*Please forgive the grammatical errors. I'm on high alert ⚠️ for we are missing a mama eagle!
UPDATE! 10:13AM.
Jackie finally returned to the nest! Naughty bird! I was all ready to Matlock TF out of Big Bear Lake! These eagles are literally THE ONLY thing that makes sense in 2026. We can't afford to lose them now. Thank you for coming home.
Daddy Shadow of the Big Bear Lake eagle duo has been on the nest of eggs since yesterday afternoon, over night, more than 15 hours at this point with no mama Jackie in sight. Oh dear. At dawn when Shadow relieves mama Jackie on the nest so she can eat, stretch her wings, and do her thing, this morning Jackie did not come to relieve Shadow. I've followed this eagle duo for three winter seasons now and I have never seen Shadow on the nest this long let alone overnight. Jackie wouldn't let him. I pray nothing has happened to Jackie. Eagles eat at least two pounds of food a day and sometimes store extra food in their crop. I read they can go up to 2 days without eating if there is food stored. Nonetheless, Shadow will need to leave the nest to eat.
Shadow just left the nest for a couple minutes to do another fly around. He just called out for her. Why doesn't he keep calling out for her like she does? When Jackie wants off the nest in the morning she calls out for Shadow like an angry Karen over a parking spot. When Jackie needs a break from the nest she calls out for Shadow like she wants off the nest now - RIGHT NOW - like get your wings over here right now buddy! But no. He's patient. Keeping the eggs warm. Waiting for her to come home. We're all waiting for Jackie to come home. OMG the stress. Imma 'bout ready to call Keith Morrison.
Daddy Shadow on the nest his morning wondering where Jackie has gone for so long and if his life mate is okay. Poor guy.
It's now 7:48am. Still no Jackie. Sadly, I don't think she's coming home. Shadow has tried to leave the nest at least five times this morning but he hears the other birds near his nest and flies back within minutes to protect his eggs.
(According to daddy Google) RCK Properties are constructing the "Moon Camp" luxury housing near the Big Bear Lake eagle nest. 13 minute drive according to Google maps. Conservationists have raised a decent amount of money to try stopping the construction or at the very least halting the construction until these eggs have hatched and the chicks have fledged, so like July. Then Jackie and Shadow would most likely relocate somewhere else. But no, RCK Properties would not halt construction. Time is money. A contract is a contract and people get paid regardless. Just ask the city of Summerlin when they screwed the pooch on the construction of that luxury golf course. Summerlin lost millions of dollars and had a hiring freeze over the city as a result. People lost out on work because of a botched golf course deal. Who raised these people?!
SO the question is, do we think RCK Properties have it in them to hunt these beloved eagles down and I say 💯 they absolutely do. AND I don't think they realize how beloved these eagles are. AND according to daddy Google, a first conviction of killing a bald eagle can result up to one year in prison and fines up to $100K to 200K for organizations.
Sadly, we must come to terms with the possibility these eggs are lost. Shadow will have to leave the nest eventually to eat.
Luxury resort. Like that's what this country needs, more rich creeps destroying mother earth and wildlife for a luxury resort.
This is far from over.
I've started mourning Jackie. I wish I could have Shadow's hope but I do not.
God creates, man destroys (as he always does).
I love these eagles so much.
A missing momma bald eagle with eggs in the nest is not a good look for a neighboring luxury resort under construction.
*Please forgive the grammatical errors. I'm legally blind so who knows what I'm typing. Certainly not me. 😏
Hello there. 😚
Iknowright?!
Now do Pam Bondi!
And Pete Hegseth, this idiot can go also!
I'm with you, Earth.
Protestants, if true to Christian faith are conscientious objectors. Doesn't mean they won't serve in the military, they just won't kill anyone in the name of war. Someone else's war. A politician's war. When was the last time an American president lead any military branch into war or fought alongside the military in combat? According daddy Google 1814, James Madison. The only sitting president to fight - the battle of Bladensburg, the defeat followed by a stronger defense (against the British) that inspired the Star Spangled Banner.
This idiot can go too. I gave up cigarettes and drinking for my health. You would have to pry my Starbucks oat milk latte out of my cold dead hands at any age before ever listening to this guy. Back in the day we teenagers used other "methods" pulling an all nighter but then again this administration approve those "methods" just not lattes apparently. 😏
Ohmmm. Go to the prairie, Lisa. Go back to your childhood prairie. Ohmmm.
I love my morning walks. You never know when you might happen upon a few birds just doing their Blood Sugar Sex Magic thang. 🪶
Speaking of magic. Lookie what the big Bear eagles have done! 🥚🥚
Another egg!
