Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

From Steve:  Distant and not so distant memories of one of the solid bricks in our family's foundation.   Because of the age diffe...

From Louise           Elizabeth and Louise doing the dishes - Penrose kitchen - before we had indoor plumbing - 1948 ? I was almost 4 years ...

 From Judy Elizabeth: Her home attire was jeans rolled half way up her calf, a cotton shirt with the tails out, her saddle or penny loafer...

  Elizabeth – I’m not sure where to start. As my older sister, there were many things I idolized about her. She was   smart, talented and of...

I called Judy this morning with a special request: I asked if I could get a small quilt for my recliner with a block from each of my quiltin...

Grandma Louise had given birth to a baby boy on Aug 23, 1909.  He died at birth. Elsie, her sister wrote this letter to their mot...

I had so much fun with Louise's collection of memorabilia, that when I came across my art endeavors from early grade school, I scanned t...

Dear Family, With our house beginning to feel very empty, there is time to take a few minutes and share a couple of things. First, in ho...

I don't remember Dad ever wearing sunglasses , but I do remember that tilt of his head so that the brim of his straw hat or winter ...

A wonderful service was held at the Henderson LDS chapel on Saturday.  With beautiful music, and heartfelt messages by his daughters, and t...

All of my good photos of Ron include Elizabeth.  That tells the story.  This morning at 11 am Pacific time and 12 noon Mountain time, f...

 As we go through this low place on our life travels,  beautiful flowers are reminders of the many blessings we have experienced during th...

My whole life, I have struggled to learn from my Mother, Judy.  First there was the sewing lessons.  I remember sitting in front of ...

This is my favorite gardening coat, mostly warm and water proof, with a hole from our last burn.  When it is really cold, this is the s...

It is very appropriate that I found this little jewel at this time of year, the season of Christmas and the marriage of Dwight Blood an...

Happy Birthday to Ann To our dear Annie:  I believe today is your birthday.  I remember well the day you were born as I disc...

This morning I had such an enlightening conversation with Dwight that ended with a discussion on the origin of the saying, "mind your ...

It's been so long since I posted anything but I couldn't resist on this one. As I am going through some of my "stuff" I r...

Dear Dad, Today is father's day and I want to honor your memory on this day.  Being a father to six children and making enough of a l...

Just in case anyone remembers the old Penrose Mornings blog and is looking here for a reminder of our mother, here she is!  I want to be j...

As I look at my bookshelf I find that I am very rich in the history of our family members.  It amazes me that four of my siblings have writt...

Dwight and I had a discussion this week about getting our mail from Grandpa Wasden's mailbox by walking down the longer lane headed...

Remember when Ann was a little twerp?  Her hair was so long that the only way Mother could keep it neat was to braid it into very long bra...

Today at 2:00 pm MST the Blood Family will gather together in Riverton, Utah to rejoice and to give thanks and to mourn.  Since I will not b...

On October 15, 2015, Dwight wrote and posted on his own blog the following: "The gift of hope is one of our mos...

October 4 was always a special day for me because that was mother's birthday.  I tried to send her a birthday message and a card every y...