...and hence, a fence!

Rufus has advised me that the dirtbags next door have been banging away all weekend at their "renovations". They have replaced only some portions of their rotting fence with new prefabricated fence slabs and left the other rotting ones there to, well, rot. I guess they have some half-wit system of determining which portions were in a worse state of decay and in more need of replacement. Staying true to form, in a pathetic half-assed, white-trash attempt to fake out passers-by and those who have more than 4 functioning brain cells, they have decided to camoflauge this now half rotted and half brand spanking new fence (which makes it a mediocre piece of crap fence) with brown paint. Now, I’m not quite sure why making this fence uniform in its appearance is of any particular concern to them...

You see, the shack they live in has four sides. Three of these sides have been refaced with aluminum siding in a surprisingly pleasant neutral shade of beige while the fourth is only half done with the unfinished portion left a blaring smurf blue. This has been like this for more than a year and a half. The shack also has a roof which has been re-shingled. Well, partially. To date, only 3/4 of the roof is done. The rest of the roof is covered with a plastic construction tarp, in that wonderful shade of smurf blue, which is held down by some strategically placed cinder blocks. This, too, has been like this for more than a year and a half. I’d like to reserve some optimism here in regard to the roof, as I believe it may get completed because at some point in the near future they will need those cinder blocks to support one of the many broken down wrecks they always have littering their yard.

So back to the fence, I’m not surprised by their choice in color - brown - it’s dark and it will cover all the dirt and rot and crap. But I’m willing to bet a lifetime supply of tuna that we will never see a completely brown fence. They will get half to three-quarters of the way done and just stop painting. And along that fence line, where they stop, something smurf blue colored will magically appear. You just wait and see....