Well ah- while I'd be busy in the garden or-something, one day she took Kira for a walk. And they w-- we had log fences along and ah sh-- they went down the laneway and aunt-Melissa get tired and so she said to Kira, "Well we just sit in the fence here," so they sat on the log fence and Ernest, he was down across on the other property.

Go out to Ompah, go that direction, then there's a very sharp corner goes to the left you go down this little steep hill. Laneway goes in to the right ... you need a name here. Hudson-Bay-Company? What was that company?

He's got five hydro poles going in the laneway up here and about the third hydro pole in, this cluster of bears all show up. So then he's figured it out. When he put in his hydro lane, eh, he pushed all the brush into a pile.

Then once the car was empty it had to take all that and pile all in the crossers on skids to the side of the laneway that you're in. A lot of handling, a lot of work, a lot of physical labour. But it was just the way it was back then. Sixties, seventies.

Interviewer: And you know, I have a question for you. There's a long laneway along most of these farms. Is there a reason why the laneway is- are so long coming from the highway? Speaker 1: (Laughs) I don't know how to answer that. I don't- I don't know. Interviewer: You don't know, okay, I often wondered about that. Speaker 2: The laneway here is you have to be three-hundred feet from the centre mark of the highway before you can come to the house.

Yeah. ah, one finger- she ran over me with her skate and cut my finger. Um, I learned to ride a bike. She sat me on the top of- of our neighbour's laneway, which had a huge hill with a gate at the bottom. She sat me on my bike at the top and sent me down the hill. Well, you know where I ended up. (laughs)

No, the cheese was generally made at cheese factories and my mom's parents lived at ah, Union-Hall. And at the end of their, yeah, the end of their ah, laneway, there was a cheese factory. When we were kids, we'd go down there every day and get some fresh curd.

Speaker: Yeah. But I remember- when I remembered I don't know what they did before that, but, yeah. Interviewer 1: So they'd pull up to the- Speaker: Right in. Interviewer 1: Laneway. Interviewer 2: That's interesting. Speaker: Yeah, they drive in the laneway and- Interviewer 2: Pots and pans, even. Interviewer 1: So the store came to you. Speaker: Yeah. So they- yeah, and they'd- yeah. Interviewer 1: Do you remember your mom or dad buying things from the salesmen?

Speaker: Did you ever read his? Interviewer: No. Speaker: Clint died a couple of years ago but he was- too bad you hadn't been able to talk to him. He just lived up at the top of the hill. Well, they had a long laneway. Well, we'd get to the top of the hill, Ryans are coming out, so we'd wait there. By the time we get to school there'd be about fourteen of us.

Now, the big thing for us was that the back of the truck- you could stand on the back of the truck, right? And, ah, then going- swinging to the- to the right- ah, to the left into our laneway, there would be kind of a feeling of an amusement park ride, right? So, you'd be swinging and bumping along and then there were some kids, the other- younger kids would be, ah, put in the back of the truck box and then there would be- be even little ones that would be up in the cab.

That's where our playhouse was, was out in this kind of a little bunch of trees that was across the laneway so we had flowers in our playhouse the next year.

Speaker: But ah, we used to bike up the hill, ah, from our farm ah there was- a slow grade of a hill and then a higher one, and then you could coast all the way back down to- Interviewer: Mm. That's good. Speaker: Our laneway, yeah. As they say, it was uphill both ways.