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What's New This Week? Other than spring and St. Patrick's Day there's not much new. We did manage to get up to our place at Sandy Point, northwest of Bellingham, Washington, to check on our boat. Because of the heavy winds we had a few weeks ago the plastic tarp we have covering the cockpit was split in half. Our neighbor had sent us an email telling us that so we came prepared with Duck (duct) tape and plastic clips. It was a beautiful day with little wind which made repairing it much easier. A little tape along with a few clips and it should be good for the remainder of the season.This summer we plan to make new covers out of Sunbrella, a great canvas material that withstands the sun, rain and wind quite well. We'll have to make the patterns first using old sheets and then convert them into the real thing. This should be a fun project and keep us busy for a few weekends. We fired the engines up just to make sure everything was in good order and they sounded like they were ready to take us to the San Juan Islands. Unfortunately we had to wait for another day. We are hoping to have some travel adventures from our boat later on this year. It's still a little cool and the weather still a little unpredictable for any boating right now. DigiTalk logo. For this purpose XML and RSS are one in the same. They both mean that you can get updates from the web site or a newly published newsletter delivered to your desktop. All you do is download and install one of the many news readers that are available and then point that reader to the web page that is linked to the little orange logo. One of the best, and free, news readers is Awasu which you can download at www.awasu.com. On their web site you will find some good information about RSS.I'd like to give you one example of how RSS works. In the future we will be adding an RSS link to our recipe page. If you have a news reader that has the web address (URL) for our recipe page you will get a notification every time we add a new recipe. Not only will you be notified but the recipe will show up in the window of your news reader. That's just how simple it is. Don't be afraid to dip your toe in the water. When I first started getting newsletters via my newsreader I still kept my subscription just to make sure I got them. Since then I've unsubscribed from the mailing list and just get them every time they are updated. Pretty slick stuff. Check out our RSS box a little further down in this newsletter. SITE OF THE WEEK
This week we wanted to offer you something a little different. It's a site that will help you... let's see, where was I? Oh yeah an interesting site to help you remember things. We all seem to suffer from forgetfulness and the older we get the worse it is. Andi Bell, twice world memory champion shares many of his tricks. He also has a memory training page where you can practice your newly learned memory skills.
To sharpen your memory just go to... dang, I forget! Oh yeah go to www.andibell.net and start getting your memory together.
MARILYN'S CORNEREaster Baskets
This is a great project for the kids. They make the baskets for decoration around the house or Easter dinner. They also make really great gifts for grandparents. Some simple materials and a little creativity makes for some great looking baskets.
 Here's what you'll need:
Plastic produce baskets like they use for strawberries.
Weave the ribbon in and out around the basket. Use different sizes and colors to add personality. You'll need about two feet to go around one time and tie into a bow. Now get busy because Easter is just around the corner. We hope you enjoy Marilyn's Corner and look forward to all the fun things she brings you each week. If you have a fun project that would be suitable for our newsletter we'd love to share it with our readers. Just contact marilyn@runnerduck.com and we'll do the rest. Remember we have all of our past projects archived on our web site at www.runnerduck.com. Just click on the Projects or Kids Only Eggs.
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At least here in Western Washington spring weather has started and that means that you are getting outside more in the evenings. I always like to see where I'm going but I hate turning lights off and on or worse just turning them on and leaving them on. We've installed motion sensor lights on all our major pathways around our house. They come on as soon as they sense you and go off after you leave. Not only does this save money but it also helps to ward off intruders, pretty cheap security.
If you have a conservation tip please send it to conservation@runnerduck.com and we'll post it in our newsletter.
Here are some more Actual Answers to Sixth Grade History Tests sent to us by JoAnne G.
1. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that
name.
2. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people
advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
3. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and
threw the java.
4. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people
Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
5. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The
Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made
king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
6. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing
the fiddle to them.
7. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw.
THIS WEEK'S FREE RECIPE
Ingredients:
Here is a recipe that will make eight Crepes.
Remember, if you have a recipe you'd like to share please send it to marilyn@runnerduck.com.
Every month we post a new recipe on our web page. Be sure and check out the March recipe at the RunnerDuck Kitchen Store.
We'd be happy to post your favorite recipe there or in our newsletter and give you credit. Just drop a line to marilyn@runnerduck.com.
Be sure and visit the RunnerDuck Cookbook Store for other great savings on cookbooks and cooking supplies.
Universal Potting Tray
We weren't sure what to call this project because it can be use for any number of things in the garden. Since we designed it around the plastic potting trays and it can be set up to carry tools in the tray we thought potting tray was appropriate. Because you can flip both the top and the bottom over we figured it was universal hence, "Universal Potting Tray".
No matter what you call it we think you will find this useful when you are moving your seedlings from the greenhouse to the garden.
Here's what you'll need:
You can click on the picture for a bigger view.
Everything except the handle is cut from 1" X 3" stock.
Here is an exploded view of this project,
Cut four sides 22 1/2" long.
Cut four ends 10 1/2" long.
Drill a 5/8" countersink in the center of each end just deep enough for the head of the insert nut to sit flush.
That's it! You can use them as trays for holding tools or turn them over for holding plastic seedling trays. It makes them really easy to get on and off from the greenhouse to the garden.
We hope you liked this project. If you build it and your friends ask where you got such a clever idea, please tell them that you got it at RunnerDuck.com.
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