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July 2009 edition of Lakeside Magazine.
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LAKESIDE LIVING & LOGAN MARTIN HOMES, JULY 20092
With tiki torches and palm trees,
couple brings a touch ofthe tropics
to LoganMartin Lake
Logan Martin Homes Section
ON THE WATER THIS MONTH
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Houseboat cruise 12244451
LAKESIDE LIVING
andLOGAN MARTIN HOMES
MAGAZINE
A product ofThe Daily Home
Covering life along Logan Martin Lake
since 1994
STAFFEditor and Publisher
CAROL PAPPASAdvertising director
PAM ADAMSONDistribution
KANDI GEORGE
PhotographyBOB CRISP
BRIAN SCHOENHALS
WritersLAURA NATION-ATCHISON
BRANDON FINCHERDAVID ATCHISONCHRIS NORWOOD
JUNE WINTERSKENDRA CARTER
KATHERINE POYTHRESSHEATHER BAGGETT
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COVER PHOTO BY BRIAN SCHOENHALS
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Keeping Lakeside Magazine fresh
From the editor…People often ask me how we
can keep the magazine fresh with new faces, new places and new stories. It must be hard to come up with ideas month after month after month, they say.
And I just smile and reply, “I’m glad Logan Martin is known as the lake of a thou-sand coves. There’s a story around every bend.”
Such is the case with this issue of Lakeside, which features a Pell City couple who bought a small island and turned it into their own personal paradise. Complete with palm trees and tropical plants, the island even boasts a buried treasure.
You’ll meet Laurie and Jim Regan and read the story about their island getaway just around the bend from their real home (and mine).
You will read about Judy Denard’s home make-over and you will continue the trek across Logan Martin in a kayak with writer David Atchison.
Those are some of the stories we found this month, and there are plenty more up and down Logan Martin Lake.
It’s July. It’s Lakeside. It’s where you want to be.
— Carol Pappas, editor and publisher
Photo by Bob Crisp
Logan Martin Lake is famous for its waterside Fourth
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Jim and Laurie Regan used tiki torches and palm
trees to create their own island resort on Logan Martin Lake.
Grand Island “fires the imagination”
Private island paradise
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Story by Katherine Poythress Photos by Brian Schoenhals
At 50 feet by 75 feet, it’s barely larger than a living
room, and visitors can only get to it by boat, but Jim and Laurie Regan’s Grand Island is one of their most prized possessions.
The couple, whose Logan Martin lakefront home is only about a mile from Grand Island by water, set their eyes on the real estate treasure more than 10 years ago, but they had a problem — they were not able to persuade owners Randy Royster and Sandra Mullinax to part with the island.
“We pestered them beyond belief,” Laurie said. “For years, we were always bringing it up, and then one day
last summer (Sandra) said something that sounded like ‘maybe,’ and I said, ‘Don’t tell Jim; call me if you’re serious, because his birthday is in a few weeks.’”
Sandra, who serves on the Pell City Library Guild Committee with Laurie, called a few days later. When Jim answered the phone, she purported to be calling on “library business.” Before handing the phone to his wife, Jim said to her for what he did not realize would be the last time, “and again, if you ever think about selling us the island, keep us in mind.”
Laurie executed the transaction without her husband discovering it, and for his birthday last August, she and some of their nieces, nephews and friends decorated the
Continued on Page 8
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island with streamers and balloons in preparation for intro-ducing Jim to his new acquisition. But they returned to the mainland to experience one of the worst flash storms they had seen in years.
“It was a get-in-the-basement storm,” Laurie said. “I looked at my niece and I said, ‘Crepe paper’s not gonna take that. How are we going to surprise him with the island now?’”
After the storm passed, the niece begged Jim to take her out on the water in the pontoon boat one last time before she went back to college.
He reluctantly assented, and everyone loaded up in the boat to pilot around the lake. As they approached the small island, Laurie handed Jim a can hugger that said “Congratulations on your new island!” and watched her husband launch into the water and swim to the shore of his very own islet.
“It’s about 15 degrees warmer right here in the chest area, when you own an island,” said Jim, tapping his chest with a sincere earnestness in his voice as he prepared to pilot a group of people out to tour his acquisition. “At one point, Sandy said she would sell her half of it to me, and I said, ‘I don’t think I can share an island with you.’”
