I think a significant part of my past working history is the cause of much of my present day angst . Perhaps it’s just jealousy on my part but I’m kind of sitting on the fence about that.
You see, I spent most of my life building walls of brick and block , even stone and have literally topped out thousands of them over those many years . Large and small , tall and short , wide or skinny and no matter how any of those walls started they all finished with one thing in common . They finished up on a straight plane that by no accident happened to be level . Just like they were supposed to be.
Fence builders here in Florida just bug the living shit out of me . Driving around the area it would appear that if they have the equipment or skills to build a fence on at least a straight plane with some semblance of level then many don’t know how to use them. Fences around here seem to simply follow the terrain up and down as that is what would take the least amount of effort and every white vinyl fence I see drives home that Florida isn’t as flat as all those from north of the Mason / Dixon make it out to be .
You may have heard they are removing the power cables from the telephone poles in my neighborhood to bury them underground . Many of those that were delighted that this eye sore would be removed and hidden away have now learned that those ugly poles will remain along with the telephone and internet cables attached to them as only the electrical will be hidden. Some have also now found large ugly square metal boxes painted Army Green on their front lawn just like the one across the street that I can look out and view as I type this .
That Army Green metal box I’m looking at holds what used to be a transformer mounted to the telephone pole and sits on a concrete slab that two Mexicans tossed into place . It’s front left corner sits a full five inches below the back right corner giving the appearance of a graph angle steep enough to depict the recent price of gas . And it sits in front of a white vinyl fence which slopes in the opposite direction at such and angle it could only be considered a graph of recent stock prices . The contrast is way too sharp to be acceptable to an old bricklayer
The wife and I would love to have a fence around our back yard and it’s quite obvious we’ll need seek out an old bricklayer to successfully accomplish the task ….
