Finally

The shutters are up, and aside from a few problems with hooks and eyes and lying flat . . . there they are.

The folded ones are held together with hooks and eyes that the installer, Troy, screwed up when he screwed 'em in. So at this point they stick out from the plane of the house.

That turns out to be a good thing in the short term: They're painted in latex, which takes about a jillion times longer to dry here than it does in the real world because of our humidity; so if they laid flat on each other they'd stick and pull for the next 60 days or so.

That's when we'll install special clips to hold 'em flat to the house.