{"id":4543,"date":"2011-03-27T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-133-home-maintenance-for-dummies-book-give-as-a-house-warming-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4543","title":{"rendered":"Day 133 &#8211; Home Maintenance for Dummies Book (Give &#8211; as a House-Warming Gift)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjG8SkUiuVJFxrUQVYtIksqFB3UMQGLlWxvockd1Tp0VB9Lo36m5mKnrFL9mGr5-euo4J7em8h0yYpdW5ceGhj-0N4GldbdBhVPU5Sw4fUkvtqwi6uxsePt1-eEZXGv0qJy16ADGPvblKQ\/s200\/home+maintenance+for+dummies.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congratulations, Todd!\u00a0  On other fronts: Today marks the 3,000th pageview for this blog!\u00a0 Can you believe it?\u00a0 You&#8217;re not the only one who reads this junk!\u00a0 In fact, there&#8217;s a stats page here that I check frequently out of curiosity and it even identifies what countries are represented in those pageviews.\u00a0 For instance, while our friend Beka was on her trip to Africa, I knew she was checking in with us here because all of a sudden Burundi, Mozambique and South Africa popped up in the stats over the course of the two weeks she was traveling.\u00a0 But even before that, I&#8217;d had hits from Costa Rica, Slovenia, Denmark, Russia, Singapore, the UK, Canada, Germany, Spain and even China.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that weird?\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure some of those are accidental &#8211; someone does a search\u00a0for &#8220;giant inflatable basketball&#8221; and up pops this blog! &#8211; but most are not.\u00a0 And I know a\u00a0handful of folks\u00a0in a\u00a0few of those countries, so maybe they found this blog through Facebook &#8230; or maybe\u00a0they are\u00a0complete strangers who are fascinated with how much STUFF this one American has &#8211; so much that he has given or thrown or sold at least one item each day for the last 133 days and has hardly made a dent! Who knows?\u00a0 The internet is an amazing thing. One last thing &#8230; our next Open House is tomorrow, March 27.\u00a0 The weather folks are predicting 1 to 2 inches of snow tonight!\u00a0 That is just WRONG for the end of March.\u00a0 Bleccccchhh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations, Todd!\u00a0 On other fronts: Today marks the 3,000th pageview for this blog!\u00a0 Can you believe it?\u00a0 You&#8217;re not the only one who reads this junk!\u00a0 In fact, there&#8217;s a stats page here that I check frequently out of curiosity and it even identifies what countries are represented in those pageviews.\u00a0 For instance, while our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","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\/4543","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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4545,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}