Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

Steve was still a little twerp when I left home and could no longer tell him to keep quiet and not disturb me.  So I've had a...

Happy Birthday to Elizabeth (Liz), my childhood pal, my beet hoeing partner, and my lifelong friend.  The memories of your handle o...

Memorial Day 2013.  I always remember that when we were still home, Mother cut a bouquet of lilacs and iris, if either were b...

Ahh - it's that time of year - Memorial Day, Steve's birthday and my birthday.  Time for the lilacs over at Emmy's to be in fu...

We have successfully migrated, thanks to our two helpful sons.  There are few visible changes here.  The Arctic Circle is still where it use...

Meet Oliver, He's our new rescue Airedale that's supposed to be coming to our house if all goes well in about a week or so. ...

About the first of the week I received a large brown envelope from Dwight.  I was somewhat apprehensive as I pondered what could be inside. ...

While I am waiting for the photos that were taken of the Tanner group at Kelsey's wedding, I thought I would share a few from the day.  ...

Judy's day has almost come and gone.  All of a sudden there was this memory jolt that said there was one more thing I wanted to do today...

After I did some spring redecorating of our blog, I just sat and looked at the incredible beauty of the multi-colored pansies and the purple...

I suppose there should be a photo to go with this, but - oh, well. Today is a monumental day.  No more wheelchair, no more knee scooter, n...

It seems as if we  dyed Easter eggs every year that I can remember.  Fortunately, on the farm, eggs were usually to be had in abundance.  ...

The blossoms in the big photo above are truly springlike and lovely - gives the rest of us who may be in a climate that is slower to have an...

This sheet of paper has become very important to me.  Judy tried to explain these exercises to me over the phone, but due to diminished br...

Because you have called and asked about an update, I can't resist posting this photo taken today.  I suspect this was a moment of grea...

I know that we have posted these previously, but now you have everything close together.

The hands belong to Nathan.  The little tiny body belongs to Gwen Alaina Tanner who decided she needed to come into this world two months ...

 There is so much to be read between the lines here.  Who wants to start?

  Dwight (and everyone else) wrote letters to cheer Mother while she was in the hospital at Billings.  It was perhaps due to a po...

Elizabeth has previously posted both of these letters, but she asked if I would do a rescan of them to see if we could get a more...

Dad gave this letter to me when Ron and I lived on Tumwater hill.  I wish I could find the original - it's here in my papers somewh...

You must click on this letter to enlarge it.  I apologize for the dark parts - when I copied this about 20 years ago, my printer wasn'...

In light of Ann's misfortune I think there are questions that need to be asked. 1: Why would she venture out to the barnyard, alt...

We have had a rash of ailments lately.  Maybe a purple lilac is just the ticket after the latest tragedy on Downton Abbey.  We wish you a...

Remember when Ron and Elizabeth left the snow shoveling and spent the winters in Arizona?  This is such a good picture of our sister baski...

This is my all time favorite photo of Ann and Paul.  I think this is how they will look in the resurrection.....to perfection with their w...

  I just found these photos dated 1968.  Perhaps they are appropriate to post now while many family members have struggled with unusal a...