In article >,
brooklyn1 > wrote:

> >On Sat 12 Jun 2010 05:49:45p, Larry told us...
> >
> >>> I was on that board for four years and encountered a personal
> >>> dispute during that time. We purchased and had installed a very
> >>> high quality solid copper weathevane. Prior to doing so we
> >>> scoured the CC&R for any reference to the installation of such an
> >>> item. There was none. Our neighbor two houses away practically
> >>> had a stroke at our having done this and insisted that it be
> >>> removed. She was also on the board. I pointed out that nothing
> >>> like this was addresssed in the CC&R and she called to have a
> >>> homeowners' vote to include it. Later the same evening I
> >>> discovered that the CC&R did provide for the installation of TV
> >>> antennas and/or shortwave radio antenna towers not to exceed 20
> >>> feet above the roof line. I called for a special meeting of the
> >>> board a couple of days later and said that I would be happy to
> >>> remove the weathevane at the same time that I installed a 20 ft.
> >>> TV tower in its place. The matter was dropped.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Nice!
>
>
> Would be nicer if Larry posted a picture of his house with that very
> high quality copper weathervane... I've been contemplating erecting a
> cupola with a weathervane atop for a while now, but everytime I peruse
> all the styles I can't decide. And then I realize that from indoors I
> wouldn't see it so what's the point if I can't see it point wind
> direction. I even thought of placing one on my barn roof, that I can
> see, but I don't know that it would look ethetically correct on my
> type of barn. And then I already have one of those electronic remote
> weather stations.

A small one on the back deck might work?
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