Saturday, March 28, 2009

finland

svahns and eskolas in finland

shower

johnson kangas

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

message from pete: baseball

when we were kids in grade school we played ball back of aalto's garage. the two bordering streets were 7th and iroquois. a home run could be placed in clouthier's yard or then in mugford's or richard's yard. we played mostly softball slow pitch but not blooper pitching. we chose up sides using a bat and two fingers or claws were permissible. the lousy players were chosen last . we never had enough gloves to go around and generally we had to wait for honey ham to show up who at times had the only bat. but we never had a catcher's mitt. one day roy mukka figured we should do something about  that so he went door to door pleading poverty and before long after begging for a couple blocks he had enough money and to spare and went to the sports shop (can't remember the name) in calumet and bought the mitt. i don't remember what he did with the left over money. when three outs were accomplished the players who had gloves left them in their field positions  for the opposing team players to use. sometimes we did play hardball in aalto's field. it wasn't uncommon to have a coverless ball which was generously taped to make it hold together. but when we had a newer ball which was starting to have lacing breaks we put it aside and waited for wild bill ellison or crazy bill to come along and toss it to him. he would take it home and relace the ball and on his next trip through would toss the repaired ball back on the field.

seniors

seniors 84 to 70. bob, delores and clyde

shower

erp and taival

white city hotdog roast

Monday, March 23, 2009

message from pete: prune

birthday greetings from prune wickstrom

irene frantti

irene and ellen visiting

white city hotdog roast

white city gang. where me and ma had our first holding hands over 50 yrs ago (jan 1954). walked to end of pier to lighthouse. i think we walked  back too.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

juopperi

juop and his mom

alabama

at rv park in alabama. trim carved by guy from big traverse
jpstorm, leo,aaron,davejuntti,janet,regina,bob

Saturday, March 21, 2009

verna birthday

grammatila's birthday on alabama

Friday, March 20, 2009

shower

folks on steps

jeremy a few years back

we had the same bd

Thursday, March 19, 2009

shower

nancy and carol taivalkoski

white city hotdog roast

walt, lynn and marg

papa birthday mar 18

my g nephew has the same birthday

papa birthday mar 18

appy bd to papa

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

birthday mar 18

ellen painted this for me now that i'm going on 80
lana had a bd

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

white city hotdog roast

our great niece jenna 

shower

koivisto sisters

white city hotdog roast

ace and isis

Monday, March 16, 2009

shower

wesa, loukus

Sunday, March 15, 2009

shower

johnson and tervo

white city hotdog roast

torolas, helminens, tarnowskis and us'ens 50 degrees mar 15 fun.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Monday, March 9, 2009

Birthday boys

Vern Koskela is 85 today. Loren had a birthday a few days back, and they usually celebrate together.Andrea and Helen

Sunday, March 8, 2009

ava with her parents antti and liisa halonen
lana is in her 70's

Thursday, March 5, 2009

catching rays on padre island
pretty soon it will be summer again

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

morning glories w/c by pete
marg's leaded glass sauna window for lac la belle camp

Monday, March 2, 2009

liisi, davin torola's
karg, roger and tom keranen at the farm shack. me and reino hauled the railroad ties from the copper range line which ran thru the property with the farmal a. the shack is one tie x two ties and the joints are cemented to keep out the wind. lenny hill came and cut the door, window and stove pipe hole with a power saw. this place saw lots of use until vandals continuously wrecked it. but now the boys resurrected it and roger made a stove in metal shop for heating. i guess the door is just a makeshift somethingorother for now.
one of ellen's ptngs