For Jim, it was all or nothing — and preferably all. He doesn’t mind sharing, but there is something magical about the ownership.
“An island just fires the imagination in all of us. It’s a great place to go — especially for kids to go. And as much fun as boating around the lake is, it’s nice to have a destination. It really adds something to the boating experience.”
Continued on Page 10
Island From Page 7
The Regans tried for years to per-suade former owners Randy Royster and Sandra Mullinax to sell Grand Island.
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The tiny Grand Island is located close to Bird Island about a mile from the Regans’ home on the eastern side of Logan Martin Lake, where they have lived for approxi-mately 15 years.
Despite the islet’s name, the Regans have no grandiose illusions about their new and unusual possession.
“Really, we’re just the new maintenance people,” Jim said.
He and Laurie will be the first to joke good-naturedly about the diminutive size of their piece of water real estate.
“When we get out there, everybody needs to stay togeth-er,” Jim quipped. “We may not get to see it all in one day, but we don’t want anybody wandering away from the group. You could get lost out there.”
But the couple have transformed what used to be a small patch of water-marooned wilderness into something special. Boaters who used to fly right on by this postage stamp piece of real estate now slow down and circle around, curious.
“There’s a lot of hesitation, but this is a popular spot, and we don’t discourage anyone from coming over here as long as they clean up after themselves,” Laurie said, pointing out how much effort they have made to preserve the island without evidence of human blight.
“We want people to come out here and enjoy it and take their trash with them.”
The water gently laps up to the sandy shore as a sunset frames silhouettes of the three palm trees Jim had imported. One palm tree bends precariously over the water, but once it has taken root, he said, it will form a tree seat.
He also had tropical flowers and fauna imported to the island, not only for looks but for shoreline preservation.
“When you only have 75 by 50 feet, you can’t afford
much erosion,” Jim said. “I just hope this inspires other island owners to do something with their islands.”
The unusual botanical treasures are scattered among a fire pit and a buried treasure chest. They fixed it up not only for their own enjoyment, but for their 22 nieces and nephews who look forward every year to visiting their Uncle Jim and Aunt Laurie at the couple’s lakeside home.
The islet has served as a setting for all kinds of new adventures for relatives and friends. One neighbor in his 60s has taken his grandchildren out there to camp and fish.
The Regans took some of their nieces and nephews to the island at night over Memorial Day weekend to tell ghost stories.
“I’ve been here less than a week, and we’ve already been out (to the islet) two or three times,” said nephew Brett Collier, who just graduated from college and is spending the summer with the Regans while he applies for jobs.
While the Regans play around the island, a boat carrying the previous owners arrives, and they climb down, good-naturedly claiming squatter’s rights on the real estate.
“Once you’re an island owner, you’re always an island owner,” said Randy Royster. “When I sold it to them — and it’s not written down anywhere or anything, but we agreed — that I have squatter’s rights.
The group holds an impromptu evening party around the campfire, surrounded by tiki torches and gentle post-rain-storm lake waters.
“Some things in life are not supposed to make any sense, and this is one of them,” Jim said, smiling in the sunset as he lay swinging gently in a hammock hung between two of his island trees.
“You don’t try to explain it; just enjoy it.”
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Story by Carol PappasPhotos by Bob Crisp
When the captain, Johnny Johnson, steered his 98-foot, double-decked houseboat out from the dock and skillfully guided it onto the main channel of Logan Martin Lake, the more than 60 guests aboard could sense a special evening lay ahead.
With a mixture of music from the Drifters and Jimmy Buffett courtesy of DJ Randy Jinks, guests were already getting into the spirit of the occasion – a floating party along Logan Martin Lake.
As late afternoon turned into early evening, the sounds of Motown and other requests brought guests to their feet to dance or to grab a microphone to sing along.
Billed as “Tori and Caj’s Sunset Cruise,” it was a cocktail party honoring my niece, Tori Shamblin, and my nephew-to-be Caj Anderson, who married June 6 at Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Birmingham.
It was an ideal kick-off to a week full of events honoring
them in what we came to lovingly call our “Big Fat Greek Wedding.”
