"Summer, Summer, Summertime"

We made our first trip of the summer to the lake weekend before last. Alex and I left Friday evening... it had been a long week for us being the last week of school, so I wanted to get there Friday rather than Saturday morning. Alex and I took the two dogs, and left Jody and Jordan behind. BTW!!! Can't believe I have not done a whole blog on this alone... BUT... Jordan finally got his driver's license!! YEAH!!! Jody just has one little thing to do to the SUBE and he will be able to drive it... Woo-HOO! Anyway, Jody had to take Jordan to the airport for him to go to his mom's for the summer. Jordan left late Saturday, so Jody did not get to come until Sunday morning and was really only going to stay for the day, but he rode his motorcycle and there were thunderstorms all around the area on sunday evening, so he decided to stay until Monday morning. Mom and Lexi and Attie all came on Saturday morning. When mom got there on Saturday, she, Alex and I all went to the lake while dad piddled with something that was wrong with the circuit at the barn. We had fun laying out and eating our lunch on the pier. Mom and I decided that we needed to do something to repair some weather damage around one of the windows at the house, so we went to Anniston and bought the materials to do it while dad and Alex rode four wheelers (Alex is getting really good). Mom left Sunday afternoon before all of the storms hit... Jody left pretty early Monday morning, and Alex and Dad and I went to the Hub for breakfast. Then I had been wanting to go visit the dam for a while, and Alex had begun to ask quesions about how the lake got there and we decided after breakfast to go and do some driving around and looking at some things that we had not seen in a while... like the dam. Here are ome pictures of our little adventure ( R.L. Harris Dam)
(R. L. Harris Dam a little closer)
(warning signs on the dam... I want to go back when they actually open the gates... I think it would be pretty cool to see all of the water coming through)
(The Tallapoosa River looking the opposite direction of the dam.)

After we left the dam... we decided to do some riding around and Dad wanted to see what had happened to this little development that they were advertising as a "restricted" community... and I laughed as we went through, because I thought that was a silly way to describe a neighborhood. Well as it turns out I guess the few houses in this non-water community took the term restricted pretty seriously.

(First we had a deer cross our path.... that was pretty cool)

Then we drove to what apparently was a dead end into a driveway... and here is what greeting us... several nice signs!

(This truck was sitting kinda up an embankment to the side of the road... I thought it was sorta funny at first... but then the more you study the situation, you realize these people are pretty serious about the "restrictiveness" of thier neighborhood.)

(Yes... that is the sign on the back of the truck)(look closely in the tree and I guess that we were videotaped as we drove up to the property... I actually did not notice this while we were there, I just saw it in the pictures as I was cropping for the blog)(And yes... even though these people are going to kill us... they are apparently believers in keeping the ten commandments in the courts... Go Figure!)
(And if you dare to venture on to the drive, which by the way does not look much different than the street itself, you will be greeted with even more signs)(DON'T WORRY... WE WERE'NT!!)