Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

In case you wonder if any of us DO anything with all of the fabric we accumulate, here is proof and someone (Ann) did something with some of...

I posted this photo much earlier in the blog, but we were missing a clue as to who they are. Here is another photo with a clue. The handw...

The Penrose Church no longer was used for LDS church meetings after sometime in the 1930s.  I remember going to Sunday School and sitting on...

Judy pointed out that when I took the Penrose Church picture off the blog header, no other copy of the photo existed on the blog.  So Judy, ...

This may have been posted before, but while we're on the subject, here it is again.  The house had been long abandoned and we always hat...

The year is missing on this letter Uncle Brooks wrote to Mother and Dad, but in it there is a discussion of what to do with the treasures th...

Dolores Bovee Bleekman sent me a copy of this clipping she found in the Tribune. January 1,1931 Another Powell Teacher Married, According to...

Something else that belongs in the record.

I have often teased about the experiences some of us had in the beet field. For some of us (Judy and me) it was short lived - shorter for m...

Here are a few lines from a poem by Thomas Hood I included in my book "Echoes of My Wyoming Boyhood."  I hope I am not infringing ...

Posted by request of Judy.  This photo shows the house after it had been abandoned for years. The siding was applied after our family left i...

I came across a series of portrait like pictures of Dad, the one posted yesterday at 3 months, the one posted previously at 3 1/2 years (if ...

With the many posts we have on the blog, I suspect there is the possibility of repeating a photo, but I don't recall this one being post...

I took this picture with Dwight's Baby Brownie that he gave me. Note that the gate is still useable, to keep out the neighbors' co...

This may have been posted before.  Look at the sweet innocence?

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.