Christmas Gifts to Jonathan & Family

Check your paypal account for money to buy these items we would have chosen for you ~ or pick out something you prefer. Merry Christmas!

Jonathan ~ We wanted to suggest a GPS for you but found out that using A GPS in Spain is illegal.....so we would have got you this indoor outdoor thermometer

Basic 3-Channel Radio Frequency Thermometer
Displays indoor and outdoor temperature
12/24 hour clock with alert
High/low temperature memory
Programmable temperature alert
Remote transmits up to 100'
Degrees C or F selectable
Remote and base station low battery indicator
Auto-scroll function
Calendar
Remote jack for optional 10'' temperature probe for use in pools, freezers and soil
Model# 91455


Rachel ~ we thought you might enjoy a water fountain


Beautiful 11" indoor water fountain with a waterfall pouring from one pot into a another one. Polyresin construction. 2 Water flow speeds and UL certified. Approximate Dimensions: 11" H x 7" L. Cord is 6' 2" long.








Abe ~ for you we would have bought a Battleship Game

Defeat the enemy fleet and rescue your men in the classic tactical combat game. You're the commander of your fleet, so prepare your strategy and lead your troops to victory. Call out your coordinates and mark your hits and misses. Try to destroy your opponent's fleet before they destroy yours, then remove the mission sheet from the command unit to reveal the battlefield. The new double-sided battle grid brings even more excitement to Battleship!
For 2 players
Includes 1 grid
1 base with drawers
10 ships
2 men
145 white pegs
80 red pegs
Mission card
4 rubber feet
2 grid attachments




Lily ~ for you we would have bought this Crayola Twistables Sketch & Draw Set


With the Crayola Twistables Sketch and Draw set, kids can create colorful art anywhere, anytime. The pack is portable.
20 twistables colored pencils
15 Mini Twistables Crayons for thicker lines & shading large areas
4 Super Tips Markers
2 in 1 tip makes thin lines
1 Twistable graphite pencil




We hope you are having a very Merry Christmas and will have a great New Year.



Grandpa Tony (Dad) & Sharon

Christmas Gift for Neil & Becky

Neil & Becky ~ for the two of you we chose a GPS that we would have purchased. Check your Paypal account for enough money to buy this if you choose.

We hope you two are having a very Merry Christmas and will have a great New Year.

Dad & Sharon

Binatone B350 UK Satellite Navigation
Catalogue number: 206-5387
3D Mapping Yes
Accessories Included Includes USB cable & in-car charger
Assembled Weight 0.135
Assembled Weight Units kg
Battery Life up to 4 hours
Brand Binatone
Dynamic Re-routing Yes
Features of Product Full Maps of the UK & ROI. Super bright, 3.5" anti-reflection touch screen . Super slim profile. Thousands of Points of interest including petrol stations, Hotels, restaurants and local attractions. Multiple languages and user friendly interface. SD Card slot - Use your Sat Nav as a Digital picture and document viewer
High-sensitivity Receiver Yes
Horizontal Display Resolution Pixels 320
Internal Battery Type Rechargeable Lithium Ion
Mac Software Included Download from manufacturers website
Maps Included Yes
Memory Type Internal
Minimum PC System Requirements Microsoft XP
Navigate To Postcode Full 6/7 Digit
Navigate To Street Name No
PC Software Included Yes
Picture Viewer Yes
Points of Interest Included Yes
Portable Yes
Power Supply UK and Ireland
Safety Camera Warning Yes
Screen Size 3.5"
Spoken Directions Yes
Suction Mount Included Yes
Touch Screen Yes
USB Interface Yes

Christmas Greetings from Tony & Sharon

This is our Christmas letter for 2009, written by Tony. If anyone would like their Christmas letter to go out to all the Singleton family on the blog, you can email it to me. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hi you guys and a Merry 2009 Christmas,

We’re here again in front of the computer trying hard to remember all the things we’ve done this past year and why we did them. The first three months we spent in Arizona as before, this got us away from the harsh Idaho winter and into the far warmer conditions near the Mexican border. Boon docking or dry camping, as its known, out in the desert for half of that time is rather nice especially with our own car and ATV and friends to go on long rides and adventures with. Having said that we had to be towed across the desert because our ATV broke down with serious transmission failure thus meaning a complete strip down when we get back home. But by the beginning of April it began to get too hot so back up North we came.

Sadly this year we made two long trips to Nebraska for two funerals of Sharon’s aunts Despite the sombre occasions it was really good to get to see some of her friends and relatives out there – her mother and all her three uncles and aunts are in their late 80’s and early 90’s and have been married 65 years or more.

I finally finished making an oak pedestal desk for our office, a project started last year in an attempt to hide away all the cables of the computer and printer. Then Sharon wanted something similar to match it but not quite so lavish – she now has an oak "skirt" round her desk which seems to fit the bill.

There was so much rain and snow here during the winter our back lawn was flooded when we came home. This coupled with the risk of our motor home sinking into the mire prompted us to get a friend to excavate a large area about 15 inches deep and fill it with aggregate so we could have a reliable place to park it. Then we opened up the workshop to create enough space for a medium sized centre lathe for me to "play on".

Sharon made preparations for family gatherings on Easter Sunday, Mothers’ Day and of course the 4th of July. On one of these events there were 28 people trying to sit round our 12-seater dining table. She continues to paint pictures, blog, crochet, and cross stitch. She convinced me to make her rails to hang on one of our hallway walls so her paintings could be displayed. The grandchildren are here often ~ which keeps her young.

When time permits we still love to go camping to our favourite Meadow Creek spot. I’m afraid swinging an axe to split our quota of winter logs is getting just a touch too difficult so we had to give in this year and buy some from one of our camping friends. I then made a mechanical log splitter.

We spent a really nice week with my cousin Linda and Mike up in Glacier National Park, Montana. Not to see the glaciers, they’ve all gone, but to see how they totally reshaped some of the mountains up there. On the way we visited a pottery shop, a coffee bean factory and a drive round a black bear park. Later in the year we drove out into the wilds of Idaho to a little place called Dixie from where we took a lengthy ATV ride down some 4000 feet to a remote area beside a swift river where they actually had a small sandy beach. People really lived down there and their only access was by small plane or ATV across a narrow bridge.

A week over Thanksgiving at Sharon’s brother’s homes in Riverton WY and Green River WY was a lot of fun and we were fortunate with the weather. We have a Christmas party planned here at home and one more small trip planned to Leavenworth WA for the Christmas lighting festivities with friends the week before Christmas. We look forward to visits from UK relatives next year after our return from being "snowbirds" in Arizona & California.

Retirement is still good to us but we’re all getting older so drink the good wine first!

Happy Christmas
Sharon and Tony