LEO TOROLA PLINKKUTAING ON HIS GEETAR, A FEW YEARS AGO

MT. BOHEMIA SUNRISE...(thanks, jeff eskola) GREAT PLACE TO SKI AND SNOWBOARD
IN THE COPPER COUNTRY

58 YEARS AGO IN LAC LABELLE...BEFORE TOROLA CAMP WAS BUILT...FAMILY GATHERED  TO CLEAN UP THE LOT.  MUMMU (AILI) TOROLA ON LEFT, CHESTER YLITALO HOLDING A BABY OWL THAT WE FED ALL DAY, PETE WITH WALLY ON HIS LAP...AND A BUNCH OF OTHER GRANDKIDS.....TIME FLIES, DOESN'T IT?

WEDDING OF ROBERT STUROS AND BETH TORMANEN IN MENAHGA, MINN. THIS PAST WEEKEND, FEB., 2019

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THE OLD MENAHGA CHURCH

THE NEW CHURCH....HOW BLESSED TO HAVE A NEW CHURCH WHERE THERE IS ROOM FOR EVERYBODY.  (Thanks Maria sturos for the pics)

ORIANA, JOSIE, ISIS TOROLAS, ME, CADE TOROLA, ANTTI HELMINEN, CALVIN  HELMINEN IN BACK....OUT TO EAT

BIG BLUE EYES... GREAT GR/BABY BAILEY HYRKAS DAUGHTER OF SHANNA AND GLEN

THEM TOLKKINEN SISTERS...TSK, TSK
SUSIE, MUGGA, PAULA

AT TECH VOLLEYBALL GAME...DON DAAVETTILA, DAVE TOROLA,  BOB AND CAROL ASIALA, AND JAY RUOHONEN

ME AND MY BUDDY, ALPHA (ANTTI HELMINEN'S DOG)

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• Wedding of Isis Torola in January, 2019
• Wally and Lynn's daughter...in NoDak... 

                               Bunch of girls in Alaska....top of the world....cant find the names, I got them written down somewhere.....sheeesh, old age!  Click to enlarge...

Wedding Of paul Torola and Abby Bjorn feb. 2, 2019...parents dave and ann torola, and Jennifer and BJ Bjorn

1. 'IF ANYONE HAS SOME INTERESTING PEOPLE PICTURES THAT THEY'D LIKE TO HAVE ME POST ON THIS BLOG, PLEASE EMAIL TO ME...torolaea@gmail.com  (this blog is seen by the people we know, from finland, germany, and all over the USA...I know, cuz they tell me...)

BRIAN HELMINEN WITH HIS DEER LAST FALL

HAPPY 65TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY TO LEO AND ESTHER TOROLA RECENTLY
HOW BLESSED TO HAVE EACH OTHER ALL THESE YEARS

LEO AND ESTHER W GRANDKIDS AT THEIR 65TH PARTY

FOUND THESE PUPPIES ON MY COMPUTER....TAKEN A WHILE BACK
MATT KIILUNEN'S RABBIT HOUNDS

MATT AND HIS FLOCK, ALSO A WHILE BACK...NO MORE CHICKENS, BUT STILL HAS THE HOUNDS

MATT'S TAXIDERMY...YOU'D SWEAR THEY WERE GOING TO CACKLE

A GREAT EVENING WITH BRIAN AND AMY TOROLA LAST SATURDAY

BEING NERDS W THE HELMINEN'S AT CULVER'S LAST FALL....THE WAITRESS GAVE US THE GLASSES

THIS IS IN OUR AGASSI PARK...MYSTERIOUS "STONE HEDGE"...SOME MAN IS MAKING THESE SNOW COLUMNS...US AT PARK AVE. APTS. ARE WATCHING TO SEE WHAT'S GOIING ON.....(THAT IS, IF SOME BRATS QUIT SMASHING SOME OF THEM AFTER THIS MAN'S HARD WORK)

A NEW YEAR HAS BEGUN...2019

CHRISTMAS IN ALASKA...THEY TELL ME THAT THEY STARTED THE ELLEN  AND PETE TOROLA TRADITION..GINGERBREAD HOUSES...GRAHAM CRACKERS, TONS OF CANDY, AND NUKED WHITE CHOCOLATE.....EVEN ALL THE GROWN UPS PARTICIPATED!  YAY! 2018

ELLEN YLITALO IN MENAHGA...VISITED HER THANKSGIVING WEEKEND IN MENAHGA
(WITH her "pillow"

GREATGRAND, GRADY JOHNSON'S BIRTHDAY PARTY...(selena and kurt's)
GRADY IS ON THE RIGHT, FRONT....

GRANDDAUGHTER OF AMY AND TOM JOHNSON...ELLE

AT THE PARTY...ALL THE LADIES

ANOTHER JOHNSON GRANDBABY....NINA

BRITA AND HANS HAAPALA GANG, PLUS ONE GIRLFRIEND...ON THEIR ICE RINK AT HOME
(see, we LIKE SNOW!)

THE KYDS FROM CHURCH ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S  SKATING AT THE COLLISEUM  IN CALUMET
{imagine 1000-ish kids!)  click to enlarge

LENNY TOROLA EATING BREAKFAST (ERK?) CHOCOLATE CHIP PANCAKES, SMOTHERED IN PEANUT BUTTER AND SYRUP...

ME, GRAND/MADDIE TOROLA & DANICA RYYNANEN

PETER TOROLA (DAVE AND ANN'S) PRACTICING HIS PIANO LESSONS

ME AT KEYBOARD, ANTTI TOROLA, BRANNON TOROLA, TREVOR TOROLA AND LOWELL TOROLA, ACTING OUT THE 12 DAYS OF XMAS AT OUR PARTY, WHILE THE REST OF THE GANG SANG...THIS ONE IS "THREE CALLING BIRDS"...LOTS OF LAUGHING!

THIS GAME IS POPULAR WITH EVERYBODY..ELECTRICITY...DAVE IS THE ELECTRIC CHARGER, OR STARTER

MORE SHUFFLING OF KIDS, A FEW MORE ADDED, AND READY TO CHARGE, DAVE

HEAD DOWN, EYES CLOSED, FEEL THE CHARGE!!  TWO TEAMS, ONE ON EACH SIDE...WINNER GRABS THE HAT ON THE CHAIR....

NOTE: ALL PAINTINGS ARE 20% OFF LISTED PRICE AT THIS TIME

22 X 28 WATERCOLOR, MATTED, FRAME AND PLEXIGLASS.
DAISEY BOUQUET $500

12 X 12 ACRYLIC, WRAP CANVAS..HUNTER'S POINT NEAR COPPER HARBOR
$90

22 X 28 WATERCOLOR/ACRYLIC, MATTED, FRAMED WITH PLEXIGLASS
WILD TANSY AND CHICKORY $500

IF YOU WISH TO GET YOUR OWN  MATT & FRAMING, DEDUCT $100...AND 20% OFF BESIDES