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What's New? Our new home is what's new! We've only been here a little over a week so the place is still pretty torn up and full of boxes. Hopefully this will be the last time we ever move! Moving has never been fun and this move was especially rough. We will share some moving tips to help you avoid the problems we had, see "Marilyn's Corner" below.A number of you asked for pictures of our new home so we'll share some with you but they are mostly of the house with the previous owners furniture in it. If we shared photos of it today you'd see boxes ;-)
 The house has solid oak floors throughout. The living room has a gas fireplace and a big skylight which really brightens thing up.
 The kitchen is small but very well laid out. It has two skylights and windows that look out on the backyard, pond and waterfall.
 The large formal dining room also has two skylights and a vaulted ceiling. There are French doors that open out onto the back deck. The master bedroom is just off the dining room.
 The back yard is really nice with lots of decking, a large pond with fish and a small waterfall and a fire pit for evening camp fires. It has a small one car garage which is sort of disappointing but usable and a larger woodshop which will be great. See "Projects" in the next column for information on my new woodshop. DigiTalkNext we got our Dish Network set up and found out that our old (really old) receiver was not receiving the signal very good and needed to be replaced. We ordered a new receiver and it arrived Monday and was set up and running in no time. I noticed that email was no longer coming into my Verizon email account so I called to see what the problem might be. For some reason when they moved my DSL they disabled my email account. They had no good explanation for this and after an hour and a half on the phone they had it reconnected. Of course we lost all our email from the time it was disabled until it was reconnected. All this to say, anticipate some problems with your digital equipment and be prepared to spend some time on the phone getting things working right. SITE OF THE MONTH
Since we sort of have a moving theme going this month we felt that if you are moving you could use all the help you can get. These web sites have some great tips for things to do when you are moving to a new home. In hind site we should have probably spent more time reading these sites and less time agonizing over everything.
MARILYN'S CORNERMoving Tips
First of all if you are down sizing get rid of as much as you can and then get rid of more. We thought we did a pretty good job of reducing our stuff but it turns out that we still have way too much stuff. We've barely been here a week and have already made a dump run, given away some stuff and have a charity pickup scheduled.
Tip number two. If you are moving a lot of stuff and the trip to your new home is over two hours away plan a two day move. The movers showed up at our old home at 9:00am and they left our new house at 2:15am the next day! A seventeen hour moving day is not something you want to participate in. We were unloading stuff in the dark and everyone was tired and in a hurry.
Thirdly, if you have people moving you that do not speak your language then figure out a good way to communicate before you start to unload the truck. We had five people unloading the trucks and only a couple of them spoke good English. As the boxes would come of the truck they'd ask where it goes. We'd say "woodshop" and they would put it in the garage. We had boxes scattered all over the place, and in the wrong places.
Fourthly write what all is in each box. Don't be in a hurry and write "kitchen stuff". Spell out what's really in the box. It makes unpacking a whole lot easier.
Hopefully these tips will help you avoid some of the issues we had to deal with. Just keep telling yourself that it will be great once the dust settles.
Lastly have a floor plan where everything will go in your new home. Be sure to draw it to scale so you know that everything will fit. We measured all the furniture in old house and laid it in to the floor plan of our new house. This way we knew what would fit and what we would need to get rid of long before we ever moved. Of course we missed a few things and now are having to deal with them but it really helped for the most part.
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
Ingredients:
Now invite some friends over for a BBQ and serve them this wonderful salad.
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.
While our recipe of the month is really good we thought if you had the option to make 100 different salads would be a good idea. This cookbook is really great and will have you eating healthy salads more often which is a good deal.
Alison M. Robinson from Mountain Brook, AL review this cookbook and wrote: "Simply Salads is number one for me. After using many salad books and having to make many separate recipes for each salad - this book comes along and tells you how to buy bags of pre-washed salad greens
(yes, you can trust that- just check with the UC Berkeley newsletter who convinced me) and other pre-cut vegetables and add in easy ingredients that anyone can find and turn out really fantastic salads that the family will request over and over.
The book is organized in an easy format first explaining all the salad blends, then the recipes are organized by poultry, meat, seafood, vegetable, fruit, bean,grain and pasta, and slaws, with a final chapter for vinaigrettes and dressings that is so good and so healthful that you will never go back to store bought. Easy too!
WOOD PROJECT PLANS
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This months tool suggestion is the same as last months tool. I haven't had time with the move and all to check out any new tools but this tool is so cool that it deserves a second look.
As I said last month a number of years ago I fell off of a deck I was building about 17' in the air and shattered my shoulder. Ever since then it's been really difficult for me to carry heave flat stock like sheets of plywood and sheet rock.
During our move I had sheet rock and plywood that needed to be moved and the Gorilla Gripper made it really easy for me. The sheet rock pieces were a little heavy but it did the job. I even had some sheet rock that still had the tiles attached and it carried them just fine. Just follow the directions that come with it and you'll be carrying flat stock with ease.
New Woodshop
Oh my gosh, where do I begin? It looked so big when we first saw it and I didn't have all my stuff in there.
This is how it looks from the outside before we moved in. It's really a nice space with a roll up door for easy access and a nice window on the south side for light. The big door will really make it easy to get stuff in and out.
In the mean time I have great plans for the space. The walls will be insulated and sheet rocked. Lots of power will be routed around the walls at bench height. Florescent lighting will be added to brighten the place up and I may put in another window on the north side. I plan to install a vacuum system to help keep the dust down and the place clean.
My plan for the layout is pretty simple, the table saw will be in the middle of the room and the work benches and other machines will be around the edge. At least that's my initial plan.
I would like any suggestions that you may have regarding shop layout or vacuum systems. Coming from a tiny 9' X 15' shop this 15' X 20' will feel great. I'm just not sure how to best lay it out. Never having had a vacuum system I'd like to know of any pitfalls you may have experienced.
Just email me at kennyb@runnerduck.com and I'll gladly accept your suggestions.
I hope to have some sort of a project for you next month assuming I get the basics in place. I'll probably be running from extension cords for a while but someday it will be great!
This is from The Tempos piano player Wayne. Were not picking on people from the South but you have to admit these are pretty funny :-)
Georgia:
Alabama:
Tennessee:
The owner of a golf course in Georgia was confused about paying an invoice, so
he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help.
He called her into his office and said, "You graduated from the University of
Georgia and I need some help. If I were to give you $20,000, minus 14%, how
much would you take off?"
The secretary thought a moment, and then replied, "Everything but my earrings."
A group of Alabama friends went deer hunting and paired off in twos for the
day. That night, one of the hunters returned alone staggering under the
weight of an eight-point buck.
"Where's Henry?" the others asked.
"Henry had a stroke of some kind. He's a couple of miles back up the trail,"
the successful hunter replied.
"You left Henry laying out there and carried the deer back?" they inquired.
"A tough call," nodded the hunter. "But I figured no one is going to steal Henry!"
A Tennessee State trooper pulled over a pickup on I-65.
The trooper asked, "Got any ID?"
The driver replied, "Bout whut?"
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