DEER FEED IN EAGLE RIVER....LOCAL PEOPLE FEED THEM SO IT'S A GOOD PLACE TO VIEW THEM UP CLOSE

ENGAGED!  ROGER HELMINEN (MARGIE & BRIAN'S) AND LORETTA MORRIS (BRAD AND RUTHANN)...WEDDING IN APRIL IN COKATO

IF ANYBODY HAS INTERESTING PICS TO POST, E-MAIL THEM TO ME!

OUR RECENT BLIZZARD REALLY DID A NUMBER ON OUR PARKING LOT!
(JUDY ROEPKE'S CAR ON THE RIGHT)

BERTHA AND CAROL J'S CARS....

MY GUYS AT DAVID'S WEDDING
CARL, DAVE, WALT, PETE AND DOUG (REINO MISSING)

EAGLE HARBOR LIGHT HOUSE

KANGAS CREW (EARL ABSENT)
PAUL, COOKIE, JANIE, JERRY, ME

IN THE PIC. WITH PETE IS DON KANGAS AND DON DAAVETTILA

BROTHER JERRY AND JULIE, FROM COPPER HARBOR...NOTE THE SIZE OF THE SNOWBANKS, OUT IN THE BOONDOCKS!

BRUCE, ANTTI HELMINEN AND CHARLIE KANGAS
NINJA'S???

MATT AND MARETTA HALONEN AND SOME OF THE KIDS

MILLIE AND JENNA

SIENNA ANDERSON AND GOOD FRIEND MADDIE TOROLA

OH, OH, LOOK OUT, STANLEY HAS WHEELS!
DARREN HELMINEN WITH STANLEY HELMINEN

MET TESSA JOHNSON AND CAROL BERG AT SWEDETOWN WHEN I WAS SKIING

GRANDMA TINA POYHONEN AND BABY AURORA

A VISIT AT DON DAAVETTILA'S...FRONT..CAROL JURMU, DONNA LARSON, HAZEL JOHNSON
BK:JUDY ROEPKE, JOHN JOHNSON, DON D., DON LARSON,  I TOOK THE PICTURE

THE NAT'L ANTHEM BEING PLAYED AT THE BEGINNING OF CALUMET BBGAME

PRACTICE...GR/SON PAUL #22

JACK ANDERSON READY TO SHARE CANDY WITH DAVE

CASSIE HELMINEN'S BD PARTY (LEFT BACK, IN PINK)
HELMINEN'S AND PIETILA COUSINS

DAN AND HEIDI HELMINEN FAMILY  

LIZA HELMINEN...POSING

GIRLS AT CHURCH...IM NOT SURE WHO THEY ARE, BUT THEY POSED READILY WHEN I TOLD THEM IM GONNA PUT THIS ON MY "NEWSPAPER"...LET ME TAKE A STAB:  POYHONEN, LARSON, LOUKUS, LOUKUS, STUROS.  HOW'S THAT, MOMS??

LETS TAKE A STAB AT THIS PIC FOR NAMES:  LIZZIE TOROLA, TIKKANEN, LOUKUS, HALONEN???

THESE THREE PICS WERE TAKEN IN THE FALL, WITH WALT'S, BRIAN'S AND KALA'S FAMILIES, THEY WALKED ON THE MONK'S TRAIL.  IT WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL, SAID EVEN US OLD LADIES WOULD BE ABLE TO WALK IT....SO WE WILL GIVE IT A STAB WHEN SUMMER COMES.  CHECK OUT THE FANCY BENCH...THERE WERE SEVERAL TO SIT ON, SO WE OLD LADIES CAN REST IF NEED BE.

LOCH NESS MONSTER PEEPING ABOVE THE WATER.

THIS IS THE OLD CHARLES BRIGGS SCHOOL WHERE MANY OF US ATTENDED....WE WERE REMINISCING ABOUT THE TEACHERS (ESPECIALLY MISS GRIERSON) AND THE PRINCIPAL, MISS SANDELIN.  SCHOOL HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY A COMPANY, BUT NOTHING WAS DONE WITH IT, BUT SITS BOARDED UP FOR MANY YEARS.  LOTS OF MEMORIES HERE.

GREG HYRKAS AND MOM CARRIE HYRKAS
GREG WORKS IN INDIANA, IS A CHEM. ENGR. AND IS ENGAGED OF JESSICA.

THE SNOW ON OUR CHURCH IS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD....AS WE WERE SITTING IN BIBLE CLASS WED., WE NOTICED THAT THE SNOW IS WAY PAST THE HALFWAY MARK ON THE WINDOWS BEHIND THE PULPIT.

martin and ina helminen's little sweetheart, lydia
they are living in no. dakota at the present time.

NANCY KIILUNEN AND DAUGHTERS VISITING MY NEXT APT. NEIGHBOR, CAROL JURMU RECENTLY

I DID A "SELFIE" PIC ON THE SWEDETOWN SKI TRAILS TO SHOW THAT WE DO HAVE SUNSHINE UP IN THIS HERE NECK OF THE WOODS SOMETIMES