Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

Louise and Cheryl came to visit yesterday - This quilt of Cheryl's was the most exciting quilt we shared.  Family visits occur less of...

It was fun to see Elizabeth's post of the photos from what seems like forever ago. I thought I would share just a little bit of how our...

Pictures are still waiting to be sorted into their proper places, but that job has been put on the back burner while I do other things,...

Here is what I know today: I have spent considerable time trying to shrink the size of the heading photo for this blog.  Blogspot, being...

As I have been writing on "my story", there have been many obstacles to overcome.  At least The Cat has decided to stretch out bet...

We would know that hat anywhere!  Farmer Wasden standing in the beet field.  His legs weren't long so that make the beet leaves look e...

Aunt Sofe with baby.       

Another Wasden photo that I don't think has been previously posted on the blog??? I do love David's hat and Cindy's pigtail...

How stylish!  Our Aunt Cindy.......

I would have thought this was a family picture, with Grandma Tilda C. Wasden, Great-aunt Minnie Taylor from Gunnison, UT, and Bothilda McB...

I spent an hour trying to reduce the size of the blog heading and so far have not been successful.  Apparently you have to go into HTML ed...

Can anyone date this picture, taken in Grandma and Grandpa Wasden's yard in Penrose.  This picture probably came from Aunt Cindy's...

At the cajoling and the encouraging comments from siblings, I have been working on my story.  However, I have come to the conclusion that ce...

Thank you, Ann.  When Ann sent us the CDs of so many family treasures, including recordings of past family get-togethers at Mother and Daddy...

There is one photo missing in Elizabeth's post about our visit to Preston, and here it is.  The Ott Light is still adding some dimensio...

       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 ...