The saga of the porch continues

Remember the back porch that took 18 weeks to finally get installed? We thought the disaster was finally behind us once the thing was actually put up.

Not so.

Unfortunately, we have an HOA. I hate HOA's. Loathe them. They are nothing more than a device for a bunch of nannying busybodies to nose around in other people's business and enforce their version of an "ideal community" on the rest of us poor saps. Sorry, but my "community values" don't include seeking the approval of the mighty HOA before I make an improvement to property that I pay the mortgage on. It's creeping totalitarianism.

So we got a letter today that our porch did not pass the HOA inspection, and must be repainted "Desert Sand" in order to pass muster. Only problem... the porch already IS Desert Sand. That was the color we chose, had approved by the HOA itself, and had installed. Geniuses...

The HOA has no way to verify what color the porch actually is. Unless they figured out which porch company we used, managed to get a color sample from them, and then compared it to our actual porch... which I doubt. We don't know if they actually broke into our back yard to inspect it, or just looked at the picture we sent them (above) with the final approval letter.

Either way, they obviously don't know that the porch is already the exact color that they approved. But they still sent a letter telling us to repaint it. Which means, my guess is that they saw the porch, realized that it didn't match the color of the body of the house, and it offended their delicate sense of the "community color palette." So now they think they can tell us to repaint it, because they don't approve of the color that they approved?

Uh huh... sure...