Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

Tucked in the back of Grandpa Wasden's Yellowstone National Park Journal I discovered this very faint photo. On the back there is a not...

Another treasure I discovered today.

These are two more photos that were taken the same day as a previous posting.

Hopefully this can be read once it is posted.

Mom visits us in Fort Collins in 1959 just before we moved to Cheyenne.  We loved our little yellow house.  What year did Mom go to Laramie ...

FFA Banquet 1949 my senior year.  I was FFA pres and Wyo state pres, so I got to preside at the banquet.  Dad and Mom on my right.  State Vo...

We had a phone call last night from Nathan and he had a suggestion for the blog. As I thought about it, I decided the best thing to do was ...

Now, we move on to December, 1953. I was home for college, and Louise was getting married. She had been teaching school in Cody that fall....

For those of you who ask,"Why," this is the answer. 3 1/2 feet since Christmas and the heaviest snow period is yet to come.

It pays to organize your life - new gems keep appearing. This one is a quote from The Daily Olympian - "Judith Petersen, our Olympia...

I am "sorting" papers - organizing my life. Found a page in Mother's handwriting as follows: "Of drink and victuals and ...

I noted a link on Blogspot this morning for Sharedbook.com with Blog2Print. Haven't checked it out, but some of you may want to. Looks...

Here is the second of the two family photos on our outing. Dad, by deduction, took the photo. I'm not aware of any other photo during t...

Dear Siblings, I decided I was tired of same ol' on our community property blog so I experimented a bit. I'm not sure I like it, bu...

This photo is one of the only two photos of which I am aware of our entire family during the second Penrose period except me, the photograph...

This itemized list represents Mother's shopping list for Christmas shopping for 1952. Pop - O Shoes $3.50 Outing Flannel, 22 yd. $11.00 ...

I don't want to mess up Dwight's getting us to round up memories about what early mornings in Penrose were like, but I am cleaning o...

Morning get-out-of-bed-and-get-going time always came early at our house. Dad always had to get up and milk the cows, 30 below zero or not,...

The problem with any spare time is that it gives you time to think. The problem with thinking is that you come up with ideas. The problem ...

Dear tatting experts: TattingChic has sent you a charming comment on the tatted apron, with an invitation to visit her site. So check it ou...

As the face is lightened - this obviously (?) looks like Judy. now holding the infant, perusing Pinocchio, with legs gracefully (another ?)...

Where did the hat come from?

Note the book Judy is reading. How did that ever get in the house? Also Soils and Men, the 1939 Yearbook of Agriculture which got hauled a...