Shutters

 Over the last few years I have made 23 new shutters for the house.  Last year Mary and I put 6 of them on the front of the house.  Each shutter requires that 6 holes be drilled in either the brick of the mortar and then lags set in to hold the hinge.  Looks simple but it's a lot of work.

Earlier in the summer I put 9 more on the lower sides of the house and 2 above the porch on the south side where I had good footing and height.  But, the other three windows where impossible to work on without scaffold.  So with the good weather in November I rented the scaffold and managed to get them on before the weather turned sour again.  

So all of the work over the last few years has paid off.  

PS:  If anybody wonders why there is an odd number of shutters it is because three of the windows required a folding shutter on one side.  In the picture above you see an 18" wide shutter folding into 9" against the porch.