What's New?   The Tempos big swing band, the band that Ken plays drums with, has just released their newest CD, "Big Swing". It has fourteen great old swing songs from the 40's and 50's. To order your copy see The Tempos News below.

Once again our cat, Miss Kitty Kitty, has provided some entertainment for us that we wanted to share. She does some of the darndest things and we think that perching on the edge of a bird bath is one of the strangest.

She normally gets up on her tip toes to drink out of the birdbath but this time she decided to get up on top of it so she didn't have to stretch so far. Once she got up there she didn't have any place to stand except on the edge because she didn't want to get her feet wet. I think that if there were a caption for this picture it would be "What Bird?".

If you have any funny pet pictures of your favorite pet we'd love to see them and even share them with our readers. Just sent them to kennyb@runnerduck.com.

By the way, the "Bookmark" does not currently work in Mozilla Firefox web browser, only Microsoft Internet Explorer.

It's funny how some things come around sometimes. Back in 2002 we featured an article on "Tin Can Tourists" which is about old metal camper trailers, August 23, 2002 Newsletter. We recently received the following about the picture we had in that article and thought we'd share it with you.

"I run the TCT site and you asked about the fifth wheel pictured on your site. It is owned by Ken and Lana Hindley - I know them very well. The picture you have is of a 1936 Curtis-Aerocar travel trailer and custom built 1938 International D15 tow car. There are only a few of the Aerocar's in existence and most are in museums. The tow car is a one of a kind."

To find out all about this interesting trailer and tow vehicle go to www.hindleysgarage.com. There are many links to interesting sites from this site so you can spend a lot of time surfing if you are not careful.

Summer Screen Door

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.

IT's HERE! The Tempos "Big Swing" CD is released!

Finally after months of mixing and creating the graphics our new CD is released. We call it "Big Swing" and it features fourteen great swing songs from the 40's and 50's. If you love the old big band swing music we think you'll enjoy this CD. It's the kind of music that makes you just want to get up and dance, you do remember how to swing don't you?

The only place you can get this CD is from our web site. Go to www.thetempos.com and click on the "Click Here" at the top of the web page or CLICK HERE.

We only printed up a thousand of them so get yours before the are all gone!

If you'd like to hear The Tempos live then your next opportunity will be August 27th at the Hiram Chittenden Locks in Ballard, Washington. This is a great venue and besides our great music you can go watch boats go through the locks and fish swim up the fish ladder. Bring a picnic lunch and enjoy the day.

You can get more detailed information on The Tempos web page www.runnerduck.com/jobs.htm. We hope to see you there!

The Tempos big swing band is available for hire. If you have a special event that could use the wonderful music of a classic sixteen piece big band be sure to contact kennyb@runnerduck.com. We perform all over the Seattle area for all sorts of events.

Album Pick of the Week

"Big Swing
By The Tempos

You guessed it, our CD is our "Pick of the Week". Some of you may not know it but Ken has been playing drums with The Tempos for over 35 years and the band has been around for over 48 years.

The Tempos was the brainchild of Boeing engineer Henry Fichtner, who, with some co-workers and friends formed the group in 1958. A few months later the late Dr. Vernon J. Harkness, school principal, teamed up with Henry and the two co-led the band for many years. Henry played piano until 1976 while Vern played sax and trombone until 1980.

In the fall of 1963 it was decided to name the band and Wayne Watling, the bass player, suggested The Tempos for the nine-piece group.

Expansion began in ’69 when Vern's son Kelly and Alan Waldron joined the sax section. In ’70 Lloyd Fetz (trombone) and Doug Wilbert (trumpet), both award winning musicians at Tyee High School along with teacher-trumpet man Gordy Holt joined to shore up the brass section.

When drummer Bob Gidney retired in ’72, the band landed Ken Bloomquist, a Kent-Meridian grad that had played with Capitol recording artists ‘The Serfs’ throughout the ‘60’s.

In the fall of 1974 The Tempos hired its first singer, Sharon Lacey, whose warm voice and outgoing personality gave the band a pleasant added dimension. Sharon entertained the audiences in front of her and endured the antics of the band behind her until 1997, more than 22 1/2 years.