My family and I had wanted to host a party for the couple to bring the two families and their friends together, but we wanted to do something a little different than a traditional cocktail party.
I ‘borrowed’ the idea from the St. Clair County Economic Development Council, which hosts a similar cruise for its business partners every fall to thank them for their support and to “show off” the lake.
We banked all our hopes on a sunny day, and we weren’t disappointed. It was the first break in the weather in weeks of rainy days leading up to it.
Guests arrived at the docks of Images, a lakeside, gated community in Pell City, and boarded the boat late on a Saturday afternoon. Pell City caterer Polly Warren, who is also Greek, was there to greet them with a feast of her own specialties – from classic Greek fare of spanakopetas and
Houseboat cruiseAn ideal party venue on Logan Martin
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Johnny Johnson’s double-decked houseboat made the perfect wedding party spot on the lake.
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The buffet covered coun-tertops in the living and kitch-en area of the boat on which Johnny lives when he hasn’t booked it for a party, and there was plenty more upstairs on the open deck — fresh tomato salsa over crostini, chicken strips, fruit and cheese.
Bars were located on both decks as well, and guests moved freely up and down, seeing Logan Martin from var-ious vantage points throughout the evening.
Curious boaters would cir-cle the houseboat throughout the evening to get a closer look at the party as it traveled slowly down the main chan-nel past River Oaks’ majestic homes and turned at the bend leading to Logan Martin Dam. It then headed back to Images as the sun made its spectacular
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As evening fell, the music and laughter continued. American music gave way to Greek dance music and no matter the country of origin of the guest, it seemed as though all wanted a
chance to join hands, learn the steps and get into the festiveness. Shouts of “Opa!,” a Greek expression of jubilance, underscored their new-found tradition.
As we pulled back into the dock, there seemed to be a certain reluctance for the eve-ning to end. It had indeed been a special time to savor, giving new meaning to a day at the lake and one our family hoped would be as special as the marriage all had come to celebrate.
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Mike is the third genera-tion member of his family to own the farm.
His grandfather, William Lee Wadsworth purchased the farm’s intial 80 acres in 1911. Mike said he remembers being on in the fields as a young boy, picking the cotton his grandfather grew.
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War II. Mike said his family raised cattle and chickens, which he tended to — cleaning their eggs and putting them in cartons to be sold at the local A&P.
The family also grew and canned peaches and tomatoes. In fact, Mike and Jeanette have a few of the family’s old canning labels framed in their kitchen.
Now the farm has swelled to 335 acres with beef cattle, timber and, of course, the 3,000 blue-berry plants that occupy around 6 acres of the property.
Jeanette, who retired from working with the state, and her husband, who worked for the government and as a member of the Coast Guard Reserve, wanted to pick the perfect crop in their retirement.
They planted the first of their berries in 1987.
“And then the second year, we replanted,” Jeanette said. “We should have put the irrigation system in first, but we really experienced more.”
Mike said now around 14,000 feet of irrigation system runs
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underneath the plants, bringing water from a well that he said meets purification standards.
Jeanette said the blueberry farm employees all use safe food handling practices when picking their berries.
“We want to make sure we’re selling a product that’s safe,” she said.
This year the Wadworths will open for business on Monday, June 22, accepting call-in orders for pre-picked berries, as well as opening up the U-Pick stand in the field.
The little stand is complete with bags and baskets for peo-ple to collect their berries in and a box for them to leave their payment.
“It’s a complete honor sys-tem out there,” Mike said.
Jeanette said they’re keep-ing the prices of the berries set from last year — $10 per gallon for the U-Pick and $15 per gal-
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berry farm open for six to eight weeks, but Jeanette said if the temperature keeps rising, they may have to limit their open time to six weeks because the berries don’t do well in the heat.
“There’s no way to know that until you get there,” she said.
While there are some rules to the pick-your-own stand, like not picking berries off the ground and vacating the prem-ises if it starts to thunder, the stand has no set hours.
“If the sun’s shining, it’s open,” Mike said.
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Blueberries From Page 20
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Story by Elsie HodnettPhotos by Brian Schoenhals
When spending your summer on the lake, what better way to enjoy it than with the new bells and whistles available for pontoon boats?
