Now I Am Become Simon, The Destroyer Of Ponds.

Vera, who keeps a blog called that canadian girl, has a friend named Simon. Simon recently purchased a house, into which he moved with his family. This new house, while lovely, had a pond on the property; a man-made pond which Simon found loathsome and which he felt presented a danger to his two, young progeny. With this in mind he began the laborious chore of removing the offending pool and wiping the watery blight from the face of the Earth. Many hours later, Simon removed the lining and found beneath it this laminated screed, a testament to the psychic abilities of pond’s builder and a curse upon Simon, its destroyer:

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