Gingerbread houses

roger

can you spot the foreigner?

finished product.

after the fun of gingerbread making we went to the community room and sang lots of christmas carols. it was fun.

More Gingerbread carpenters

roger and carl

ev, leo and josie

lowell

papa with dave and peter and carl with kiera

paul and lizzie

Gingerbread houses

stanley with bunny, antti and sven

martin helping antti with joyce, trevor and isis

cade and lenny

rosy with selina and curt

rowenna and julia

pam, darlene, nina

Pete's Prognosis

dec. 5: saw the oncology doctor today and she is starting a three month chemo program at laurium hospital dec 10. it's 3 hours on the 10th, 1 1/2 hours a week later and off the third week. this is repeated for 3 months.

Sunday photos

pete keranen (plutch) lives in mpls area. he is a tech grad and grew up with our neighborhood kids

craig kangas, tom sturos and matt halonen

Sunday photos

grace niemela, barb granroth, betty berg

Message from Pete

back in the late 40's we had a 40 of land with a haybarn next to bill kero's place on the gas plant road. it was about two miles from home. we kept a couple cows which we milked in the summer months in a stable made of poles and a thatched roof. we didn't have much water on the land so we carried what we needed from home for washing utters and for the cows to drink. our first cow was kukka. in the winter i remember taking the manure sled down the unplowed gas plant road, through the hard packed snow drifts loaded with manure from our home barn on pewabic street where i grew up. the barn was in the backyard. then after spreading the small load of manure on the field we would either put loose hay on the sled or then quite huge bales of hay made with a hand baler. the horse would run all the way home. i can still hear the squeak of the runners on the cold snow and the squeak of the harness.