Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

As you will note, Dwight looks studious and scholarly and dignified, while Louise looks demure.  Oh lordy do I remember that checkered jumpe...

Now the scene has changed, and we have the three on the haystack, with Judy in front - My pose is very rude, but I suppose I thought it was...

I know this blog is community property but I took it upon myself to think we had been in Sunday School long enough, and that we probably we ...

Hooray! Let's all run over to Emmy's and pick some!

Brig was probably almost two when this picture was taken. The cat (name, please?) had kittens, and Steve helped Brig locate them. There is...

So Mother did feed cats! - Once upon a time before we children took over and did the auxiliary feeding. Actually, cats were supposed to ea...

This is a special picture. It must have been taken on a Sunday, with Mother all dressed up + the obligatory apron, and baby Ann posing in ...

Seriously, this one is a treasure (the picture, not the kids)

Judy and the black cat. What was his name????? Surely not Midnight? This picture was not a good picture, but the cat is apparent, and it...

   

TTt The top picture is another picture from my very first roll of film.  And the second one is priceless beyond any measure.  Louise and I f...

In discussions with the other two "senior" siblings, we have determined that the younger siblings got by with murder, whereas we o...

Louise got pretty classy when she worked for the REA in Powell, but she was usually home on the weekends. This picture must have been take...

I remember so well, this photo of Steve is the very first picture I ever took with my new Baby Brownie.

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Seriously, we're almost out of cats.  I remember laying down on the ground to take pictures of them, like the first one.  And we can...

How does a cat keep from freezing to death in the Wyoming winter cold? Where did we get this cat? How old was he? Any stories to share? ...

Tonight Paul and I ate creamed asparagus on toast (with a sliced hard boiled egg). Ummmm, it was so good. The main reason I am sharing thi...

Our grandfather, James Brooks Wasden, was not a tall man - probably about 5'8" or so, but he had a very long trunk (body), and sho...

I don't know who we owe for this photo of our Penrose home. The winter of 1959 I spent at BYU. The day I left to return to school the...

The pages are skiwampus (hmmm, is that a word and if it is, how should it be spelled?), the old glue that I used is so stiff that when I mov...