We have had a tornado kind of drama here-85 mile an hour winds last
Thursday.Been out of electricity and phone for awhile.  So I will not be
able to write back to all of you individually.
 
I could not get the police to stop the construction workers from cutting
down all of the trees in the wetlands behind my home the Saturday before
last.  And the town engineers were in all day meetings Monday and Tuesday.
And so-before anyone got out to the site : they were ALL torn down and
turned to pulp: every last tree and bush where my ferrets ran and romped
and dug.
 
There will be a heavy fine and a number of trees will have to be replaced.
-HA HA- 5 story giant beauties that were deliberately destroyed replaced
with little skinny trees.  I was the only person who called town and police
and EPA and newspapers Monday and Tuesday and complained.
 
The EPA has been wonderful.  And a few good people in town have not been
payed under the table and are sick about the loss.  10 acres of heavily
wooded wetlands demolished.  I have been busy with the newspapers, and
await an article this week.
 
NEver think that some one else is making that critical call.  YOU make it:
when you see someone assaulted, or see an accident, or see something that
appears to you to be suspicious.
 
Animals have been bulldozed into their dens and are dead.  Birds have lost
their homes.  A lovely white oppussum is running around right this minute
in broad daylight.  Her home has been demolished.  She no longer has her
babies with her.The racoons have totally disappeared.  So has the fox and
kitts that came back to their den a few weeks ago.
 
My ferrets grew up in these woods.  They rolled in the earth and dragged me
through the brambly bushes and high grasses.  It is a big loss for us.  It
was like a little touch of heaven here.
 
I just came home with a new computer so I will not have to look out on the
deliberate ignorant ravages before me.  The blinds will be pulled tight in
this room, and I will drown my sorrows trying to put together this exotic
cobalt blue and white burl wood stereo system I got because it looked so
pretty and tiny.  After that I will be trying to put the computer stuff
together.  Then I will get my Visa bill and be depressed all over again.
 
I may not be on-line for awhile.  It took me literally years to figure out
how to get on FML with my current computer.
 
Kisses to all of you stinky ferrets-all over your precious faces.
God bless all who are ill.
 
In the morning now I open my eyes and look out the window.  There before me
are large hills of pulp-several stories high.  They smoke as the sun rises.
It is as though the souls of all of these butchered trees are drifting to
heaven.  These giant living beauties-murdered.
 
I bury my face in my ferrets fur and thank God for their love.
 
Lisette
[Posted in FML issue 3065]