{"id":2672,"date":"2011-01-16T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","slug":"day-69-glass-candle-holder-give-and-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Day 69 – Glass Candle Holder (Give) and Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Melissa met her cousin Angie this morning for breakfast and took with her a candle holder as a belated Christmas present.\u00a0\u00a0A few years back,\u00a0Angie’s mom had a nice shop that sold fine gifts.\u00a0 This candle holder was a wedding gift from that shop, so Melissa figured Angie would appreciate it. I spent the day working in the downstairs bathroom.\u00a0 There were a couple of places where drywall needed to be repaired – a bit of water damage from the shower over time.\u00a0 Also, I mounted a shelving unit over the toilet.\u00a0 It is such a tiny bathroom that it is hard to strike a balance between having adequate storage (for towels and curling irons and such) and having space to turn around! Melissa has worked hard this week at painting doors and trim in the basement.\u00a0 The bathroom is the last “big” project to be done.\u00a0 That means we’re almost ready to list and it also means I had better step up the process of Giving, Throwing and Selling. While she was out today, Melissa bought a “For Sale by Owner” sign, so it looks like maybe we will take a crack at selling the house without a realtor.\u00a0 It sure would save some money, but we’re not quite sure how it works!\u00a0 We know some folks who have done it, including a couple who is new to our small group. Speaking of the small group, last night we started a study on “The Hole in Our Gospel”.\u00a0 I think it might have the unfortunate side effect of shutting down one of our favorite Give locations.\u00a0 Keri (who helps lead the group with her husband Steve) got some crystal from Melissa\u00a0a few weeks ago (you might remember).\u00a0 Well, the other day, Melissa gave Keri a tub half full of various baskets and other decorations that “might look cute in her daughter’s room”.\u00a0 Keri shared at group last night that she has felt convicted by the study already – especially concerning the amount of “stuff” they have and the tub didn’t make it into her house.\u00a0 It’s in limbo in the garage. I told her we don’t care what she does with the tub of “stuff” as long as she doesn’t bring it back to us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Melissa met her cousin Angie this morning for breakfast and took with her a candle holder as a belated Christmas present.\u00a0\u00a0A few years back,\u00a0Angie’s mom had a nice shop that sold fine gifts.\u00a0 This candle holder was a wedding gift from that shop, so Melissa figured Angie would appreciate it. I spent the day working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}