Peter Torola & Maddie (Dave and Ann's)

Jenna & Oriana playing on the mountainous snow hill after their piano lessons

This is what I see out of my window in winter

Lila Tarnowski (Kathy & Steve's)...she was trying to help me play the pedals

on the church organ when I was playing

Kristin (& Steven) & baby Eli Steven Daavettila's baptism recently in Cal. church

"kings of the hill"....boys on a snowbank at church

Ida & Russ Jarvi from Chassell, who are applying to be Calumet residents!

The family of Hugo Johnson asked me to post this on my blog:

Their father Hugo will be celebrating his 100th birthday on Feb. 4

Those of you who wish to send a card, here's the address:

73025 235th St... Dassel, MN 55325

Also remember Ellen Rousu's birthday a few posts before this.

My birthday meal at the Hut, on Jan 21st.....74 yrs ollllldddddd.!!!

Glenn Hyrkas's birthday, a day after mine..25 yrs. old

Leah's dog and cat...meowrr??

Washington services: Hills, Walkers, Martini's, Mikko, Dahl's & Taivalkoski's recently

Lyle and Heather Anderson family

Kiera Johnson (my gr/grdaughter) trying out her skating legs

with my gr/daughter Rosie Torola

Our maintenance man digging our cars out.

They do that for us after a storm.

Judy Roepke's car half buried after the storm

ELLEN ROUSU OF DELANO, MN. WILL BE 90 ON FEB. 4

PLEASE SEND HER A CARD AND "MAKE HER DAY"

ADDRESS IS 290 KINGS POINTE RD.

DELANO, MN 55328

These 3 pics. are my daughter Leah who works in no. dakota, and has a man-type job in Minot.

she works for an excavating company, uses water hoses under great pressure, and a vacume also, cleans off trucks and other jobs. she is full of mud all the time, has layers of clothes on, her pants are so full of oil that they are now waterproof. she has found muscles she didn't know she had. safety glasses, inner clothes, outer clothes, big boots.....she thought she was working alongside a man, and found out it was another woman when they shed the outer clothing. she has found out how to define a woman in all the clothes by the way they stand, they put their hands on their hips.

Bunch of ladies at the Hut recently

Dan & Kate Helppi's littlest one...

Two good "buds"...Luke Frantti & Ethel Eskola

Grace & Bob in Port Isabel waiting to walk across the causeway to So. Padre Island, TX, a yearly thing...pete and I used to do it too.

Three more executives..anderson, jukuri, sturos

Jeremy , Cody, and Greta (Hyrkas) Kinnunen at the baptism recently

(I don't have Missy & Mike's pic.)

The two godfather's, Wayne and Greg Hyrkas

Rick with baptism babies

Great-gram Me, and Grant Lupinski, Cody Kinnunen..baptism

Bunch of girls at church

Grace's birthday lunch in Dec...her brudders (Randell's) and their spouses

Madelyn Torola's birthday in Dec. (Dave & Ann's)

Don D. picked us ladies up, we went to lac la belle and ate at the restaurant there, then went to visit don and gail frantti and judy anderson...a great day and visit (friday)

minus one, added one

Helminen's are now "horsing around"

Darlene, Dingo, Joyce and Charliehorse

The farrier is getting ready to trim "charlie horse's" hoofs...(his real name)

oops...this should be w. the helminen pics...margie just opened her "gift", an angel that we have been gifting each other for a year,now...xmas, birthday, mother's day....going back and forth...getting harder to disguise the package!

Roger on Dingo

Joyce on Dingo

Darlene on Dingo...I told her if he gets ornery, call him Dingbat

Half of the Helminen's on Christmas morning...Martin on the right has reflective clothing on...works good. Roger is in his usual position, guy in black, laying down...

"where's waldo?"....bunch of helminen's on christmas morning, buried in the paper!