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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