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What's New? As some of you may know Ken plays in a big swing band called The Tempos. We mention this because this weekend they will be playing at the Bellevue Community College campus for the Early Ford Car Club car show and picnic Sunday the 3rd. This is a really fun event with a lot more than just early Ford's. Every kind of classic, custom and unique automobiles show up for this event. The weather promises to be fantastic with temperatures reaching the mid 70's.Bellevue Community College is just north of the 148th Street exit off Interstate 90. The car show opens around 10:00am and The Tempos perform from 11:00 to 12:00 and 12:30 to 1:30. If you get a chance stop by and see us. Ken will be the one on the drums so stop by and say hello, we love to meet our readers. DigiTalkI had been looking at Snagit software, a little screen capture program that has a ton of neat features. I wasn't crazy about the $39.95 price tag so kept putting off buying it. Then I remembered what I had told you a while back, go to your favorite search engine and type in the name of what you are looking for + "coupon" or "promotional code". I did that with Snagit and found a promotional code that took $10.00 off the price. Snagit for $29.95, now that's a lot better! A little surfing before you buy can save you some real money. It only takes a few extra minutes but in this case it knocked a third off the price tag. SITE OF THE MONTH
Do you ever go garage sale shopping? Did you know that there's a right way and a wrong way? Did you know that if you do it correctly you can score some really nice stuff? We'll this months web site will help you the next time you go to a garage sale.
Ken's sister Diane, is a garage sale junkie (sorry Diane)! She has just put up a new web site that has a big section dedicated to garage sale shopping. She has many tips and ideas on how to make the best of your time and money. Along with her shopping tips she also has a lot of other neat information and pictures on her site.
While you are shopping keep in mind Marilyn's project for this month, you might just find something cool that will work with this project.
Take a few minutes and check it out, you won't be disappointed. Go to www.ilregalo.us. Diane says, "Il Regalo is Italian for "the gift" and we want to share this gift with you.
Thanks sister, nice job!
MARILYN'S CORNERChina & Crystal Dishes, Odds & Ends
Do you have any miss matched dishes that are left over from a set or heirloom that you can't part with but you never use either? Here's a way to get those pieces front and center on your table. They can be your favorites again and your friends and family will take notice too. All you need is a little imagination and epoxy glue.
The idea is simple, just combine the old pieces into unique structures and make them usable again. Here are some of the ideas I've come up with.
 Some of the triple layer towers need to be glued. A clear epoxy works really good. If you have some heavy pieces that are really stable and you would be serving something light weight like cookies or cake and there would be little chance for bumping, you may not need to glue them. Besides the serving dishes shown above I also made candle holders out of an upside-down rice bowl and sake cup. An individual place setting candle holder can be made using a punch cup, doilly and small vase. Also, just for fun, an Asian soup spoon with rice in the bowl of the spoon and a votive candle.
I have a small bud vase on one of our towers for a little touch of greenery or a flower.
 Let your creative flare shine and have some fun. The best part is being able to see these dishes that never get used have a new purpose and new life as the center attraction of your table. 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 months tool suggestion is one that has been around for a while and I use it a lot. My wood shop is really small and I don't have room for a big jointer. In fact I really don't have room for a small jointer although I know how important of a tool it is to a woodworker. As a next best choice I use the Freud Glue Line Rip Blade to make crisp sharp edges.
When I'm doing wood joining for a table top I very carefully square up the pieces and make my rip cuts with this blade. You need to make sure that the wood you are working with is flat. If it's not flat it can rock on the table of the saw and throw off your edge. After I've cut the edges I biscuit join them together and then sand or plane them smooth. It works good for me and if you don't have a jointer it should work good for you too.
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This is from Ken's cousin Cindy, boy she's embarrassed now :-)
Grandma's letter.
She is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car. She writes:
Dear Grand-daughter:
The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a Honk if you love Jesus bumper sticker.
Will write again soon,
Love, Grandma
I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting. So, I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.
Boy, am I glad I did, what an uplifting experience that followed. I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good he is, and I didn't notice that the light had changed. It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn't honked, I'd never have noticed. I found that lots of people love Jesus!
While I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, For the love of God! Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ, GO! What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus!
Everyone started honking! I just leaned out my window and started waving and smiling at all those loving people. I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!
There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a sunny beach.
I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. I asked my young teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant. He said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.
Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign right back.
My grandson burst out laughing.
Why even he was enjoying this religious experience!!
A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed.
So, I waved at all my brothers and sisters grinning, and drove on through the intersection. I noticed that I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again and felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared.
So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away.
Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!!
THIS WEEK'S FREE RECIPE
Here's what you'll need:
Enjoy!
Remember, if you have a recipe you'd like to share please send it to Marilyn@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.
Now that summer is upon us many of you will be doing lots of camping and boating. This wonderful cookbook is designed for limited space and ingredients that you might have when traveling by boat, RV or tent.
Barbara L. Johnston from Forest Grove, Oregon reviewed this book and wrote: This cookbook should be on the shelf of every good cook on the Northwest coast, and not just those who are in boats. It focuses on locally available ingredients (shellfish, fish, berries, sea asparagus) and ease of preparation. The ingredients are ones you'll be likely to have on hand, and there are excellent photographs of the various shellfish, fish, berries and plants which can be found in the wild.
Nearly every recipe is accompanied by a beautiful photograph of the prepared dish. All the dishes can be prepared in a ship's galley (extremely small kitchen). There are sections about provisioning, gathering shellfish, storage of salmon, using a diesel stove, and even how to cook salmon the traditional Indian way -- in a cedar frame over a beach fire. I've tried a number of the recipes and they are delicious!
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Sundial Stand
This project started when we got a sundial and needed a place to put it. I came up with this design when I was watching the Fraiser TV show. They had a piece of furniture in the living room that looked like it would work great for our sundial. I broke out my CAD program and started designing. We're really pleased with the way it turned out.
Here's what you'll need:
Using a good crosscut blade on your tablesaw.
Set it at 84 degrees. I used my new Wixey Digital Angle Gauge.
Cut the four sides to length, 23 3/8". Cut each end and flip the board between cuts so looking from the side you'd have a parallelogram.
Mark the outside, inside, top and bottom of each side. This will really help prevent any mistakes later on when cutting the sides (speaking from experience :-).
Measure the ends from the center out to get 7 9/16" on one end and 2 11/16" on the other. I really find the Incra Centering Ruler to be helpful.
Mark the 45 degree lines on the ends of one of the sides. You'll use this to set up your taper sled.
Put a Glue Line Rip blade or other good rip blade in your tablesaw.
Set the blade to 45 degrees.
Set up the Taper Sled that we made in our May newsletter, www.runnerduck.com/05/05/07.htm, to cut the taper on the sides. The tricky part is aligning the cut marks in the taper sled. Here are four pictures of what I did.
This is how I aligned it.
On the other end I aligned the mark with the saw blade.
This is how it should look when you are ready to cut.
Readjust the taper sled and cut the other edge.
If you'd like to see this project on the web just go to www.runnerduck.com/sundial/sundial.htm. The pictures are a little bigger and easier to see. Plus you can print the web page to take the project to your shop.
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