Behind the Green (?) Door

 Super Shed?  I don't think so, especially when it can be viewed from our deck, and worse yet from the street.   Today, a Sunday when no work is allowed to be conducted within Bay Isles, I shot some additional photos, including a picture taken through the rear window of the shed - you can see all the valuable stuff stored behind that locked door.  You'll note that there is a box to the side of the door,

where a light switch will be going.   Yes, we'll have lights in this shed so if some member of the Board wishes to fetch a bucket of paint at midnight, well there you are.  And, since that square space above the back window is actually cut in for an Air Conditioner (absolutely needed to keep mold from growing on that valuable pool furniture should a hurricane show up).  Rumor has it that the Super Shed will also be painted on the outside.  I'm hopeful that they'll paint it green, so it'll blend with the landscape.  Maybe even a mural.

While they're at it, I also hope they'll follow through and put up some sort of a stockade fence around those ugly Florida Power meters and various other freestanding items of related utility accoutrement.  That's French for ugly crapola, or stuff that should have hit the 40 cubic foot dumpster that lived in our park for too long, before departing.

And I'm sure they will......eventually.  All we'll have to do is endure another assessment no doubt.  The best news is that it's keeping Brian Welsh of Integrity Builders busy in the neighborhood.  He's a good man with tools, and the Trustees are five good men with checkbooks.........Ours.

The Little Shack Out Back

This is the preserve, a nature area outside my back door.  My home sits on a corner of Winding Oaks Drive and Harbourside Lane.   We bought here in 2010, when the preserve was far more wild and far less gravel - that was under the old Homeowners Association board, governed by a tightwad who never spent any money on common elements.  If you've read my blog, you recall the story of the pool that was promised with 60 days, but didn't open until 360 days later.

Well, once we had the new pool, then we had to have a place to store the pool furniture.  Mind you, at Cedars Tennis Resort we dealt with the issue of any pending "named storms" that threatened to turn pool furniture into aluminum missiles, by simply THROWING THE DAMN FURNITURE INTO THE POOL.   Of course, this is Winding Oaks where we have an image to protect.  Now, mind you at Cedars (where I lived before) the furniture only took one person to "store" and two to "retrieve", and the last hurricane to hit the Tampa Bay area happened in 1938.

So, without so much as a never mind, the Trustees (none of which can see this travesty from their homes) pour a concrete slab six inches thick, topped by the aforementioned shack measuring 10 foot wide by 20 foot deep, and a pitched roof reaching another 1.5 feet at the peak.  All this for pool furniture (half a dozen stackable chaises, 20 stackable chairs and five tables) and some paint?

 So, having promised that this "super shed" would be screened with appropriate plantings, we'll see how quickly that happens.  Probably be like to pool - we were told it would be done in October when we purchased our new home in July of 2010 .........they just didn't tell us what year.