The power of mother nature. The power of wildlife. These eagles. 💓 Makes my heart swell with love. It's so easy getting trapped in the emo world of politics and doom scrolling you don't even notice it bleeds you out. There's nothing more peaceful and romantic than the silent magnificence of a sunrise. I'm jealous of birds. They fly above all the nonsense and stupidity of human beings.
I'm going to fall madly in love in 2026, and remarry. I've been single since 2012. Its time. I'm just throwing it out into the universe.
Knowing what I went through with my divorce in 2012 people might wonder why I would ever want to get married again. For those who think that, makes me wonder if those people have ever been deeply in love. Being in love is the best! To be clear, I didn't want a divorce, I had to get one before one of us ended up on Dateline. I was still in love with my husband when I divorced him. That divorce broke my heart into seemingly irreplaceable shattered pieces. I would have loved my husband forever had that love been reciprocated.
When I filed for divorce I used the free court services. Los Angeles Superior courthouse has free legal services. Very generous and kind attorneys and legal professionals donate their time to help people not spend a fortune to get divorced. You have to get there early in the morning however. First come first serve and their cut off time for the day is like 11am. Legal advice filing the paperwork was free thanks to them. However, my ex-husband got a lawyer because he didn't want to do what the law requires him to do (split assets 50/50 from the time we were married until we legally seperated) he thought he was above the law and got an attorney. Fool. Thus I had to get an attorney. His attorney kept goating my ex into taking me to court repeatedly so he would have to pay her legal fees, that is, until the judge finally looked at his attorney square in the face and pretty much said, "If I see the four of you in my courtroom again I'll know who to blame." No lawyer wants to piss off a judge they'll have to face again some day, so that was the end of my ex's attorney milking him for everything she could get her grubby fat hands on. My ex was forced to do what the judge had originally ordered. The judge was no fool, only my ex. In the end the attorneys won. And still, I'm such a hopeless silent romantic at heart, I want to marry again. I loved being married. I love being in love. No woman gets married and stays married unless she wants to BE married especially in Los Angeles, a no fault state where getting divorced is easy-peazy compared to other states that allows couples to accuse each other in court of cheating, etc.
At 57 years of age we ain't getting divorced hon. No time. We'll both die of old age before the ink on a divorce even dries.
Exactly my guy. Not just with cooking though.
I married my husband because he reminded me of my childhood home. He's Swedish, soft spoken, no temper, no yelling, no fighting, no drama. We ate the same foods, liked the same films, have the same retirement goals, and he's my age. He reminded me 💯 of the boys I grew up with - of the boy I would have married had I stayed in Minnesota. Our problem, I'm utterly convinced, was because he grew up poor not having money and the moment he saw how much both our incomes accumulated (with no children) in just nine years he couldn't help but spend spend spend. I already did the math before we got married. I knew after 10 to 15 years we could both retire younger than most and do some extensive traveling. Alas, the money got him. It really broke my heart. But like they say, its either sex and/or money that ruins a marriage if the couple lets it. And no, I never checked our checking account. I spent my daily tips, had direct deposit for my paychecks, and he paid all the bills. I trusted him.
♥️
My favorite thing on the internet right now:
I love, absolutely 💯 LOVE fun beefs on social media.
That McDonalds CEO guy had it coming tho.
Are we bringing back the Andy Warhol/burger parodies? Even Warhol enjoyed his product burger more than that McDonalds CEO robot dude.
I got off track.
AND ANOTHER THING
Gals, work, don't work, whatever, free country (for now) but just know there's a 90% chance you'll be doing all the housework, cooking, cleaning, and raising kids if you have them on top of working a full time job, because he will 90% chance expect you to still take care of him and the house as is your "duty" in the marriage. Which is why I cannot stress enough marriage counseling for those under 40 years of age with your pastor, priest, or professional therapist BEFORE getting married. Marriage counseling before getting married, not after.
I share a bathroom with a male housemate and I will never understand WHAT he could possibly be doing in the bathroom where he literally throws buckets of water all over the counter, and splashes a ton of toothpaste dots all over every mirror (three of them on opposite walls!) and sprays clorex bleach (somewhere) yet never cleans anything. I do all the cleaning. I take out the bathroom trash. I clean up after him. I do it every day because I cannot live in filth. It's no wonder he's single. He's a young man in his 30's. He should be in a mature adult loving relationship with someone his age living his best life but he's not because he would rather have this old gal clean up after him. It's sad really. Men will never recover from the male loneliness epidemic for as long as he clings on to mommy's apron strings. Isn't that what made men like Ed Gein? We're going to have a string of new white male serial killers. Mark my words.
This guy jokes around a lot but... it's funny 'cos it's true.
Ladies, get yours. That's all's I'm saying. 👇🏼😄
ANYWAY
Back home in Las Vegas. Summer is creeping up on us. Next week it will be in the 90's. I got this UV umbrella off Amazon. It's supposed to cool you under it by 10 to 15 degrees. We'll see soon enough.
