Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

As you can see, this letter was written in 1961 and I was living in Seattle by then.  I loved Steve's illustrations on his letters.  It ...

As you can see, Judy was always very creative, especially when she had an ulterior motive. I can remember receiving this wonderful newslett...

Because tomorrow is Judy's birthday, and because I am headed to Phoenix to watch a granddaughter in Alice in Wonderland (she is young A...

Postmarked 1959 Dear Judith, "My dear loving, loved (sometimes) sister, a miracle has occurred.  We can now start communicating again...

I have lost the envelope and have no date for the following letter.  I am thinking it was while I was at BYU. Dear Pudy,      I'm p...

Does anyone know the history? This was in some of Mother's papers.

Written in a little journal Dad kept: "Feb 12 rained all day everything a lobolly where Paul leveled for garage. didn't do much s...

This is another picture of our great-uncle, Isaac Wasden. Even though he lived in Garland, in what used to be the old bank, I can't rem...

This picture was taken from the Pocatello newspaper of Idaho's Attorney General, Lawrence Wasden. We assume that those bearing the Wasd...

Thanks everyone, these are the first tulips we've seen. They really brighten the place up.  Love, Steve

How I wish these days didn't come - illness is for someone else, but not for dearly loved ones. Today's wish for Steve is for a ...

CROW BAIT.  Needs no further expaination. OLD BIIDDIES.  Likewise tells it's own story. LOBLOLLY. A combination of LOB, a bubbling mas...

These 2 pictures have been posted previously and separately.  After spending the evening on the phone with Shannon and comparing these two ...

The ground behind the dog is flat with the driveway loaded with flowering shrubs, evergreens, etc. we'll see them again someday.

The storm was supposed to pass us by and we got 25 inches total. Today it was supposed to snow and we got that nasty ole sunshine.

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...