Hooray!!!  The freshly painted shutters (in Duron’s “Historic Charleston Green”) are up on the house and I think they look great!  In the above photo, you can see in the light how the shutters have a hint of green to them… otherwise, they look black.   Some of the wood shutters had deteriorated so badly...

I feel like I’m about to expose our house to you without any make-up on! Look, Ma, no shutters! If things look very overgrown, it’s because they are.  We are blessed with an abundance of poison ivy, poison oak, Virginia creeper, and honeysuckle among other things.  (Love the honeysuckle though!)   I haven’t written in...