Going South - Reason

This is a picture of our snow at our home last year while we were in Arizona. This is why we leavce to go south to become "snowbirds" every year since retirement. The snow was worse this year (record breaking) - dumping over eight inches of snow on Saturday before we decided to take off.

We decided to leave on Sunday, 12/29, because it looked as if there was a break in the weather. We began by moving the motorhome out of the drive. Because it was so icy on the roads we thought it best to take it over to our nearby grocery store parking lot to load. This was accomplished with ease by 7 a.m. Then we hooked the car to the trailer to pull it out. That didn't go so well. With the ice on the drive and the 5 foot bank of snow.....it took us over four hours to simply get the trailer down to the parking lot where the motorhome was waiting.

After a couple of hours Sharon called son Dennis and grandson Casey to come by to help. Dennis and Tony decided the best thing to do was to slide the trailer on the ice away from the snow bank by pulling it. It's hard to describe what all we went through just getting out of the drive, and I wish I had been taking pictures to send along with this blog. However, I think if I had even dared bring out my camera, Tony might have snapped! His nerves were just a little on edge after our ordeal.

Lukily, we judged correctly. The drive was relatively easy with no snowfall, roads were wet but bare the first day. We sailed through the 1100 miles with no mechanical problems and arrived in Quartzsite on New Year's Eve in time to make chili for all our friends and have a New Year's Eve party in the motorhome.

This is what Tony was been doing almost daily for a week in Moscow, with some help from me.





Hope everyone had a great Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!!

Singleton Great Grandparents/Grandparents/Parents

This will probably be the last Singleton post for 2008. And...also the last pictures and information that we have of the "grandparents" generation.

This bible is 110 years old according to the date inside the cover. Bible belonged to Emily Pithers, showing date of Christmas 1898, and name of giver I.E. Sory. Information about Emily Pithers according to the descendants of William Singleton that we have: "JOHN HENRY SINGLETON was born 06 Aug 1867 in Eaton, England, and died about 1948 in England. He married EMMA HARIETT PITHERS between Oct - Dec 1899, daughter of JAMES PITHERS and SOPHIA. She was born 01 Aug 1878 in Battersea, London, England, and died about 1968 in England." Problem with dates and names here. Info lists name as Emma born 1899. Bible lists name as Emily, alive in 1898.


This picture shows a page inside a different bible. A notation inside "Evelyn Mary Olive from Mrs. Tom Heathcote, November 6th, 1904." Does anyone know who Mrs. Tom Heathcote was? Information about Evelyn Olive according to the descendants of William Singleton that we have: "GEORGE STANLEY SINGLETON was born 22 Feb 1905 in England, and died 09 Apr 1972 in England. He married EVELYN MARY OLIVE. She was born 04 Oct 1905 in England, and died 22 Feb 1990 in England." It seems this is off a year also if bible was given to her in 1904.

Uncle Bill (born 04 Jan 1903) Singleton on left, other person unknown












Picture caption is "Grandad, Grandma Craig, 1969, 66 Market Street." Tony labels it as "Uncle Harold" (Evelyn Mary's brother).










Grandma Emma Hariett Singleton (Emily) on left (other person unknown), Hill View Nursing Home, 1962??, very old place. Tony remembers that the washing machines were driven by a big steam engine. Not sure about the date. This would make Emma (Emily) 84 years old when this picture was taken.

Tribute to Terry

This is a collage of some of the pictures we have of Terry - in no particular order. Have fun!!

Terry in Wales, 1998


















Terry at a Steam Rally in the 90s








Terry & ?? in 90s











Terry trimming tree at Tony's house in UK in 90s











Terry on left of these two pictures - not sure who the other guy is.

Caption says "Terry w/tasche, 1969"

Terry on right

Terry in sweater knitted by Tony.

Picture on left shows 1963 on back

Picture on right - 5-1/2 years old

Picture on left 6 years old

2004 Trip to USA

Nov, 2005, UK

Oct, 2005, Spain

Workshop Endeavor

Tony has been working hard on a new desk for himself. I'm sure he knows that when it is finished and placed next to my desk in the office, he'll probably have to build another one. I learned from my Dad's buiding days that the second one is always better!!

