I won’t bore you with the details of why I was repairing the cupola on my garage roof this past Sunday – suffice it to say that if I hadn’t, the weathervane would still be indicating due North as somewhere in the vicinity of straight up.After I fabricated (and attached) the new base plate and retaining finial for the weathervane, which features a jauntily-cantering horse of indeterminate breed (the weathervane, not the finial), I decided that I’d take the fairly-sensible precaution...