Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

The colors had bled so badly in this photo that this was the best I could do with it.  I hope you'll like it anyway.

How was I to know?

I resurrected this one a bit. Priceless image. Norman must have taken photo. Taken just after I left Penrose to go back to Laramie and try...

I've been working on old picture files for want of anything new to photograph.  I didn't take this photo but fixed it a bit.

We are getting boring and hard up for new things. And I haven't contributed for a long time. So here is Louise all grown up - pre-marri...

Kemp and Sonja found this gladiola cataloge inside a book that Dad had given to Sonja's family. I couldn't find the year, but look ...

I decided to freshen us all up a bit for the New Year.  We all have problems and issues, but we can now put 2011 behind us, remembering the ...

I took an aimless trip to the mall to see if I could get inspired.  And indeed it happened.  It was not in the way I had ever expected.  I c...

With all of the fun Christmas stories, I am hesitant to interject this post, but thought it might be appreciated. Who can resist a beautifu...

The Penrose Church house was in use until the mid 1930s for various activities, and remained in use for occasional activities like elections...

When we were very young, we all continually pestered Mother to get a tree so we could put it up, decorate it, and turn on the magic colored ...

I told Judy last night that I have a theory about why we six have always managed to stick together despite some being fabric store fanatics,...

I'm sure this page from Mother's original photo album has been posted before, but after posting the photo above (I don't know ...

This blurry photo may well be the only one we will ever see of the original Penrose school and school yard in the early 1900s.  The school...

I was going through old photo files today and came across this one. I thought it appropriate even though it may have been posted before.

When we were very young, probably in the 4-6 yr. old range or thereabouts, Mother informed us one wintry day before Christmas that Santa wou...

After much trial and several tribulations here is a background picture. Ann informed me she was tired of autumn leaves and it was Christmas....

When I was six or seven, I told Mother I would like a book about Jesus for Christmas.  So on Christmas morning here was my wondrous book. Th...

My old school chum and Sheep Barn roommate Felix Bessler is in hospice in Cody with terminal lung and liver cancer.  For each of us, we can ...

By the way, the photo I posted on the Blog banner is of the Sacred Grove.  I thought it was appropriate.

Dear Ann: Two days ago Velna reminded me it was your birthday.  Of course, I knew that already.  That was the day I walked downtown to urba...

You couldn't scare anyone if you tried.  Not even your sweet little face would keep the birds out of the strawberries. Please have a ve...

I am sorry to be so slow on this one. I have been "bumping" into these keys for several years as I have gone through stuff trying...

No photos, just a Thanksgiving wish.  Lots to be thankful for this year, hope everyone else feels the same way.  Love from NY

I don't have time to try and play with this photo, but thought it would be worthwhile posting the companion photo to the one Elizabeth j...

The month of October has come and gone, as has the sugar beet harvest. In the "olden days", the beets were dug up in a long row, ...

After a Sunday dinner of fish, which was yummy, I put one last uncooked piece on the stove to cook and promptly got distracted downstairs.  ...

Except for a little of this and a little of that, this beautiful kitchen is almost done.  With a lot of hard work (how many different times ...

This occasion in Penrose when my little family was there, at the same time as Dwight and Velna and their children. There were some choice p...

The names written on the back of this fuzzy, out-of-focus old picture says "Russell Blood & Jack Riddle". Dad's stance gi...