Continuing into the millennium, The Tempos perform at a variety of dances and functions throughout Washington State, providing quality big band music without sacrificing the camaraderie and memories inaugurated by Henry Fichtner 48 years ago.

We hope you enjoy or CD!

We've been pumping out conversation tips for almost five years and so far we've received about three from our readers. Either all our ideas were so great that you didn't feel the need to submit any or you just plain drew a blank.

Instead of repeating ourselves we'd really like to hear your ideas on how to conserve energy, water, fuel or anything else that comes to mind.

Please send us your ideas at kennyb@runnerduck.com and we'd be glad to post them.

If you have a conservation tip please send it to kennyb at runnerduck.com and we'll post it in our newsletter.

RSS News Feeder One of the best ways to get our newsletter is to have it delivered to your door step. Actually it would be delivered to your desktop! Highlight the XML link (right click and drag over it), select Copy and paste it into your newsreader. Or just paste http://www.runnerduck.com/runnerduck.xml into your newsreader. A good free news reader is Awasu and you can download it at www.awasu.com. Don't know what this is all about? Check out our little tutorial HERE! JOKE OF THE MONTH Gordy a trumpet player for The Tempos sent this one in. Cute, thanks Gordy! Popsicles and Sex The only way to pull off a Sunday afternoon quickie with their 8-year old son in the apartment was to send him out on the balcony with a Popsicle and tell him to report on all the neighborhood activities. He began his commentary as his parents put their plan into operation: "There's a car being towed from the parking lot", he shouted. "An ambulance just drove by." "Looks like the Anderson's have company", he called out. "Matt's riding a new bike...." "Looks like the Sanders are moving" "Jason is on his skate board...." After a few moments he announced, "The Coopers are having sex!!" Startled, his Mother and Dad shot up in bed! Dad cautiously called out, "How do you know they are having sex?" "Jimmy Cooper is standing on his balcony with a Popsicle."

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PROJECTS

Paint Box

Our grandson, Hudson, celebrated his third birthday this month and the theme was "Party Like Curious George with Paint". While he's a little young for this gift we figure it's something he'll have for many years. Who knows, one day he may even become a famous painter! It's a box to store all his paint brushes and some paint.

I actually had this idea and decided to build it out of scrap wood so there are three different kinds of wood, walnut, oak and maple. I think it gave it an interesting look.

Here's what I used:

• 1/2" X 8" X 52" Walnut
• 1/2" X 8" X 14" Maple
• 1/2" X 4" X 14" Oak
• Glue

To make the box; Cut the sides 5" X 14". Cut the bottom 5 3/4" X 13 3/4". Cut the ends 6" X 5". I made dove tails for the corners using my handy dandy Rockler dove tail jig.

Rockler Dovetail Jig with Half Blind Dovetail Template

Be sure to set up your jig using scrap pieces and fine tune it until you have a prefect fit.

I find that using a pair or dial calipers works great for setting up the dove tail jig.
Once you cut the dove tails route the grooves for the bottom, ends and the lid. I used a 1/4" router bit set 1/4" deep.

For the bottom I set the fence so that the top edge of the groove would be just slightly above 1/2". Be sure to start and stop before the ends of each piece otherwise the groove will show on the ends.
On two sides and the tall end route the groove the same as the bottom except run it all the way out the front end of the sides.
In the bottom route a groove 1/2" wide by 1/4" deep. Make two passes with the router to do this.
Cut the bottom and top edges to fit in the side and end grooves. I used my table saw and made one pass with the pieces flat and one pass on the edges.

I set the blade to 1/4" high and the fence 1/4" away from the blade. I like to use my height gage on my square to set the blade.

Hi-Gage Square Attachment

Only dado the two sides and one end of the top.
Without glue, put the box together and check the fit. Mark the location of the center groove from the bottom onto the ends.
Route a 1/2" X 1/4" groove in each end to match the center piece.

Here are the box pieces laid out.
I used a 1/4" round over bit in my router to make the radius the top of the center piece.

To see the rest of this project go to www.runnerduck.com/paint_box/paint_box.htm.

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