Oh happy day
They fixed the fountain today!
The only major diappointment I’ve had with the new apartment is that the fountain in the courtyard didn’t work.
I really, really liked the idea of a fountain outside my living room window. I’d waited anxiously for the thaw. The thaw came and went.
No fountain.
As the weeks passed and the algae bloomed, the water turned from dingy dead-leaves brown to a lovely shade of green that nearly, but didn’t quite, match the lawn. Scum formed and it became a fine breeding ground for all sorts of insects.
I learned to avoid the courtyard.
When I awakened from my morning nap, there was a man standing in the now drained fountain with an acetylene torch. An hour later, the patter-patter of falling water begin to echo off the walls.
It’s exactly what I hoped for and I can’t wait to hear it overnight after the traffic noise has subsided.
