You have to give up your first born along with an arm and a leg.

...she is telling us our case has been appointed the Covenant Committee.

Maybe she meant the Coven Committee.  Its a group of nine women, in a circle - three groups of three.  I think my HOA is controlled by the same group.

Hey Frustrated, I have to say what your man did to your yard is a huge improvement to the sub-division.  When I would drive by during the time he was putting it up, I would stop and let him know that it was awsome.  My neigbor across the street from me as well commented on how nice it was looking and wanted him to do something to her yard.  Being that I drive by your house atleast twice a day I have not once noticed any thing bad about it.  If I had some extra money to have him do it, I would be on it "faster then sh*t coming out of a goose"  I thing the HOA committee that we have "SU*KS* and we should get someone that understands that there are people that want to make a "nice" difference in the community and then there are the ones that won't take care of their yards at ALL!  As for the tractor, that stuff is our heritage and looks awsome.  Keep up the awsome work in the yard.  

I look at your awesome yard every day. I wish everyone would put as much heart and soul into there yards, our community would look great. As for Dawn, she is always hateful. And she doesn't return phone call. I think Oak Hollow needs a new HOA. Good Luck with the HOA..

I think to some degree it is needed but I wouldn't complain about the split rail...
How about flaggin someone that doesn't have anything special in their yard instead.

Why flag anyone at all?!?!?!? I mean, seriously! ...why do we have to bash these individuals for not fitting their star-shaped peg into the rest of the neighborhood's square hole?

Probably because that's what was not only agreed upon, but also legally signed at closing.

I appreciate everyones comments. The reason we are so upset is because she has told us one thing and has done another. Before we received a fine, like FOUR months after she said not to worry, my neighbor was watching our house during Christmas vacation and Dawn pulled up. "Hi I'm Dawn are you _______?". My neighbor said no. Dawn says oh I have been wanting to meet her. "I helped her get all of this done", pointing to our yard.
She is so ignorant when it comes to the covenance. She TRIED to get us to cut down our 8ft fence to 6ft saying it was too high. I had to point her to the section in our covenance that CLEARLY states our fencing MUST be BETWEEN 6-8ft tall. THEN she has been sending us late fines every month for the HOA dues. Again, in the covenance it CLEARLY states we all have a 10 day grace period! Our dues were RECEIVED in their office and deposited two days after the due date. Guess I have to show her that too! We had code enforcement come to our house to make sure we were within city code. They told us the split-rail is not considered a fence. It is considered landscaping and we are well enough outside the city easement line. I have heard many bad stories about Dawn and I have always given her the benefit of the doubt. However when she (they) declined our arbor in our backyard, I lost all respect. They claim they declined it because we did not attach a copy of our survey! They have a copy of our survey! It was sent in when we mailed her our ACA paperwork for the front yard.She even forwarded it to us via email. I don't get it......