Amazon doing me dirty yet again. The summer blouses I bought off Prime were supposed to be delivered yesterday along with my umbrella but (sigh) no they will come today. We'll see. I had something to do today but now I'll be home waiting for my package so no one Jacks it from my front door should it actually be delivered today.
I'm terribly impatient. I keep it all in until it will kill me eventually. There are some nights where I'm like:
"This is the big one!"
Dear future husband, get life insurance policies on me. I'll sign. I'm def going before you. Amen!
All you grown adult het fellas still clinging on to mommy's apron strings who claim to be Christians... Bro, literally on page 2!
Therefor shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
I'm reminded of prior wisdom from this First Lady, "When they go low, we go high." Trump and his entire administration only know how to go low. Not surprising he went low again. I mean, his supposed "staffer" went low again insulting this couple. 🙄 Only three more years ladies and gentlemen. Three more years of Trump. 😒
Generally speaking I liked Mrs Obama's politics more than her husband's. I usually do regarding our presidents. Current president & first lady excluded. Could the current First Lady be any more useless?
This is a beautiful shared photo. We should all be so lucky to earn a lasting marriage like theirs. 30+ years and going strong. Anyone insulting their love and marriage is just jealous.
Sadly, I know how it is to be emotionally broken. I been there for over half my life. What a waste. The only plus side to a downward spiral are the stories and wisdom gained from such a perilous journey when you eventually land at rock bottom. The awarded clarity to see horrible people for what they are is a blessing and a curse. You can lead their sheep to water but you cannot make them drink no matter how thirsty.
The movie industry remade Wurthering Heights (sigh) again. It's a gothic English novel written by Emily Brontë in the mid 1800's about young love, poisonous wounds, mature betrayal, and mature revenge, back when literature still penned emotions that ran deep, rich, hard and true for all eternity. That said, the new film, like it or not has Margot Robbie in it but I love her. I've loved her since Mary Queen of Scots. Are the two main character actors too old in this new adaptation, yes, but let's give it a chance before we dismiss it all together. Here's the trailer.
This film is getting really bad reviews. I have not seen it yet but apparently the film maker went so far off script he turned it into a softcore porn.
Question: Whats the difference between art and pornography.
Answer: This film (apparently. I have not seen it yet.)
It takes writers to make readers. It takes readers to make writers. As much as I love films the film industry has no writers obviously or they wouldn't be remaking the same film over and over and over.
As a Gen X elder I beleved romance was only good for books not real life. Raised Stoic, feelings were for artists and poets, useless in every day life. Perhaps thats why I became an artist once upon a time desparately searching for something. Raised Christian, kindness and generosity are for those who have less than you. So what did that leave us? This is the struggle older adults must now face. If kindness and feelings were for everyone else, what do we have? When you're young you can afford to be hardened, you can afford to be selfish, you can afford to not want for anything. Be warned, it will all catch up with you in your 40's, should you still live, when you're not young and adorable anymore.
Wurthering Heights is a gothic novel like The Count of Monte Cristo, which has also been remade over and over and over, but now with this modern sexual spin can it still be called Wurthering Heights? The remake of Road House should have definitely been called NOT Road House.
Its strange to me how so many of us want more, seek more feeling and emotion but continue to do everything in the world to sabotage ourselves from getting it. Is modern technology to blame? Who knows. The world needs more writers and readers. I recently clapped back at a photographer who was being dismissive towards digital photography. Being a film photographer doesn't make you any better, sir, if when I look at your photo I still feel nothing different than five minutes ago. Photography, once upon a time wasn't even considered art. Still isn't among the bougie snobs.
If you're a Margot Robbie fan like me she was on Smartless recently and is without question one of their better episodes.
Day 9 on the mend from the flu last week. It turned into a basic cold now. Still fighting phlegm but not as much. Still coughing, wheezing and sneezing.
Big Bear Lake had its first winter snowstorm. So beautiful. Aside from the mountain spins, Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead are California absolute must sees. If you love nature, bird watching, camping, hiking, everything to do with the outdoors, Big Bear is the place.
UPDATE
Well well well. Exciting!
Jackie laid another egg. 💛
I don't know about you but I'll be watching this egg intently. We may not get another winter season with these eagles. They may move due to reported pending construction. More wildlife ripped apart. Irony. These people construct in places to be closer to nature meanwhile tearing apart the very nature to construct. They never get it. They never will.
It's been raining in Vegas all night. I love rain especially at night. It somehow makes everything you're doing have meaning except doom scrolling of course which is what I'm doing. I started off searching short stylish hairdos and somehow ended up on my IG page doom scrolling reels. The kids have a "new" hairstyle they're calling "the wolf cut". If you're Gen X you know this haircut as the Coverdale, or the Bon Jovi shag. Never no mind it was also a style by Blondie before either fellas.
