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)

Tony's Scholar's Reports

Jonathan & Neil - have fun looking at your Dad's grades. I think he seems a lot smarter than these grades show!!! Have fun. As always, click on picture to see in a larger screen. Never fear, Terry, your turn is coming soon.

Niagara Falls Lamp

I went out on the web to try to find a picture of the lamp everyone is remembering - Niagara Falls.

Tony tells me that the lamp was oval....of course, he doesn't really remember the picture on the lamp. He just remembers the inside of the lamp because he took it apart to see how it worked, of course. In later years, he remembers repairing the lamp

My Mom and Dad also had a Niagara Falls lamp, and I remember it being round - but have no recollection of what made it work.

I found this lamp at this site - Antique - selling for $150.00, in case anyone wants to have one in their home to remind them of their youth.

This one was listed on a UK web site.

To the left is another sample of the Niagara Falls lamp, but it was produced much earlier than the ones above, I think.

And, finally, A lamp with two different views and a close-up also.