The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 290,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 12 days for that many people to see it.
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The Four different Styles of Lamp Bases
When it comes to looking at different styles of lamps, the two things that make them distinctive are the shape of their bases and their height. This post is about lamp bases.
When it comes to lamp bases, there are basically four distinctive shapes and I’ve come up with words to describe them; they are candlestick, pillar, torch and urn. The shape that is classified as candlestick has the thinnest silhouette, with pillar and torch becoming progressively wider, and urn having the thickest / widest base silhouette of them all. In lamp base design, different shapes are not designated to certain categories; some of the shapes overlap each other as they go from one category to another. A shape that is classified as candlestick might inspire something in pillar, and pillar might translate into torch, and torch might blend into urn. As said before, when looking at the four categories, each of the lamp bases are getting thicker and heavier looking. Now let’s look at the four different shapes of lamp bases. Continue reading
Arranging furniture in a 16×16 foot square Living Room
Striped walls go with every decorating style, no matter if you like Traditional, Transitional or Modern Furniture and Accessories.
Personalize your home with accent walls
By painting or papering a single accent wall you have the best of both worlds. You get to have the bold, bright or dark, but to make it easy to live with you will be pairing it with lighter paint colors. Continue reading
Planting foundation plants on both sides of your front sidewalk leading from your front door to your driveway
Planting Foundation Plants in Front of your Home.
Too often siting foundation plants is poorly done. Most homeowners, and even the so-called professionals seem to plant a lot of stuff, not giving much thought to repetition, color, texture or mass versus specimen planting. In this post I am going to cover and show you how easy it is to make an interesting arrangement of foundation plantings that will give curb appeal to your house. Continue reading
Some ideas for using farm implements in your country garden
My Blog Stats for Today
The journey at times has been an interesting one to say the least. Not being computer savvy, just getting a post up for you to see and read was literally one step forward and ten steps backward at the beginning. Writing articles was also new to me. In a way I feel I have gone back to school again, but this time I am putting a lot more effort into what I’m writing, versus what I did as a kid in high school or even college. Computer wise, I still don’t know, or have the time to figure out many of the options WordPress provides for its bloggers.
I remember when I first started posting articles, having 4 or 6 readers find me on a week night, and getting 24 to 30 on a weekend. Over time the numbers grew to 40 to 60 articles read per day, and one year into blogging I had 975 read posts in one month; at that time that was great. With time, as I wrote more articles, more people started finding me. All of a sudden I saw people putting my articles up on their Pinterest boards, and eHow as well as writers for the San Francisco Chronicle used my articles as either references or resources for their articles. To date the San Francisco Chronicle has used me 12 times (thank you SF Gate), eHow used me twice, and Home Depot put me up on their Pinterest page under Lighting and Fans. Also a big shout out and thank you to the thousands of Pinterest posters who put me on their boards. (to see the San Francisco Chronicle or eHow articles look at the Categories on the right side of the screen and then click on San Francisco Chronicle / eHow references or resources). Now on average I have 20 to 30 thousand articles read per month; how times have changed. Continue reading
Fred Gonsowski Garden Home 