2026 I still love this hairstyle.
My generation gets all grumpy when the kids take something they hear and see and make it theirs like it's never been done before, much like how we all ignore "stupid is as stupid does" as being first penned in Dicken's David Copperfield, "handsome is as handsome does" describing Copperfield's cruel but handsome stepfather. Whatever. It belongs to Forrest Gump now until the kids declare it theirs for their own thing. At my age I couldn't care less. I know the argument, "What if it was your work?" Trust me, my last blog ran over ten years and I've seen my writing all over elsewhere. If you're going to post online someone will 💯 "borrow" it. What's that saying about imitation and flattery? Nah. If someone I deem relevant gets their underwear in a knot over something I wrote, and it has happened trust me, that's when I know YOU KNOW what I'm saying has more relevant fact than fiction and that secret bond is more flattering to me than someone "borrowing" my scribblings. I don't write shock. My Midwest upbringing won't allow it. Besides, shock is the most temporary writing "style" on the planet. Why be temporary. To thyself be true. See what I did there. 😏
DAY 10 of this annoying post flu-cold-congestion-thing. I'm coughing, sneezing, battling phlegm like:
And because I'm still so heavily congested I sound sick even though this is the last thing I'm dealing with post flu. No fever or anything like that. Every time I take an antihistamine it knocks me out for the day leaving me groggy the next day. Its funny to me how the 80's and 90's were the most drug fueled functional years of my life but at 57 an antihistamine puts me down for 30 hours.
Are we back to thinking the Apollo 11 moon landing in '69 never happened? Oh goodie. I love a conspiracy. No really, I do. I have questions regarding this moon landing like why was the planted flag waving? What wind? Its the moon. There's no wind on the moon. And why do the footprints on the moon not match the space shoes? WHY. 😏 THIS and both Kennedy assassinations along with Marilyn Monroe are two conspiracies I can talk about until the day I die. Don't even get me started on 9/11.
AND ANOTHER THING
We all know that's Ghislaine Maxwell in Canada, eh. We all saw that Quebec clip right? That's totally her. No way is she still in jail. She wasn't "moved" to a different jail she was released and sent to Canada. Convince me otherwise.
Recently some folks got all upset over alter boys jumping in the Tiktok ring using social media to connect with America's youth. Which tells me these whiners never went to church with their parents ever or they would have seen/heard some things waaay worse than these alter boys goofing around doing social media trends. All the adults back in the day got absolutely wasted after church on Bloody Mary's and 7and7's. Wasted! Things got said that will haunt us kids FOREVER. Raised in an almost entirely German community I heard more bloody anti Hitler/anti Russian jokes that I dreaded every time someone said "knock-knock", and while Hitler, bad, yes, we all agree, Christian kids back in the day could have used more harmless Tiktok trends than knock-knock jokes that ended with something you would have heard in a SAW movie. Times were different then. There was no political correctness and everyone drank including the clergy. Its funny to me how people now think everything is a sin except for actual Biblical sins. Christian kids doing the Tiktok pony trend is NOTHING you bunch of Nancies. Our upbringing made Purge films. Your upbringing made mukbangs. See the difference.
Being a Christian doesn't mean you lose your sense of humor or personal struggles. I still struggle with God-swearing. My dad used to lose a hair every time I said it. Additionally I miss smoking cigarettes and I would LOVE a martini but that's my struggle. I don't judge other people if that's their thing. I don't judge. I may criticize other more serious matters but I don't judge. We know the difference between right and wrong. We know. Its those hypocrites who know the difference but choose to ignore righteousness for selfishness and sin against others that deserve our scorn.
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the alter that sanctifieth the gift?
Whoso therefor shall swear by the alter, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
MATHEW 23:19-20
Not all people are meant to be Christian. That's cool do your thing but in doing so admit you know the difference between right and wrong. Admit that much to yourself. I have a healthy tolerance for people who criticize Christianity. Still, it's just so interesting to me how I can embrace non-Christians in silence yet they cannot find it in themselves to return that embrace in equal silence. Atheists seem to enjoy announcing they're atheists and mansplaning how they are (somehow) superior. In the end, whatever my guy, you do you. Its entirely up to individuals if they rather be embraced or be right.
My new favorite thing on social media:
I'm feeling good enough this morning post-flu I might actually venture over to the strip. It's been a few years. I realize I might regret my decision the moment I get there but I think its still early enough in the season where throngs of tourists won't be the issue. It's those nonstop catwalks and escalators that can put me in a mood. Still, today marks my 5 year anniversary surviving a stroke which only about 60% of us are blessed to make. Might as well enjoy the Las Vegas weather before it turns 120⁰ out, yes. God bless us all.
Okay bye! Not all preachers wear ministry frocks. 👇🏼😄
