Our town is more like a suburb. We are 15 minutes on a twinned highway from the largest city in our province. We are often referred to as “A Bedroom Community” becuase a HUGE majority, including my husband, commute from here to the city for work. As such, our town has made many improvements in terms of roads, infrastructure, and beautifying the town to attract more and more people to come to live here.
One very short block from our house is one of the more impressive features the town added to help beautify the town. its a HUGE football sized pond with a fountain in the center. At night, the fountain is lit up. its gorgeous! The houses surrounding the pond sell for more than a million bucks, which is a LOT when compared to the prices a short block away!
(I took this – Pretty sweet, eh?)
Because it is so close to our house, and has a nice walking path around it (that we hardly ever use), it is often where we go when we want to walk the kids or the dog. The pond is deep in the center, but quite shallow at the banks with a nice gravel shore that makes for a pleasant walk around. There are also approximately sixty eight bazzillion fish in the pond. (the boys love watching them).
Smokey LOVES the pond. She loves trying to catch the fish, she’s never been successful, her leash is only four feet long, but she loves to try! She also stops every two and a half steps to drink the pond water, and until tonight I thought nothing of it. What changed tonight was the algae coating the Outer Banks of the pond. It’s the thick green kind and it stinks!
When we saw the algae, despite Smokey’s rather vocal protests, we left the edge of the pond and went up to the paved walkway for our walk.
I know algae is gross, but would it have been dangerous for Smokey to walk in and drink? She pouted the entire walk and Hubs said we should find a new place to walk becuase she cried and whined for the pond the whole time.
