I'm so excited!

Baltimore, MD 12/18/18, 3PM

I'm so happy.  Totally energized.  Having so much fun!

I can't sleep much at night.  So I get up, When I wake up. At 3AM or 4AM when I can't go back to sleep.

I can't afford to waste time in bed if I'm not sleeping.  So I get up to work on my project.  Until my eyes get blurry from looking at the computer.  Then I know it's time to go back to bed and I'll be able to catch a few hours of sleep.  If I'm lucky.

Normally I get 9 or 10 hours of sleep.  Not now. I'm too excited.

"What?", you say, "is this all about"?

My lovely "neighborhood" in Nova Scotia is threatened with an ecological disaster:  "Clear-Cutting". That's what they do when they cut down all the trees in a forest which kills not only the trees, but also the wild animals, and ruins the soil.

It wreaks havoc on endangered species, including that noblest of creatures, the largest animal in Nova Scotia, the endangered Moose.

So why "am I so happy"?  Well, I wasn't when I first heard about this.  In fact, I didn't go to the meeting in town to learn more about it.  I didn't want to think about it.  There was nothing I could do. I was returning to the USA in a couple of days.

But, I'm happy, now, because I'm building a "Killer App" which I think may make a difference.  It could stop the Clear-Cutting.   OK, maybe that's a bit far fetched.  My three nearest neighbors think it's hopeless. "Nothing can stop it", they say.

Oh.  I should point out when I say "near" referring to neighbors it's all relative.  The third closest "neighbor" is over 2 miles away.  That's a lot of the charm of rural Nova Scotia where I have my country home:  "SeaBrook".  So-called because it is bounded by a Brook and the Sea.

This is a wonderful part of the natural world.

A beautiful forest surrounding a lake across the road which empties into the brook flowing past my property and then out to sea

And that's the way I want to keep it!

I know. It's a long shot.  But "nothing ventured ..."

Gotta run.  Don't have time to write.  Gotta get back to my "Killer App".  But I wanted to tell you about this and record what happens. In real time.

I'll try to take some time tomorrow to fill you in. A lot has happened. Just in the last few days.

Thanks for reading!