Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

No haying picture collection can be complete without this one of Mother and Ann. (Another Dwight Blood Photo) Mother could swing a pitchfork...

The last name of Metlicka , which is signed on this card to Grandma Louise, is a name that I had seen in Mother's family history stuff...

I include this photo of precious little Dwight because it is the only other photo of which I am aware that shows the actual condition of the...

These pictures were taken in Dad's log cabin woodshop that he used when they lived on 93rd S. in Tumwater (Olympia) Washington. This i...

Grandpa Wasden's stack yard.  The Jackson Fork was probably one of the last ones in the entire area still in use in the early 1950s.  A ...

Dad on load of hay, with Pet and Babe, on the lane to our house The Nostalgic Haying Inlaid Marquetry Picture of Dad's Dad (Russell) on ...

"Schoolchildren joined housewives in supporting the effort by signing this pledge: 'At (the) table I'll not leave a scrap of f...

When I saw this among the papers, I said aha, now I know what this is. I had a good time matching names to the faces of the earlier post of ...

Mother (Minnie Blood) wrote down every penny received and every penny spent for many years.  Then, one day, she just stopped writing everyth...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rhutch/famhistory/twasden/thomas_wasden_journal.html Try this website for the few pages f...

Dad (Russell M. Blood) was fascinated with pictures in one of the books I sent Mom and Dad from Germany. The challenge of doing the woodwo...

I apologize for the keystoning on this picture - will take a better one some time. The date that is woodburned on the front is not discerni...

I don't know the date for the making of this cabinet, so I expect some of you in the know to tell me. The marquetry pictue inlaid on t...

As I was sitting in the courthouse hallway waiting to be a witness in an armed robbery case I happened to be sitting next to a gentleman th...

This is an entry that was found in the Latter-Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia Volume IV dated July 4, 1936: WASDEN, James B., Bishop of ...

This is an early picture of our grandmother, Tilda Christena Christenson [ Wasden ]. The original is either a tintype or a daguerreotype....

Mother introduced me to grape hyacinths. Though she never declared her favorite flower per previous posts, I sure think of her when mine ...

The following appears in the Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Hist...

I found one more photo of the first Penrose home from 1931-1941, again long after it had been abandoned and covered in brick siding.  Since ...

This is the only known photo of Moses Blood, husband to Sarah Batty Hawkins, and father of our grandfather, Roscoe Blood. He and Sarah marr...

This picture of Dad (Russell Marion Blood) was taken about the time he was 1 1/2 years old - the same time the classic picture with his mot...

This is another of the unidentified family pictures that we have in our posession. Are these the grandparents? (What a wonderful moustache!...

This is a funeral card for our great-grandfather, Moses Blood, who died at age 45 after an accident in the woods. Evidently, he lingered f...

This picture was in Aunt Lucinda Wasden Sorensen's photo album that I inherited. The inscription under her identifying label says ...

According to the notation on the back of this picture, this is Jack Riddle on the left, and you can't mistake Dad (Russell M. Blood) on...

Lucinda, Minnie, James B. Wasden, Tilda Wasden, Orvil, Elna All Grandpa ever did was work and these clothes were his work uniform, and these...

Dear Friend, We are excited to see your consistent visit to our family blog. Our wish is that you might have some interest in our family na...

I just want to say "thank you" to Dwight for his insight in getting this "project" going. I know it takes time and ener...