I think we had better crops in. I know years ago, dad was putting in a crop he'd have it pretty well started by now you-know? ... But now you can't get on the land until May sometimes.

We worked ahead, and coming on pretty well in the evening. And, ah, I took an idea of me own. He was black as- his face was black, you-know, and all (inc), looked terrible.

(laughs) Well now... ah they- they count nine months you-see and quite often they go a week maybe over their time, sometimes two. And we have to be ready for them if they're going to come in around a h-- you know pretty well.

Well, here- ah they have an Irish name, most of them. ... Peter and ah names like that you-know. For the- you can tell pretty well by the names but the younger fry is getting away from all that kind of s-- different altogether.

Bin- bin scotch, you-know my mother binned scotch, she- she had everything pretty well figured out.

Interview: Was there a place to put the pigs food? Speaker: Yes, you always kept it in some corner pretty well covered by itself so that if a cow or-anything got loose or if one of the animals got loose, it would't get into the hash, they love hash.

... he would get his two horses and the uh, wagon and he would uh, stay on the ground with his fork and lift the hay onto the wagon and mother would uh- well the horses pretty well went themselves, you just uh, put the reins onto the uh, um, wagon someplace and uh, mother would- would drive, plus when my father would put the hay onto the wagon, mother would tramp it down to see that she could- and place it- ...

He used to have stone fences, yes. He'd have uh- he'd have stone fences, but uh, my father uh- I think it must have been pretty well fenced when my father bought it because I can't recall of him working too much with the fences.

But if you can sit and listen to him, you're bound to learn something from him. Whether you, ah, agree with him or not. And if you know him well enough you can bang it out pretty well, together.

Interviewer 1: What government was that? Who was prime-minister then? ... Interviewer 2: It was always Liberal. The- Canada's always been Liberal. Speaker: Pretty-well yeah. Mm-hm.

Interviewer: Well it seems to me that a lot of people had organs in those days. Did they? Speaker: Well they all had organs pretty-well yeah.

Oh, I-see. Oh yeah. Well, you'd know her pretty well then.

Ah one of those sheeps that was up there. And in the- well, (inc) some time out of there, and they had her all eat. The ribs just sticking up there, the snow and the head, everything- eat all pretty well.

He'd never make one move without a fellow out there with ah him. Him still pretty- pretty well (inc) I was glad I got back to him when (inc)

Yeah. There are lot of Armenian people. There are a lot of Hungarian people. These are pretty well professional people. Some of them have gone from their country to the- then you-know when the Communism went across they um, ran ahead of it. And there was lots of stories to tell about how hard it was to get from country to country.

But the hotels had their own bands. I 've forgotten who played there now. I think it was Mark- Kenny from out west, from Banff. And um, so they pretty well played there. That was a hotel band. Like a resident band.

... the other hotels we were staying in were only twenty-dollars a night each. And um, the boat ride there, instead of taking the slow ferry, they wanted to take the high-speed ferry which was twice as much and all that kind of stuff. And I was- I was pretty well out of money at that point.

Yeah. My dad does my taxes. I- I don 't know, applying for a bursary doesn 't- doesn 't take that much. It 's like, you-know, five minute application for pretty well guaranteed five-hundred dollars. So, I 'm hoping I 'll get some financial aid this year, 'cause I have like a twenty-five-thousand dollar line of credit right now.

Interviewer: Is that, when you went to- for those nine-months, is that the bulk of your travelling- experience or-? Speaker: Pretty well yeah. I, I, I guess it 's one of those things got out of my system. I wouldn 't mind going again.

... at Sears, the department store, doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things, um systems analysis and-stuff-like-that. They were putting in appointed-sales-systems and- things-like-that. So he was commuting down to well Simpson's at that time, um ... so while we were in that area, pretty well exclusively that 's what he did, he was with Simpson's for a long, long time.