We never plan anything like we went to a bar once so we just end up like sitting on the veranda or like going to Chana 's to watch a movie. I watch movies a lot on the weekends, when I 'm not studying.

And then my sister broke her leg and then another time Merlen wanted to go out on the veranda and I didn 't want to so I made up lie.

So like everyday we 'd be on the street all day and like even in the nights, we would sit on the verandas and do nothing. We would make up games. We 'd play house. We 'd play secretary or we 're pretend we were secretaries and type on invisible typewriters.

My veranda, Merlene 's veranda, or Chana 's. No not really. Um sorry I was thirsty. Um no not really like most the places I 've been to it 's just like one or --once or twice like trying new places.

We- as I say, we are always- or seem to be in want of food and-everything-like-that, and my aunt used to get a d-- a grocery order, and I always remember the- the Eaton's driver coming, jumping off the wagon, getting this wooden box, coming, and he put it down on the veranda, my mother would take the stuff out of it, and put it in the hall, and the box, it used to fold up, you-know, cl-- 'cause he could put the- them back in the wagon like you- couldn 't have this wooden box, it was just for delivering the stuff, and always my aunt used to send a- a pound of peanut butter in one of those woo-- cardboard floats.

I guess we just went, yeah we just went over and like sat on her veranda or something and it was pretty funny 'cause everyone else on the verandas were like outside with flashlights and stuff.

Yes. Well I was having a bath on the front veranda in a big wash-tub, that 's the only time we had company, and it was a tractor or truck or something going down the laneway going to the back forty or something. (laughs) And I yelled at Ron and he ran out with a- with a towel for me, but they didn 't come up to the house.

A laundry-tub on the front veranda. But we did have one neighbour, it was a groundhog and we shot him.

Uh yeah well (inc) it was kind-of fun, because you see all the candles on the verandas. It was really cool.

Well first- well what happened was, they were doing construction in the s-- across the street, and the saw was going and then I was sitting, I was out here on the veranda and I hear "zzzip." And I thought "aha." And then the guys were out looking around, I thought "they blew a fuse in the house." And then people sort-of started coming out on the street, I put the battery radio on to see. And that 's what they say, yeah.

And we went and the water- there was water up to the- that first block from um Yonge to Bocastle, there was water up to the verandas. For some reason. And ah course everybody ah those days, it was before they put storm sewers in, we have storm sewers now.

Like, you hear the crickets, people are out on the veranda chit-chatting

Um well they used to be usually on I-don 't-know- usually at night we would always go to Lisa 's backyard or someone 'd be in the veranda and then just go and talk.

So how- so how would you sleep? So what we did is we slept on a veranda, the back veranda, 'cause it was too hot.

And there was an Old-Age-Home there which really funny because ah the people that were the- the ah old pe-- pensioners and all that were sitting- sitting on the veranda and seeing all these funny people with long hair and they were- I mean, they were almost in shock, you-know. Because they never seen anything like that.

And um they had a- like a veranda affair along one, so you could- you could go there and watch.

Of course she could only, one hand at a time. I looked after her. I called her the little waif

That was the idea. Yeah. You-know I was- if you got invited to it you were lucky. And then you could go down to the auditorium where they held the tea dances which were in the afternoons and hopefully somebody would ask you to dance. Stand there like a wallflower.

Longbranch is very nice down by the lake. Had nice big old homes and but ours was a tiny wee one so, it was- but a big piece of property.

That was a hotel band. Like a resident band. But um, and the one little bands because as I say when we were teenagers and went to Huttonville and to Brampton and those dances, they were local bands of people and they- but they were good. They were full eight or ten people. They weren 't little wee ones.