Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

Beautiful Kathryn Ann and her little daughter, Kristen helping with a wedding at the Puget & Yew chapel.  1983.  That was a wonderful ...

Please note:  Louise's comment for Dwight's post about the Penrose kitchen!  I found it in the waiting to be reviewed to be publishe...

As best as I can remember, here are the items that were in the kitchen of our Penrose home during the years I was there between 1944 and 194...

I have debated about putting this in an email or posting it on the blog, but since the blog seems to need an infusion of energy, I decided...

I do hate to put anything on the blog to go ahead of the wonderful pictures of Laura's beautiful day, but I keep looking at old pict...

Here are a few photos from Laura and Jeremy's wedding.  Sweet times! The day was perfect - blue skies but very chilly.  Storms were ...

For our 50th Anniversary, we had planned to have an "official" portrait done.  So here we are four years later and we finally ...

    Notice this was to "Judy and Ann and Stephen" yet Dwight is mentioned.  Believers vs. non-believers?    I have lo...

 This is the last of the Christmas letters I have - I think! There is no year on this letter, however I suppose we could have the ...

  Elizabeth captured this story-telling  picture of Mother on a cold Christmas Morning in 1955.  Details reveal that she had on her milk...

Since winter weather in Laramie has been so cold this season, it is a good time to look back to "other winters" and the univer...

Happy Birthday to Ann                                                                             ...

I got my Social Security number on 12/12/36, so it must have been the winter of 1936-37 when I stayed at Brasher's wash house.  Drove in...

 If only someone would tell me how to get these pictures in the proper order for my story, I would appreciate it.  Anyway, this is one of ...

First, as to new blog decorations.  Here is Liz's famous map of the country where we grew up.  Second, I know that some of my redecorati...

Facebookees have started a "throwback Thursday" tradition.  That tradition might be fun for us to do, either to rerun photos or...

 So happy to see Louise that I couldn't quit talking long enough for a picture.  Diana, her husband Larry, and Cheryl completed the co...

I did continue to learn things last week.  One day I was asking Eli if he really liked first grade.  He gave me this incredulous look and wi...

Ann did come to see me last Tuesday, and I took several pictures of her just to prove that she was here, BUT, my photographic skills let m...

Most of my thoughts could hardly be classified as deep, and everyone already knows all of my philosophies are errant.  Nonetheless, here is ...

Friday was  - let's just say we all survived.  It started with me being awakened at 6:00.  Can you believe an 8th grader gets up at 5:30...

My Adventure began yesterday (Thursday) about 2:00 when Kristen and Matt left for the airport.  Their suitcases were stuffed to the brim and...

I meant to include this picture yesterday - These are the light fixtures from the old hotel - thought Steve might be interested in them.  ...

 This geyser in Soda Springs is man made.  It erupts every hour on the hour.  A "stuffed" badger in the lobby of the Geyser H...

1.  I learned that if you get up early (6:15 a.m.) and work hard for a couple of hours in the sewing room, you can accomplish something.  Ho...

At the risk of exposing how little I really learn along the way, and after being chided by Dwight for not sharing my most exciting life, I t...

OK we have waited and waited and waited to see if Ann has ever learned anything since Wednesday (a month ago?).  I check five or six times a...

Wednesday was a busy day and my mind is boggled with all of the news I garnered from each sibling.  Is there a better place to share than on...

For those of you who attended Powell High School, please take a few minutes and read the article and obituary of Keith Bloom, who was outsta...