Then, an hour after that the gun guy disappeared and things was back to normal type-thing.

So it's kind-of made sense but it was a lot of inventory type-thing.

Great big porridge (inc) type-thing dish with them.

So he wasn't too crazy about stopping in and playing a neighbourly act (laughs) type-thing, eh?

I paid the guys, paid them all off and what-not, give them cash under the table type-thing to keep them going.

Instead of walking all the way from a mile back through the bush type-thing (inc) land too all the way back home inside of the house, put the Border-Collie dog on them back here and leave them alone.

Eh, they're eight, nine pound birds. Only two and a half months old type-thing.

Yeah, they were up to six, milk the cow. Was one cow could feed thirty calves type-thing over gestation.

Go way down there and clip two sheep. It's an o-- it's a museum type-thing. Antique museum thing?

Ah, and I think it was all done by horse and buggy type-thing, like, yeah, yeah.

Yes, with a hay fork, ah, with a hand hay fork type-thing, yeah.

It was a barrel type-thing and it wasn't a pounding one, it was a- it was going back and forth like that.

That's right. Um, ah, and my dad would- still had this feederline (sp) school bus and- and then he tapped into the bigger bus type-thing.

And, ah- and we were able to have a television and, ah- but the radio w-- was just battery radio, it was type-thing but, ah- but more modern ones than we had before, but yes by that time we had a, ah- a generating unit and that's, ah, just, ah, something there.

Mm-hm, and that used to be our- our December craft type-thing.

And ah, Terry and his mother were sitting on the veranda there, and Dad went to turn in the laneway.

So we were staying there after the wake, we were talking to them, and Terry's sitting on the veranda. Terry shouts down to his sister, he says "W-- you better get rid of that corpse right away, 'cause-" (laughing) he says "You can smell it out here on the veranda."

We love it up there, it's ah- and we, ah, put a veranda around it, eh, where we could sit in there if it's, ah, raining or something eh, and barbecue on it.

And then, they cut the soap into pieces like that and one year, maybe I shouldn't tell this, but my aunt came and they put the soap on the veranda to dry overnight and somebody came in the night and stole it. And there was fresh snow on the ground and they tracked that right to the place.

We did very occasionally in the summer um o-- my sister and I used to get out of the bedroom window onto the ah roof over the veranda.