Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

When we woke up this morning the radio was telling us that anyone traveling east out of Salt Lake City towards Park City should watch for th...

 One of my favorites from days of yore - written in Mother's hand.  Judy always had a happy, optimistic outlook - and was full of n...

I love it when Laura is on spring break and has computer time. Check out the link below for something really neat. Some of you may have alre...

Now, I read in the online pages of the PT that the "old" Powell High School is being torn down.  I remember in the early 1970'...

OK, this one has been rattling around in my brain (or little gray cells, as Poirot calls them) long enough.  So here it is: This is radio ...

Maybe this might be something that Dwight had in mind with his last blog post. From September of 1980, I have a letter from him of which I...

As of March 2014, we six Blood siblings are still around, meaning in mortality.  From oldest to youngest, we are Louise, Dwight, Elizabeth, ...

Dwight, don't know how else to let you know that the lilacs lend themselves so well to this repeating design along the sides, and I love...

This story by Ann needed to be brought to light, so here it is.  I hope you agree! Dwight's post also suggests we talk about what went...

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 ...