“There are a lot of neat things you can get for your pontoon boat,” said Diana Woods, who owns Woods Surfside Marina with her husband, Jerry.
“With the new pontoon boats, what a lot of people like is a raised platform for the driver
and a captain’s chair,” she said. “They like the tilt steering wheel a lot, too.”
Woods said the pontoon boats themselves come in a variety of styles and colors.
“Vinyl floors with snapping carpet is a popular feature,” she said. “You can unsnap the carpet and take it out of the boat, then store it over the winter so it won’t get moldy.”
Woods said removable carpet also makes it easier to clean the boat.
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“Most of our pontoon boats have a fresh-water sink,” she said. “You can get Corian countertops and even a refrigerator.”
Pop-up changing rooms are another family favorite. The chang-ing room pops up with curtained sides for privacy.
“You can put a portable toilet in the area and use it for a bathroom if you want,” she said.
Many of the pontoon boats come with ski tow bars.
“We put larger motors on our pontoon boats, which allows people to ski off the back of the boat,” she said.
Wake towers for wakeboarders can also be added.
“Some of the models have a table in the front of the pontoon boat,” she said. “You can get an umbrella to shade the front table, in addition to the Bimini top.”
For those who enjoy the sun-shine, Woods said, some pontoon boats offer a pop-up sunning lounge chair.
“There is even a fishing version,” she said. “That version has fishing seats with rod holders in front, and live wells.”
Woods said some of the new pontoon boats have three pontoons, allowing the boat to perform more like a fiberglass boat.
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“These are not your typical mom-and-pop pontoon boats,” she said. “These are boats that are perfect for young couples with children. The whole family can take the pontoon boat out for a day of fun on the lake. The kids can take naps, and with a fridge and changing room, they can stay out the whole day if they like.”
Woods said swim platforms with ladders make it easy for children to enjoy the lake safely. The pop-up changing room can be taken out, and that area can be used for storage.
“We carry a large selection of pontoon boats and features,” said Mike Morris, owner of Poor House Branch Marina.
Morris said GPS units are a popular feature.
“The GPS gives you your speed, the direction you are traveling in, where you have been, how to get back to where you started from, and much more,” he said.
Morris said mp3 player con-nections, Sirius satellite radio, and CD players remain popular.
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“We have a hydraulic lift for the Bimini top,” he said. “It raises the Bimini top with just the push of a button.”
Morris said some pontoon boats have a hydraulic wine rack that raises and opens up as well.
“A lot of people like the double Bimini tops with the stainless steel frame,” said Chuck Phillips, who is in service and sales at University Marine at Pine Harbor Marina.
Phillips said stainless steel hardware in general is popu-lar.
“They like the movable stainless steel cup holders,” he said.
Phillips said tilt steering wheel and front reclining bucket seats are also very popular.
“Our pontoon boats have berber carpet, which is very long-lasting,” he said.
Phillips said additional features for pontoon boats include a cooler table, single door fiberglass bar, swim raft, quick inflate/deflate sleeper system, spare filler seats, and more.
“Our pontoon boats also have an adjustable transom, which makes for a better ride,” he said.
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Home perched with a perfect view across
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decided to move to “that little town on the lake in-between Birmingham and Atlanta,” they just needed the right house.
They looked for 10 years, and finally, two years ago, there it was. It had been sitting vacant for several years.
The house on Coosa Street in Pell City had the right amount of space, the right lot on the water and lots of other “rights.”
With so many of the rights in place, the Denards decided to take on the project of changing the house’s “so 70s” look and updating it into a modern and much more sophisticated style.
But before getting started, Mrs. Denard admits she turned to her husband and won-dered out loud “if maybe we should bulldoze it and start over. …”
The Denards didn’t give up on their hopes of reworking the house, though, and now, it’s the perfect place for relaxing, sharing
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their love of cooking and entertaining and for each of their own special interests.
Mrs. Denard is artistic, making fabric art in many forms, in purses and other accessories — even carry-all bags to use for walkers and pretty pads for crutches.
She ventured into crafting the pieces for walkers and crutches because of a personal experience with having to use them for a time, but that’s another story for another time, she says.
One of her large crazy quilts hangs in the front hall, a piece made as a tribute to her mother, made using old department store labels from her mother’s clothing, buttons and fringe and lots of other effects.
