets (thats a baby eaglet)...they can be so mean!! But soon they will be off to college. lol. OH YES! I am geeky this way.

I blogged about the Decorah eagles some time back. Those three eaglets are still in the nest but will be fledging (lol, I'm eagle-literate) SOON, maybe this week.

I will definitely CRY. It's like, so FINAL and sad. No wonder parents in real life suffer from "empty-nest syndrome".......

You can see the Decorah babies here. They live in a tree in Decorah, Iowa. It's been one of my favorites. I want to thank Benita for posting about an eagle cam on her facebook page. Had it not been for her post I would have never known about the eagle cams. Her website is one of my favorites too.

I am happy to say that I finally figured out how to turn my words blue and link it to something I love. Which, depending on what day it is could be anything from a recipe forum to watching spinal surgery on YouTube. I love LINKS. Like this.

Have you all seen the fast and furious QUILT TOP you can make in less than an hour???? NO I AM SERIOUS! It's popping up everywhere.

Here is a link with the info and VIDEO (I loooove vdeos!). It will make one approx 48 x 64! This is my kind of quilting I tell ya!!! All you need is a jelly roll. You can add borders and make it even bigger. For those of us who dont have a 5-digit priced longarm, we can stitch-in-the-ditch with this one! YAY! They call it a 1600 quilt....you sew the strips end to end and end up with one long strip that measuers about 1600 inches. FUN FUN FUN!

Please send me your pics if you have made one. I am working on a photo pool. I am trying to get away from Facebook. My DH HATES it. He absolutely HATES it. He thinks I waste my time. What he doesn't realize is that my brain is a sponge and I READ more than anything. I obssess. I roll like that. I can tell you the history and every minute detail about bald eagles and their life spans. I get hung up on different topics all the time and I delve into them, study them, GOOGLE and read my brains out. Then when I get bored I will move on to learn something else. Right now I am trying to master tea-staining primitive raggedy annie-type dolls. Also, I can tell you that on this date back in 1819, the first steamship named Savannah crossed the Atlantic ocean. Today is the birthday of my favorite DWTS winner ever-ever-ever...Apolo Anton Ohno!!!

Go sew that jelly roll quilt and send me a pic! Check back in a day or two. You might learn something new. I always do.............L~