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We had ordered some ball-shaped finials online, a few weeks earlier, and had asked
Geraldo to glue them to the posts and paint them white. Alas, the finials started falling apart
about a week after the project was completed. Don't ask me how plastic fence caps can
manage to self-destruct, but they did. Trust me on this.
I noticed their untimely decrepitude one morning as I stood on our balcony sipping my
first cup of coffee.
Maybe
, I told myself,
my eyes were deceiving me
. I slouched inside for
a second cup of Joe then ventured back onto the balcony.
Damn!
At least one ball finial was completely gone (who knew where?) and two were listing
wildly to the side. Ten minutes later I was down in the garden inspecting the damage. Had
someone tampered with our fence, or were the caps just poorly constructed?
Crappy construction seemed the most likely explanation, and this was confirmed when
I grasped one of the intact finials and it came off in my hand. Deep breath.
After a brief consultation with Michael, I decided to re-glue the finials to their bases
and nail the bases to the posts. I even found the missing ball under a bush a few feet from
the fence.
A couple of hours later the fence was complete and looked exactly as we had imagined.
We were thrilled.
Puerto Rico's version of Ben Kingsley definitely rocks.
Lattice fence
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