Her husband encouraged her to use her artistic instincts in the house, and between that and his building abilities, the house happened.
Mrs. Denard describes her taste as eclectic and likes to be bold with her choices. Animal prints and rich designs are used against details such as elegant columns and ceilings, creating a luxurious and exotic effect.
The Denards took down walls and ceilings, changed floor-ing and painted, you name it, to get their “new” house.
The dark paneling that was in the kitchen, den and laun-dry room “had to go,” Mrs. Denard said.
“The house was so dark,” she said.They created vaulted ceilings in the kitchen, den and din-
ing room, which added a more spacious feel, and created double tray ceilings, where some of Mrs. Denard’s favorite chandeliers now hang.
A wall Denard took out in the foyer got added back in after Mrs. Denard saw it and felt it looked like a barn.
So Denard redesigned the wall, up it went again and this time, there was a coat closet on the foyer side and a closet in the dining room designed to hold glassware and entertaining pieces.
Walls in the dining room are a deep mahogany, and molding is painted white to contrast. A metal chandelier is designed with curves that hold large golden crystals and hangs over the square table for six.
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The sun-room is where Mrs. Denard likes to spend her time relaxing.
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An Oriental rug in beiges and golds covers the bamboo flooring used throughout most of the house.
Chairs are covered with fabric in a broad black-and-white stripe and chairs are tied at the seat with thick gold tassels.
Windows are lined with plantation shutters, bordered with sheer champagne-colored drapes edged with delicate fringe.
On the dining table, Mrs. Denard has arranged a large candle holder that supports a trio of ivory candles.
White columns are set into the corners of the hall that leads from the dining room to the open kitchen and living room, placed against camel-colored walls.
One of the themes in the Denard house is elephant accessories, and the hall holds one of Mrs. Denard’s largest elephant pieces, a 3-foot -tall elephant planter filled with ivy.
Above the planter hangs a painting the Denards bought during the Mardi Gras Gala and Art Auction, a yearly benefit for Antique
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in the house.“Since we both like to cook, we had to keep in mind
that we would both be in it at the same time,” Mrs. Denard said.
Ease of traffic flow was accomplished by centering a large work island with seating on one side, offering walk-through space at either end.
The island is topped with black and beige flecked gran-ite, and three wrought-iron barstools face into the work area so company can visit with the cooks while meals are prepared.
Cabinets are warm maple, brushed with a chocolate-col-ored glaze and are topped with three tiers of crown molding, painted a deep chocolate for contrast.
Assorted greenery and cookware are arranged on top,
along with a small parade of elephants, which have a nice spot for keeping an eye on the cooks and greeting guests.
Recessed lighting the Denards added in the vaulted ceil-ing adds to the light in the room.
The laundry room is off the kitchen, and an old linoleum floor had to be addressed, Mrs. Denard said.
With help from Bobbie Bradshaw of Pell City, she covered the floors with layers of brown paper bags, poly-urethaned them five times and now has an interesting and easy-to-maintain floor.
Natural light was added in the kitchen by installing double glass doors on the back wall, where a large new deck was designed.
That’s where some of Mrs. Denard’s handiwork with plants is shown, along with the adjacent screened porch that overlooks the water.
The porch is “her spot,” a favorite place to spend time.
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The Denards lightened up the kitchen, added trim
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“This is where I like to stay,” she said.There’s a rattan rug placed underneath dark wicker
furniture, where bright terracotta cushions are used against floral cushions with yellow accents and the same shades of terracotta.
A pot of yellow orchids sits on a side table, they’re one of Mrs. Denard’s specialties, and her signature elephants dot other tabletops and floor space.
Potted palms are also used in the room, and a tiered shelf holds an assortment of other plants and votive candles.
The porch opens from the living room, where a 400-pound elephant figure used as a table stands guard.
A stack of old books pieced together is the pedestal for another table, topped with glass and places beside a cozy reading chair.
Soft seating in deep brown is used in the room and in one corner, a decorative ladder holds framed pho-tographs and tiny lights.
Chair cushions are covered in stripes, and animal prints and a zebra-print case is open on the floor, filled with favorite magazines.
