Ewwww!

You may have noticed the light bollards in the palm circles and around the lake covered with blue plastic for the past few days. This is the beginning of the repainting process. It was only several months after the bollards were originally installed before the paint began to crack and peel, and they were looking pretty bad. The contractor is making it right, however, and the first step is to remove the bad paint. The bollards were coated with a substance that "melts" the paint; the substance is harmless to the plastic and to humans (the Water Expert says it is like an exfoliant - his hands were as soft as a baby's bottom afterward) but makes the old paint easy to remove. So off comes the plastic and this is what is left:


But wait, what's that smell? Look a little closer, it's like leprosy or something, AND it's smelly. But perfectly harmless.


Starting today they will powerwash the paint off and then they can start painting with a new wonder paint that should last - and look fabulous! - for years.