Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

I just talked with Dwight about his latest plan to write Western Romance novels that are about 3-4 pages long. After suggesting the...

A rare time when we all, except Steve, were in Penrose.  This picture was taken at Burchell's.  Louise, we did have a good time reg...

 This happy picture was taken last summer when Louise and Cheryl came to Preston for some shared Show 'n Tell to awe and amaze each ot...

I found an ad for this magazine and decided to try it. What fun stuff. It's  full of stories about long ago. So many of them sound lik...

We were just a couple of little kids 50 years ago. There were sure a lot of things for us to learn. I guess 50 years isn't much when ...

Another cherished classic of Stephen Michael taken by Dwight.  The background looks like some area we might be for a picnic.  What a charm...

Elizabeth's five children are mixed in here between a spouses and a couple of children.  You can tell that laughter rules when they ar...

I deleted a couple of posts from yesterday, because after reading them I thought they sounded a little "snarky". This is an attemp...

Robert Petersen, Shannon, and Mother in her backyard. Mother's pose tells so much about her.  In-law children were included in he...

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...