Passing from the living room to the hall and bed-rooms, Mrs. Denard stops in the foyer to point out her “upside-down” chandelier, hanging from the double tray ceiling added in that space.
A guest room is decorated in reds and corals, and a tapestry rug in the same shades is used.
Mrs. Denard used spots of zebra print fabric on pil-lows to cut the color, along with framing windows in
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the print against plantation shutters.Bedside tables are covered in the print, too.The chandelier chosen for the room features an upside-
down shade surrounded in crystals and tassels.“This is my most whimsical room,” she said.But her bathroom is the place she calls her “happy place,”
and color is bright pistachio against black and white.Cabinets are white, and a black-and-white crystal chan-
delier is overhead.Another bedroom is Mrs. Denard’s work area, and
stacked shelving stores fabric and trims used in making her purses and quilts. A large work table offers a place to cut and measure fabric.
Furnishings in the master bedroom are mission style, with a slatted bed fitted with black trim and a matching dresser with small storage drawers stacked on top. Side tables are topped with matching brass lamps and have the same design, and the bed covering is leopard print. Elephant- and tiger-print pillows are placed against zebra- and giraffe-print pillows, and there’s a bench covered in tiger print at the foot of the bed.
Walls are camel, and dark exposed beams line the vaulted ceiling.
Gold silk drapes frame the windows in the bedroom.The adjoining bath was gutted and enlarged, and an oak
chest was reworked to hold a marble sink. Walls are camel and hold a variety of animal prints.
There’s a full basement downstairs, and a large den for
Denard where he has his Alabama Crimson Tide collect-ibles.
The floor was done in the brown paper bag method used in the laundry room.
A leather couch offers seating to take in a view of the lake and also the garden Denard has put in out back, complete with tomatoes, cucumbers, even a little squash and corn.
The Denards joke about who has the greener thumb in the household, she with her orchids and houseplants or he with the vegetable garden out back.
Ask them about it and they both answer, “I do,” in uni-son.
Mrs. Denard says there might be someone else in the house with them at times — she suspects the former resident who passed away.
“When the walls started tumbling down, the door started slamming,” she said. “Carlton was in the house by himself working from dusk until dawn and kept hearing weird noises — so did the electrician.
“One day the sheetrock hanger asked me if I had slammed the bedroom door, but I had been in the front part of the house.”
The Denards met in Panama City and have been married 13 years now.
They’re happy to be in their perfect spot on Logan Martin Lake and enjoying the lakeside lifestyle.
“We love it here,” Mrs. Denard said. “And the work was all worth it.”
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Carlton and Judi Denard complete-ly reworked their home on Coosa Street.
Denard did a majority of the work himself.
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Story and photos by David Atchison
Taking to the waterDavid Atchison, the Pell City news editor for The
Daily Home, heads down the Alabama Scenic River Trail, which includes Logan Martin Lake.
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It’s not all smooth sailingWhen strong storms hit, boaters should head for shore
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a continuing series written by David Atchison, Lakeside Magazine writ-er and Daily Home Pell City news editor, about his experiences as he travels down the Logan Martin stretch of the Alabama River Trail.
This trip down the Alabama Scenic River Trail was one threatened by a familiar summer event – a thunder-storm along Logan Martin Lake.
The wind kicked up, forming whitecaps on the lake as I heard thunder in the distance.
It was enough to send my long yellow kayak and me to the nearest shore as fast as I could paddle and away from the approaching storm.
As I headed to shore, it felt as if I was paddling in an ocean rather than a lake. The water really got rough, fast.
I later talked with Capt. Michael Patrick with the Alabama Marine Police — and what I did was exactly what I should have done.
“Head to shore as quickly as possible,” Patrick said. With the summer weather pattern, scattered afternoon
thunderstorms are common. I was trying to get in a short, three-mile paddle from Lock 4 Slough to close to the center of Riverside when this storm came racing across the lake.
In the distance, I could see the hard rain hitting the
surface of the lake as the storm passed ahead of me as I continued my trip down the Scenic River Trail.
I picked up my paddle double-time and was actually able to avoid the worst of the storm.
“If you can hear thunder, you can get struck by light-ing,” Patrick said.
He said most lake property owners understand the need to escape the open waters during a thunderstorm and most don’t mind boaters taking temporary shelter under docks or boat houses scattered along Logan Martin Lake.
