To our fellow residents of Pinecone Meadows, thank you—truly—for your patience, your support, and your passive-aggressive Facebook posts over the last seven weeks. This journey has been long, chlorinated, and emotionally complex. However, as of 9:47 this morning, we have drained, deflated, and folded our ten-foot above-ground inflatable pool.
It is over.
The pool, which originally entered our lives during a late-night online purchase (sponsored ad, weak moment, 12 percent off), served us well on that almost-hot Saturday in May. Since then, it has mostly existed as a large, algae-tinged monument to optimism and poor impulse control.
We understand that some of you had… opinions.
Yes, we saw the Nextdoor thread titled: “Biodegradable Bog Forming on Alder Street?”
Yes, we received the handwritten letter that simply read: MOSQUITOES.
Yes, we heard the child whispering, “Mommy, is that where the witches live?” while walking past our yard.
