Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

Louise Kray (Krajicek) Blood, our lovely grandmother whom we never met, who died in childbirth at the age of 26.

This was before my time and no doubt means more to the older siblings. It was given to me in my early years as a stamp collector.

Some days we may laugh. Some days we may cry. Some days the pain may seem unbearable. Some days and nights we may be afraid. One day the yel...

There is a company (probably more than one) that will take the blog and print it out and bind it. Laura will find the web site and I will ge...

Dwight's comment about archiving our blog started me wondering what to do with this really valuable record we are developing. Here are ...

This is one of the snapshot - scrapbooks that Mother and Dad made during the 1930's to supplement our meager income. They also made ladi...

Just for fun, this is one of the "Penrose" cups we used forever. We drank our hot milk or ovaltine from them on cold winter nig...

This is a copy of a contract Grandpa signed the day after the first contract that is posted on the blog. This is written on a heavier paper,...

This is a copy of the original contract between Grandpa Wasden and someone by the name of Joseph Clifford for the purchase of 80 acers (as s...

Judy and Ann dyeing Easter eggs.  This activity usually brought about some serious knock-down-and drag-out fights when all of us were at hom...

When we started this little Blood family blog, I thought it would be a good way to be able to be the first to find out stuff from my sisters...

Surprise! I am trying my wings. So don't everybody faint. I worked on this quilt for quite a few years, including when I was o...

Just as we have been learning about family blogs and discovering new things each day about the possibilities for preserving family history, ...

Here was our past! Right before my eyes in Country Sampler, Nov 2007. You are right, magic was in the simplest of things.

Mother read to Steve, Ann and me on ocassion. But at bedtime, I often got the honors.

Okay, Ann, here are the next two pages. And the end of the story on one page more, goes like this: "For Alice my wife, The plague of my...

We loved these revolving Christmas tree light shades which were mounted on a colored Christmas tree light and then revolved from the heat of...

Remember the times Mother would read to us from this old Children's Literature book? (Her college text) One time that I vividly remember...

These are the keys to the kingdom, otherwise known as the Penrose Church. We did have to talk Mother into permission for the keys, before we...

Imagine all of these children attending the Penrose school.  I think Aunt Cindy (Lucinda Sorensen) is the girl with the sheep in the lower r...

The Penrose Sunday School Congregation.  Mother (Minnie Wasden) is the second girl from the right in the second row.  Correct me if I am wro...

How could I forget to post the picture!  You must double click on this one.

Dad made this picture frame for Mother's college placement picture so that he could take it with him when he was away from home during t...

This church was built from lumber sawed from logs that were in a logjam on the Shoshone River, a short distance from where the Church stood....

What fun! Reading through the Kray family Round Robin I just received. There is a website for the Riddle Dude Ranch, now called 7D Ranch.  G...

Ann, Judy, and Liz; future quilters and fabric hoarders

I haven't discovered how to iron out the wrinkles - but this way is much more authentic. In the treasures that found their way to my hou...

Mother's Bible and the pink heart-shaped necklace Dad gave her late in life.  Does everyone remember David slaying Goliath as well as I ...