Used to walk out there and golly you could just hear them hissing eh?

011> Or you could wade out, you could wade down through the snow and get on it you-know? And then when summer came, we- we'd sometimes- that's the school I went to. Um- isn't that the Wilberforce-school? Interviewer: Wil-- Wilberforce-Consolidated-Continuation-School. Speaker: Yup, went right up to grade-thirteen at one time. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: I went to ten there. And then I was part of the- the ah f-- but I was going into grade-eleven. I was fortunate- I was the youngest in my family. My sister had come over here in grade-eleven and twelve and boarded to

My sister had come over here in grade-eleven and twelve and boarded to finish her eleven and twelve and then she went to Lindsey for grade-thirteen.

Interviewer: So what have you- so you finished high-school and then where did you go to teacher's college then? Speaker: It was the last year, they called it normal-school and I went to Peterborough and ah boarded there for the year. If you had grade-thirteen, like your full c-- full year, you went one year to- to normal-school. And that was the year they changed their mind and started c-- the next year it was called teacher's-college. Fifty-two, fifty-three was the last year it was called normal-school.

So I asked my husband if I could go back to grade-thirteen and go get- become a teacher. So- he decided he would too. So we both came up here- back up to high-school. We were the first married couple to be accepted. 'Cause you had to get special permission from the school board.

... the straw that would come from- i-- if they were in the straw mow, they would be filthy. Ah, and then there'd be somebody bagging the oats, I-guess or putting them into the granary or-something.

I have become a hunter. You-know, I never was but and I kept grousing about the deer eating my vegetables. And somebody said, "Well you should become a hunter." And that was always in our family tradition, to um- you put up your own meat whether it was your- from y-- these- do you know the book um, um "Omnivore's Dilemma"?

Interviewer: Can you explain to me what the mow is? Speaker: Well it's the upper part of the barn. You walk into the barn floor w-- and there's a- a mow on each side that you mile the hay. Before we had ma-- ah, bails, there was a hay fork rope, ah, a hay fork. We still have it up in the barn. They bring it in in a wagon, loose and they'd stick these big forks and grab i-- big piece of hay and then the- they'd have the horses hitched and somehow or the other

they pull it up with a sling and then i-- there's a track in there and it goes a long the track and it goes along the track and you can trip it with a rope and drop it wherever you want in the mow. Sometimes they used a hay fork for that, but quite often they used these slings.

I run the tractor and- and ah- Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: Yeah so I went down there for part of the summer just for ah farm experience, I guess. Interviewer: Square bails or- Speaker: No just loose hay. Interviewer: Stoots. Speaker: Loose. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: You- you just used um a hay fork and load it onto the wagon and hauled it in and- and ah piled it up into the- they had a sling that would bring it up and then go over it and then drop it.

Um, I- maybe a little bit. I'd like to say w-- like "hick" if that makes sense (laughs). Like just um, some of the things that we say just may be a little different. I don't- I don't know if I can think of anything but I don't really notice a d-- (inc) I don't really notice a difference actually now that...

And so that was a more of a- more of the Canadian accent, um- yeah like um- there- there definitely is, for sure, like there's that- you don't want to say hick accent, but there's that- that small-town kind-of- more like the south we have that mo-- like the south just different,

Um there was like the artsy-weirdo-kids, which was me and a lot of our friends and the jock sort of kids which kind of melded in with the sort of like hick, backwoods, country kids and- there's all sorts of them, but there was- I don't-know we all knew each other cause we all grew up together for so long that you kind of cross paths...

Interviewer: How would you get to the- to the end of the road if the snow was deep? Gosh. Speaker: Well you hoofed it waded in the wooden skis. I skied quite a bit.

Speaker: We'd be all nice and cuddly warm and you hear the horses going along and- and hear the sleigh bells ringing. It was- yeah cold but- but we were warm. Interviewer: What did- what did they wrap you in? Horse blankets or bear skins- Speaker: Yes, oh yeah, no horse blankets yeah horse- Interviewer: Somebody tells me the smell of a horse blanket is a real nice smell. Speaker: It is a nice smell. And- well it's got a real horsey smell. And of course horses smell anyway. And that's an-- thats an-- that's the thing. With the smell and with the- the sounds- oh wonderful, yes.

And um, one thing I do remember is if my dad happened to be home and- and it was a cold day or it was a stormy day, he'd come to school the horses and sleighs and pick us up and cover us up with horth- blankets- and horse blankets- Interviewer: Oh really? Speaker: Had a r-- a smell that you remember- not a bad smell but a smell that you remember you-know?

Speaker 2: Down on the lower landing and we were cutting firewood and for whatever reason, I turned it off, I turned of the motors and so we- we could hear him up the hill. Speaker: W-- well how do you mean you hear them moving or howling or- Speaker 2: Howling. Speaker: Howling. Howling? In the day time? Speaker 2: Yeah, it was yipping or-something.

'Cause she had got her first deer license too. ... Like a lot of- like what you're not used to. There's a lot of local girls that hunt. ... (inc) hunt camps. ... And part of the hunt camps- ... A lot of them hunt. ... And it's okay. It's- ... Part of life.

I have a really good hunting story. ... Well um, my dad let me go to- to his hunting camp to hunt deer. So I was with him and we're up on a hill and we look down, and we see a deer. So he gets ready, he shoots, he shoots.

Near um New-Year's-Eve um, we've been to this hunting camp for two years and um the first year it was in- it was twenty-ten, it was t-- it was coming to twenty-eleven. And that was a fun a party we stayed up all night and then-