Patrick said generally two to three people are struck by lighting on Alabama waterways each year.
So, when you do hear thunder or see an approaching storm, head for the shore.
Within 15 minutes after a big, ominous cloud rushed across the lake, the water settled back down and I contin-ued my journey down Logan Martin Lake.
This trip I passed right by Riverside Mayor Rusty Jessup’s lakeside home.
Rusty is a really nice guy, and I believe he cares about his job as mayor and about the future of Riverside.
Rusty said he bought his lake property and started building his new home in early 2000.
“I love it here,” he said.
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Riverside Mayor Rusty Jessup is trying to help the city obtain lakeside prop-erty for public access to Logan Martin Lake for local residents.
The sun highlighted this spider web, which I spotted next to the river.
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His favorite time on the lake is actually not during the summer months but during the winter.
The winter scenery and the quietness of the lake during that time appeal to him.
“I just love that time of the year,” Rusty said. “The summer is fun, but there’s a lot more activity on the lake.
“I like it when it’s more quiet, watching the birds and trying to catch a fish or two.”
Rusty points to the lake as the biggest asset for Riverside. He said it is important that the lake is kept clean and healthy
for economic prosperity as well as helping maintain the quality of life for area lake residents, especially for his constituents in Riverside.
“That river is what Riverside is all about. It’s what we are,” he said. “Everybody in our town is tied to the lake, directly or indi-rectly.”
Rusty said he wants to make the lake connection for Riverside residents even stronger, and the town is trying to move forward with obtaining grant money to secure public access for Riverside residents.
“We want a city-owned park,” Rusty said. “And we’re real close to obtaining land for that park. We want public access for our town.”
I finished my latest journey at Roxanne Bukacek’s Riverside home. She is a friend of my wife, Laura. Roxanne and her husband, Tom Douyard, have a beautiful, historic home along the river.
After I had completed my trip, Tom said something to me that I had not even thought about.
He said I was about half way between Neely Henry Dam, where I began my trip, and Logan Martin Dam, where I plan to end my kayaking trip.
I wonder if it will take me another year to complete my journey. I guess we’ll see, but until then have a safe and wonderful time on the lake.
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This is one of a pair of eagles that recently hatched a juvenile bird. The family appears to be doing well along Logan Martin Lake.
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As a practicing attorney in Talladega, Mike O’Brien can probably tell you about the rigors of his profes-sion, but he can also tell you the enjoyment he gets from woodturning and woodcarving.
“It takes me into a whole different mindset,” O’Brien explained. “I can get lost in it. For example
I was turning a piece over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, and I remember at some point looking at my watch and it was like one o’clock in the afternoon, and the next time I looked at my watch, it was six. I had no idea that much time had passed. It’s a change of pace for me.”
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artistic interest. He has dabbled in mediums such as pencil and charcoal drawing as well as pottery and iron work, but his interest in working with wood has never wavered.
“I’ve been a drawer, and I guess in high school I had a chance to take an elective, an art course at John Carroll (High School), and was introduced to wood carving by the art instructor there, and from there it’s kind of developed,” O’Brien recalled. “But I’m self-taught. I’ve never had any formal classes other than an elective in high school.”
He does not work from sketches. He just has something in his mind when he starts a piece, which sometimes has to be adapted midway through the work.
“I’ve done some work in clay, and in clay, you’re adding to make a piece, whereas in wood, you’re removing whatever’s there to form what you ultimately want to happen. An example, and this is one of my favorite pieces,” O’Brien said as he got up to fetch a piece from a nearby shelf, “this is just a piece of cedar limb, it started out as an Indian but this old man wanted to be in it.”
The piece depicts an old man with a long beard carved into the limb. He also has some highly-detailed busts of soldiers and Native-Americans as well as small representations of homes and buildings. He also has created a natural scene with a songbird.
O’Brien can also form practical pieces such as bowls and even can build cabinetry.
Whether it’s carving or turning, he says he tries to work on a piece for at least a few minutes every day when he can squeeze
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Some of O’Brien’s work, like this mill with a water wheel, is highly detailed.
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time into his schedule. He often goes out to the woods and scavenges for wood to use.
