Goodbye Ponyo

It's been coming for awhile now.  Ponyo has not been herself and has just been laying on the bottom of her tank for months. She lost her desire to swim. We've had her for 8 or 9 years and she's always been Jared's fish and lived in his bedroom. 

The pump went wonky one day when we lived in Cold Lake and pumped out a bunch of water onto the fairly new hardwood.  That was a mess.  But other than that, Ponyo has been a pleasure to have around.  

When she was healthy, she would make us giggle with the way she did little backflips.  Whenever I came to feed her in the morning, she would get excited and swim like crazy to the corner where I always dropped her food.

We moved her to our new home in Theodore in an ice cream bucket.  She came along with her pet apple snail, who didn't live long because Ponyo's tank was too clean, and there wasn't enough algae to sustain the poor thing.  We buried the beautiful snail in our garden and Jared still brings it up.  I don't think he's ever really forgiven me for that.

Ponyo is now at rest in our freezer until the Spring when she will get a place of honour in our garden.

Thank-you sweet, little F-shish for being such a wonderful little spirit all these years.