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Yeah we've had a good steady rain all day, some decent gusts of wind now and then, but so far nothing worse than a typical storm. I must have lost power for a bit at home while I was at work but it couldn't have been for long.

Last time we had a hurricane come through the Charlotte area, I still had my coop v 1.0, aka the converted baby crib on wheels, which would have been light enough to get knocked over or torn up pretty good. I lashed it down with a tarp over top and hoped for the best. Unfortunately, the tarp...

There are no HOA regulations regarding yard art, only business signs on properties. There's also regulations regarding having non-functioning automobiles on your property which is definitely violated by someone at the neighborhood entrance, but you know. God forbid there be chickens. And...

Nah the third choice is to fill my yard with obnoxious chicken-themed yard art and make them wish they'd just let me keep the actual chickens instead :p. Quail are cute but I'm not interested in keeping them, plus with my random allergy to duck eggs I'd want to make sure I could even eat quail...

Hey, another Charlotte-area person! *high-five!*

I would guess they're very similar to condo boards. Like, I understand having a common fund for things like sign and light repairs and whatever, and rules for common areas like 'please don't park giant RVs in the road' because that's just simple courtesy and safety. Not being allowed to have a...

The most colorful, loud thing out there! :)

I've taken to calling my planned chicken yard art extravaganza 'gay chicken wrath' because I got tired of saying 'the most colorful, loud, sparkly, kitschy chicken art I can find' :p. Kinda an in-joke with people who know me IRL because I'm a very quiet person and not gay.

@SueT lol I like it :P I have shockingly been encouraged by supposedly upright community citizens (family members and a coworker) to continue with the chicken disobedience and rearrange my yard/work on installing a 'privacy fence' of a garden, and get more hens in the near future (I've had them...

I already have Noodle though! I don't need another snake, I don't need another snake...stay strong!

Next month I go to an arts camp. Assuming I don't catch covid there (I am going to be masked all the time and staying in an RV rather than in the 'dorms'), I plan to go to our local ReptiCon in October. It'll be my first time going! I need some heating ropes and that seems like it'd be a place...

Oh for sure, I'll be looking harder to change HOA stuff--I don't think the bylaws have been updated in 30 years. A lot changes in the world in 30 years. And eh, tacky yard art is definitely not anywhere near nuisance level for the others on my cul-de-sac. We all know one another and we really...

Oh I've already been trawling through Etsy and I've saved like 50 things to my list so far :p I'm not going to run out of chicken yard art to get any time soon.

I specifically said in one of my posts to this thread that yes, I knew I was playing with a ticking time bomb and mostly right now I am just angry that my chickens were only a problem after this many years, and also that whoever apparently has a problem with them didn't come to me first...

No response yet, I sent the letter on Thursday evening after work, on Friday I got an automatic email reply that it was being forwarded to the appropriate parties. (ie I sent it to the overall HOA management group per instructions on their notification and now they have to send it to my actual...

Yup my parents' property backs up to a local cattle farm. They bought the house (over a decade ago) specifically because there were no other houses behind them. But of course now the farmer's getting ready to retire and his kids aren't sure they want to take on the farm, and developers are...

That's still something I'm keeping in mind. I sent them a letter on Thursday so now we play the waiting game for their response.

@Ninjasquirrel ha well I would, except that all the neighbors who would see me in the front yard are ones who actually like the chickens, so probably not something I should do :p

Yeah I live on the outskirts of a major city and finding a house that isn't under an HOA rule is basically impossible. My job is not one that can be done remotely so my choices on where to live are limited. Finding it 'interesting' that I've been cited for violation of the chickens...but not...

That is true, and I do know of at least one other person who owns (or did own) chickens in the neighborhood. I'm very leery of throwing other people under the bus for my own sake though. The only way I'd feel comfortable doing that is if I could either A) prove they targeted me and did not...