Sumer Is Icumen In: HeckOfAHouse Fountain Opens
We are, at last, in full dress rehearsal for summer. Yesterday was the
Of The
Heck Of A House Fountain
To assist in the differentiation between the Heck Of A House Fountain and Buckingham Fountain, a photo of the latter is displayed below.
Remember:
It’s Buckingham Fountain that is controlled the Honeywell Excel-Plus Computer located in the fountain’s pump house. Before 1994, the fountain’s computer was located in Atlanta, Georgia.
It’s the Heck Of A House Fountain that is controlled by a water pump under the big fake rock.1 We have never ceded local control to another city and certainly not to Atlanta. The house next to the fountain, however, does use extraordinarily complex Honeywell thermostats.
It’s Buckingham Fountain that Edward H. Bennett designed to represent Lake Michigan with four sea horses, by Marcel Loyau and inspired by the Latona Basin in the Gardens of Versailles, that represent the four states that touch the Lake: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
It’s the Heck Of A House Fountain that was selected from a four-color brochure and is adorned below with a young Mesomorph touching the water. Julie demurred at my preferences for a fountain inspired by Brussel’s famous urinating boy statue based on the unacceptably high potential for an especially messy instance of life imitating art.
It’s Buckingham Fountain that is featured in the opening credits of Married… With Children
It’s the Heck Of A House Fountain that is featured in the back yard of another couple that was married with children.
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Footnotes
- The smaller rock, by the way, is also a fake but it has nothing to do with the fountain. It’s a speaker. And, when satellite receivers were larger and had to be located in our front yard, they were also hidden within large fake boulders. During storms that covered the rock with a thick enough layer of snow to prevent the signal from getting to the receiver, I could be seen vigorously wielding a broom, apparently to clear snow from a pair of large rocks; this explains, in part, my reputation in the neighborhood. Why all the fake rocks? I guess Da Boyz and I just love nature that much. ~back~