For turning, he usually likes to use maple, dogwood and cherry.
“Turning is learning the skill of manipulating the gouges with the turning wood. You spend more time practicing than you do producing,” O’Brien said. “As far as practicing, it’s every day. Even if it’s just 10 or 15 minutes, I’ll go out there just to make chips in the floor. It’s just a skill where the more you do it, the more skillful you become.”
For carving he usually likes to use catalpa, basswood, butternut, cherry or cedar wood. “Those are all hardwoods that give a good finished product,” O’Brien said.
O’Brien loves crafting his pieces more than getting a sense of accomplishment by seeing the finished product. In fact, he says he has several pieces he does not care if he ever finishes.
“I may start a piece and not ever completely finish it. I get it to a point where I’m satisfied,” O’Brien shared. “I don’t like finishing things. When I built some furniture, I would build it, but somebody else needed to finish it.”
He never takes commissions or sells his work and prob-ably never will. For O’Brien, that would suck all the fun out of his craft.
“I think if you get into selling, it becomes more of a job rather than just a hobby or a release. You’ve got to meet a production schedule, and I’m just not interested in doing that,” O’Brien said.
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There is no great mystery as to why O’Brien finds wood-working so enjoyable.
“I’ve done some wood sculpting, some woodturning. I’ve built cabinets. That’s just my thing,” O’Brien said.
Sometimes, it’s just that simple.
Other than one high school class, O’Brien is self-taught.
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Horizons in Pell City is, in the strictest sense, is a subdivision, but Joe Paul Abbott has a wider vision. “What we’re trying to develop here is a real community, and having a meeting place is central to that.” To that end, a community center and pool have
been placed at the highest point on the property. The structure for the center was completed in December or January, and the pool was first filled in March or April.
“We’re hoping residents will come up and spend their afternoons there and get to know their neigh-
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bors,” Abbott said. “It’ll be owned by the homeowners, and they will be able to do what they want with it. If they want to have a pizza party by the pool, that’s fine, or if their kids are getting married, that’s fine, too.”
There has already been at least one wedding there already, and the facility has also hosted a Business After Hours event for the Pell City Chamber of Commerce, although it is not generally open to the public.
Abbott went on to describe the center as a “really beautiful facility and one of the best reasons to move here, one of the best amenities. The houses are designed to be smaller, easier to maintain, with smaller yards. But when a resident gets some cabin
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fever, they can go there, or go sip some iced tea on a neighbor’s porch.” The center is almost 5,000 square feet on two floors. The upstairs is generally more formal, with more informal accommodations on the ground floor.
The bottom floor houses a fitness room and a cabana room with a kitchen containing a refrigerator and a microwave oven. The upper storey has a con-ference room, an office and a 12-foot porch all around the building. “You can follow the sun or the shade all day long,” Abbott pointed out.
And the views are spectacular from any angle. “The lake is just one pretty view, but you’ve also got mountains on one side and pastures on another. You can see Bald Rock (near Cook Springs). And the views are even prettier in the fall, when the leaves are turning,” he said.
There is a 10 percent grade from the highest point in the development to the water, so it is fairly easy to negotiate, and golf carts will be allowed.
Lots at Horizons range from $65,000 to $195,000. “You can go ahead and purchase a lot, build up some equity and build on it when the economy
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improves,” Abbott said. There are currently 94 cottage lots available, and three floor plans (Honeymoon, Charlotte and Key West) that fit the 25-foot lots and can generally be built for less than $300,000. All three plans include an elevator shaft and can include an elevator if the homeowner desires. “We want to draw retirees who may not have to negotiate the stairs, as well as people moving into a second or third move up home or just a vacation home,” Abbott said.
There are also 31 larger lots, all with lake views and all with access to an 8-foot-wide-by-3,000-foot-long boardwalk. Other amenities include a private boat ramp, 94 docks spaces, and, coming soon, a tennis court and on-site dry storage for boats. Surfside Marina currently handles boat storage and valet service. The development also contains 15 acres of common property.
Anyone who buys a lot has access to the center. Interested parties can take a look around with a Realtor weekdays between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m., Abbott said.
“We’re really all about selling a lifestyle here,” he said. “We like to say the lot just comes with it.”
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