Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

These are the other notes that were in Grandpa's little brown notebook. Hopefully, if you click on the image, it will enlarge enoug...

Since everyone is so busy posting family keepsakes on here, I thought I'd post one of the few that I have.  Dad probably carried this po...

I suspect I am not the only one who can remember how Grandpa Wasden always seemed to have this little book, or one similar to it, in his poc...

The original of this letter must exist somewhere because I only have a copy. Note the letter heading. The text of the letter follows: Yello...

And this is? I think this picture came from someone's locket because of the way it was cut. It is in very poor condition.

Which of us never played with this steel rule, making it bounce up and down, or unfolding it to see how far it reached? I, for one, was fas...

Can you smell the shaving soap? That stirs up memories of seeing Dad shaving in our kitchen/bathroom on Sunday mornings while several other...

Dr. Quick was Mary Blood (our father's step-mother's) father. He was the attending physican for our grandfather Roscoe. In this l...

This letter speaks for itself. When Dad found this letter in his things in the early '80s, he brought it to me, chuckling about the ...

Another letter from the March that Dad was in Edmonton. Louise always was the neat one - This letter reflects her tidy habits. She is the ...

Sorry these copies are so awful. I made them in 1994 when I had access to the letters. When you click on them to enlarge them, they are r...

Until I scanned this picture, I always thought it was just a photo of the cabin which Dad helped build while living at the ranch. Be sure ...

What will the weather be like today? This is what has been going on in the mountains - this was taken on Friday. There was lots of snow un...

This picture is undated - I always thought from this picture that our great-grandmother must have been pretty strong spirited. Her sisters...

Our uncle, David Wasden, and Mother had an interesting relationship. She wrote letters to him on his mission - I have some of the ones he ...

Is this the picture of Grandma that also hung in their bedroom? Elizabeth, is this the black dress you wore?

By August of 1953, I was getting desperate for more news from home, so I made up this "form" letter, which was pretty nonsensical,...

This is a report. It was another cold, wet, nasty,dreary, cold (did I already say that?) day in the great northwest. So to warm up the bod...

When this wonderful communication came to me, I had been in Laramie almost a month, and was dreadfully homesick. I had just graduated from...

In the spring of 1953, I rebelled against the edict that I could not try out for the Senior Class Play, "The Madwoman of Chaillot...

The back of this photo reads: "Russell little Big Chief at our home in Mitchell, Nebraska". Here he is a typical little boy. W...

The Saturday Haircut? Don't have a date for this memorable picture - and I didn't take it, but isn't it wonderful? Dad (Russel...

These are interesting for several reasons. Look at the misspelling of Mother's middle name, and of Grandma Wasden's maiden name. D...

The date on this letter was March 12, 1929. Who do you suppose wrote like this? If I had to write like this, I wouldn't have time to d...

So, do you suppose this meant survival for another year?

Missed this one on Liz's birthday.

Missed this one on Judy's birthday.