Smells kinda fishy

Usually it's pretty nice to live in a house that's right next to a park. Even nicer if that park has a nice little lake. Not so for the residents that live near Leclaire Lake Park in Edwardsville this summer. Thankfully I live down the road from this park and not next to it. You see, over time the lake has silted in and the shoreline is eroding pretty badly too. So this summer the city (with the help of a state grant) is dredging the lake and improving the shoreline. It took about 2 weeks to pump out the lake. Turns out the damn thing was only about 2-3 feet deep in most places. The city made an effort to remove some fish, but they didn't get them all. Apparently there were some big'uns in there. When I rode past yesterday evening I thought I saw a big hose in the lake bed. Turns out it was about ten or twelve big fish that didn't get caught so now they're just going to rot in the sun. Lots of little ones too.

When I was coming back home from driving all over StL last night, I was able to smell the rottenness from 1/3 mile away. Sure must suck to live next door to the lake right now.




In other news, yesterday was my third consecutive day of riding. Woo hoo! Looking forward to racing some cyclocross in Carbondale this weekend. I miss my cross bike. We rode a bunch of singletrack on it Tuesday, and my triceps are still a bit sore from that. Amazingly, I'm not dead from all of last nights run ups. Those hurt.
I bought my four wheeled baby some new shoes this week. She rolls a lot quieter now. In the future I think I'll pay more attention to routine maintenance and rotate them tires more often.