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What's New? Not much! It seems like January is always sort of a slow month. People are winding down from the hectic holidays and the weather is typically not the greatest. Around our place we fall into that category and have just been taking it easy and enjoying the days.Last month we did tell you about the weather station we now have on our web site, www.runnerduck.com/weather/kirkland_weather.htm. If you've gone there and found it out of date or just dashes on the page that's because we've been doing some heavy computer maintenance. Our main computer was displaying the "blue screen of death" more and more frequently and we were afraid that we were going to loose everything. We installed 2 gig of new RAM and a new 120 gig hard drive. Then we reinstalled Windows XP and all the programs and peripherals like the printer, card reader, scanner and most importantly the weather station. Everything is pretty much up and running again and you should see fewer and fewer outages on our weather site.
DigiTalkSome email programs just include the forwarded email as an attachment. Please don't do that! If you have to, copy the email, create a new one and paste it into that one. We hate it when we get an email that we have to open the attachment which has another attachment which has... you get the picture. Rather than you taking a minute to clean things up you just pass it along and then all the people you sent it to have to deal with it. Be a nice person and think of the next guy. Lastly, the keyboard has upper case letters and also lower case letters. PLEASE turn off the "Caps Lock"! When you send an email in all capitals it is considered yelling. Nobody likes to be yelled at! A little courtesy on your part could sure make life better for all the people you send or forward email too. I'll now relinquish my soap box and get back to reading my email :-) SITE OF THE MONTH
Do you ever have a hard time getting something clean or getting an odor out of your car or your house? If so this month we have some help for you. The idea for the site started with a group of cleaning professionals getting together to exchange tips and techniques. The idea developed in what you see today.
There are more than 1300 free cleaning tips on this site, and growing every day. It has a nifty little search engine where you can enter "How do I clean ______ from ______? I tried some different combinations and it worked pretty good.
To find out how to clean something just go to www.howtocleananything.com and start cleaning things up!
MARILYN'S CORNERDenim Pins and Ornaments
 Here's what you'll need:
Fill a blender with water, add the "minced" pieces and blend on high until it is a mushy consistency.
Carefully remove the cookie cutter and let them dry two to three days. You can place them in the oven below 170 degrees F to speed the drying.
Glue the fabric to your shape using tacky glue but don't glue the slit for the straight back pin base.
 That's it, have fun and try all kinds of shapes. Remember we have all of our past projects archived on our web site at www.runnerduck.com. Just click on the Craft Egg.
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THIS WEEK'S FREE RECIPE
To serve, clean and dry the Strawberries and dip by hand or with a skewer.
Makes one cup of dip.
Remember, if you have a recipe you'd like to share please send it to Marilyn at runnerduck.com. We'd be happy to post your favorite recipe on our Kitchen site or in our newsletter and give you credit.
Every month we post a new recipe on our web page. Be sure and check out the New recipe at the RunnerDuck Kitchen Store.
Another thing that goes over really big on Valentines Day is chocolates. This fabulous cookbook will show you how to make just about every kind of chocolate treat imaginable.
Robin N. Uncapher reviewed this book and wrote: "If you have ever worked through a long difficult candy recipe only to have it inexplicably fail--this is a good book for you.
The great strength of Making Artisan Chocolates is in the specificity of the directions. Making candy is unlike most kinds of cooking in that there is almost no room for error. Many candy recipes fail because they give general instructions with the idea that the cook knows how the candy is supposed to look, or feel at a given stage.
Instead of trusting that his reader is experienced, Shotts gives specific instructions, right down to which brand of chocolate will temper at which temperature. He charts guidelines for compatible ingredients and kinds of chocolate.
Thanks to Andrew Shotts I made my first successful chocolates last weekend. They were the best my family had ever tasted, and they looked gorgeous!"
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Japanese Saw and Chisel Rack
This project is pretty simple but solves a big problem. I got a set of Japanese saws for Christmas and I needed a place to store them. I sure didn't want them just laying around on benches or in cabinets. I decided that as long as I was building a place to store my saws I could use a place to store my chisels also. You'll need to adjust this project to fit your particular tools but maybe it will spur some ideas.
Here's what I used:
Use a square to align the spacers. Mark along the edge of each spacer to make gluing easier.
Apply glue to the spacers, align and clamp them to the back board.
After the glue has dried apply glue to the spacers and clamp on the face board.
Install the magnetic holder using the supplied hardware.
Drill a mounting hole in each end. I allowed room for a 3/8" wood plug to hide the screw.
Apply your favorite finish and you're ready to hang on the wall.
Mount it on your wall and you are ready to load it up with your saws and chisels.
This project is also posted on our web site at www.runnerduck.com/saw-chisel_rack/saw-chisel_rack.htm
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If you have a project that you would like to share please send us an email and we'll help get it published in the RunnerDuck review. We are looking for woodworking, gardening, crafts and kids projects so send us your thoughts at kennyb@runnerduck.com.
January has even been a slow month for jokes. Here's one from Ken's brother Ron that's pretty cute. If you've got a joke please send it to kennyb @ runnerduck.com we'd love to share it with our readers.
Sister Margaret Katherine entered the Monastery of Silence.
The Priest said, "Sister, this is a silent monastery. You are welcome here as long as you like, but you may not speak until I direct you to do so."
Sister Margaret Katherine lived in the monastery for 5 years before the Priest said to her, "Sister Margaret Katherine, you have been here for 5 years. You can speak two words."
Sister Margaret Katherine said, "Hard bed."
"I'm sorry to hear that," the Priest said, "We will get you a better bed."
After another 5 years, Sister Margaret Katherine was called by the Priest. "You may say another two words, Sister Margaret Katherine."
"Cold food," said Sister Margaret Katherine, and the Priest assured her that the food would be better in the future.
On her 15th anniversary at the monastery, the Priest again called Sister Margaret Katherine into his office. "You may say two words today."
"I quit," said Sister Margaret Katherine.
"It's probably best," said the Priest, "You've done nothing but complain since you got here."
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