Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

       Actually, Ann and Paul look too citified to be ordinary chicken farmers - they have an elite bunch, which are probably pam...

Where did we all go?  Can't believe that we let the 14th slip by without a mention on the blog of the birthday of our family matriarch...

As Steve and I were talking today, we talked about the Grizzly Creek Ranch in Montana, where he had built some of the lights.  Click on this...

When Ann published the photo of their reunion I called and asked her if it was even legal to have that large a family in America these d...

"Shall we gather at the river....the beautiful, beautiful river......" The Cowlitz River, full of glacier melt from the hot ...

What I have learned since I have received and begun reading my sister, Elizabeth’s, beautifully printed book. 1.          To record o...

I hated to interrupt the fun flow about the visit to Layton, but this picture is a mystery that needs to be solved.  I found this extre...

Ann and I went to Layton yesterday to see our sister Louise.  We visited extensively and Louise gave us a tour of ...

As I'm sorting through boxes and boxes of old pictures and documents (translation, Stuff), I ran across this letter - I know that I ha...

Father's Day 2013.  Dad has been gone since 1993.  I stopped writing in my journal on the day Steve called me at 4:00 a.m. bu...

So here's how the day went.  Judy woke me up at 10:a.m. since I was having a nap to make up for my sleep deprived night.  While ...

I am doing the mammoth job of sorting through boxes of pictures that have never been put into an album (old way), or scanned and put on...

There has been more nonsense over making "the bag" these past several weeks than one could imagine.  However, my end result does...

Ann, Judy and I have worked on a project found on Crabapple Hill Studio web site.  The company is found in eastern Washington.  Louise opt...

Name that place!  I don't remember a water tower that looks like this! Now I know where we are! The week of Memorial ...

Because our family blog (Grandma's Fried Oatmeal) is private and some of you can't get access to it, I thought I would post a couple...

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...