I'm learning as I go....
Blockchain provides a list of unconfirmed transactions(https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions?format=json). So I add a coin generation transaction(still lost on how to do this) to the top of the list and create a merkle tree from this list. This is how I get the Merkle root for my newly minted header. Now I perform the SHA256(SHA256(Block_Header)). Now through my coding wizardry I find a hash with the appropriate number of leading zero's in the first round(yea, I'm that good, lucky or whatever....). Any idea on how to send this winning header to the collective? I can't see (or don't know where to look for) documentation on this from Blockchain.
Once again, thanks everyone for the help.