Tony drew the design on Solidworks shown in Pictures #1 and #2 and wrote the explanation for all the pictures in an email he sent to one of my interested brothers....so, I just grabbed the pictures and explanation......and here they are.

This is just to show how good he is....something he won't do!! And....Terry, it is still your turn to be "roasted" on the blog, but it may have to wait until after Christmas and when we are in Arizona.

#1 is the front of the desk showing proposed rear PC access to cables etc and Printer/Scanner access.

#2 is the working side showing PC access to drives and drawers (haven't yet decided on handles). Visible items are red oak, invisible are birch plywood.

#3 is one pedestal carcass

#4 is the other pedastal with one of the five drawers mounted.

All the cut pieces of wood you see on the right are dough dollys in the making. Dennis needs all these for the pizza stores. Tony is waiting for the casters to be delivered to finish them.

Sharon & Tony wish you a Merry Christmas

Our Christmas letter written by Dad/Grandpa (Tony) (Uncle Tony). Push play by the Smiley Icons for our interactive Christmas Card.

Hi all you good people and a Merry 2008 Christmas,

Time again for another report on yet another full and active Summer and Autumn, all starting with a far too early return from the south in April. Up here in Moscow we had continued snow and rain right into June and to make matters worse we’d burned all our supply of logs from last year with no prospect of getting anywhere near the snowbound campsite to get more.

We bought a new car in April to replace the aging 1980 Dodge Colt which we donated to Sharon’s youngest, Kenny, thinking that it would go to a good home knowing that it was his Grandma’s. Jobs around the home started with making rug frames, repairing sewing machines, adding more roof space insulation, remodeling the deck, taking out the front hedge, trying to revive the lawn, and so on and so on.

To try out the car we took a trip to Wyoming to see brother-in-laws Jim and Dick and their families but stopped en route in Salt Lake City to visit the magnificent Morman Temple Square, where we heard the 300 strong choir rehearsing one evening and a practice session on the world famous organ during the afternoon.

A little later in the year we took Sharon’s mum and Bob over to South Dakota and Nebraska for a week to visit all the relatives and friends there. We spent as much time as possible between jobs this year at the campsite on our ATV and in September we travelled to UK to my brother Terry and Jacqueline’s home in Wiltshire for his eldest daughter’s wedding.

This gave me a rare opportunity to meet up again with sons Jonathan and Neil & Becky and to resample good old fish and chips, pork pies, Bovril, real bread and decent beer. As if we hadn’t had enough fun this year we flew down to Daytona Beach in October with brother-in law Bill and Janet to stay at Sharon’s eldest son’s apartment - Dennis rents out this apartment and we took advantage of it being unoccupied for one week.

When we’re not enjoying all these activities I keep busy in my little wood shop making shop and home furniture and Sharon has now embarked on weblog writing to show the rest of the world details of our respective families and their accomplishments and lineage. A few sidetrips included tubing behind a boat, parasailing, geocaching with grandkids, a wedding in Coeur d'Alene, riding bikes down the Hiawatha trail, Boyer Dam with grandkids, and pool/birthday parties at Dennis & Jeanna's pool.

Health wise we’re still in pretty good shape but I must say that little aches and pains are definitely on the increase. We’re having a Christmas party here on the 20th to get together with those friends that haven’t already left for Arizona. We’re looking forward again to see them there and with decent road conditions we’re hoping to leave right after Christmas. This year we will be taking the ATV as well as the car with us. Then we can explore the Arizona and California deserts.

We hope that everyone we couldn’t get to see this year is fit and well and wish you all a merry old Christmas and a happy new year.

Merry Christmas from Sharon


Merry Christmas from Grandpa, Dad, Uncle, Tony



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Christmas Greetings

Tony and I are going to save a tree this year by posting our Christmas letter to all of you on this blog site on Wednesday, 12/10. If any of you would like to send your best wishes to all the family through posting on this site, please do.

If you would prefer that I do the post for you, just send me your Christmas greetings (via email) and I will do the post.

Enjoy!!

From Dad/Grandpa, (Tony), (Uncle) (play)



From Sharon (play)