Mary Strickland called today to report that she and Odell had seen a couple of unknown vehicles in the neighborhood. One was a speeding black Chevy SUV, the other a green truck. If you see suspicious vehicles in the neighborhood, please get the license plate numbers and report to a board member so we can do our due diligence in finding out who’s visiting.

If you haven’t been down to one of our lakes recently, you should go. Kratos and I walked all the lakes today and they are in great shape. Lake #1 is off-color, but the work on the road is finished and the water is flowing over the dam. Actually, it’s flowing over the dams on #2, #3 and #4, too. The erosion on Lake #4 dam is getting serious and we’ll need to address it in ’09. These big rains are cutting into the middle of the dam now. The water in #2 and #3 is perfect for fishing now and the fish should be moving again. In fact, I talked to one of my fly-fishing neighbors who caught a 6-lb bass recently on a frog pattern. Now that’s fun!

Oh Country Place nice resident your bright green grass looks swell,
I wonder if the fertilizer is what’s giving off that smell?
Without quarterly inspections the exact cause we can’t tell
Your effort to just get it fixed is what we must compel.

More than one of your fine neighbors is gonna have a fit,
We suspect that your aerobic system is the cause of it.
Perhaps it is the aerator or chemicals that don’t fit,
But one thing is completely sure, your yard sure smells like….poop.