Speaker: Always in the summer. That's when you made your First-Communion. Interviewer: Oh, okay. Speaker: Yeah because that time you were only taught the Our-Father in the school. There wasn't any catechism. Interviewer: Oh, okay.

Speaker: So we had to go to church here maybe for six weeks to get catechism. Interviewer: Oh, yeah. Speaker: For our First-Communion. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And then for Confirmation when you were older you went again. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And you got some more co-- catechism. But that time you had to be able to say your Our-Father, your Hail-Mary, a- an act of contrition. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Like the priests made sure you said it.

But I-don't-know, our school's- our school was pretty cool, like the teachers are- are pretty- are pretty- chill, and they don't- they don't really- they don't really give us too much trouble.

I-don't-know, we just- we just kind of like, chirp each other, just joking around and-stuff.

Yeah, and it's- I find it, like, ah- it's- I find it funny, like, you'll be lining up to- on the- like, to kind-of come out where- and there's fans like, all around you, and everyone will be chirping you, and like, "You suck!" And-stuff-like-that.

I was getting pissed at one guy in Saginaw, 'cause one guy on our team got in a fight and got, ah, like, kind-of like knocked out by the guy on Saginaw, and he was chirping him and chirping him, and I felt like, just like, sticking him in the face.

E-- ah chitting. You take them out about a month before you're going to plant them, and you put them in bright light, not sunlight, and you let them- i-- i-- if they were in- in dark, they would be a foot high, and because they're in bright light, all they're doing- they're sprouting but staying very squat, very small. And when you plant them outside, like the first of June I'll plant them outside, and they will grow immediately because they're- all the want is that moisture in the ground and it'll grow.

In one year. Like s-- the high-school was just chucka.

And, um then we use the ah a conibear which is ah a- a smaller trap. Basically we've got different sizes and we're…

For- different species have different traps. And ah all humane traps. It's a conibear that catches them by the head- body, it's a body grip and trap.

But we loved it. We'd eat and literally just conk out, you-know, and sleep like a baby, you-know, life was good.

We had a cook-stove in the kitchen and then a box-stove in one of the other rooms that was more for heat.

One time, ah, two of us stayed in the camp one night. The bear wanted to- be- get in the cookery. So, um, the door was- was there and then there was a two-by-four like that, eh?

Out there? Well, it was a camp, you-know, and he, ah- it w-- they had the cookery or the- where they had the- you-know, like a- c-- it wasn't a cafeteria, but it was a- a, big hall where the p-- men would come in to eat their meals, and he'd- he'd cook all these meals not on electric stove, it was on a wood stove.

You- but once you became Parish-priest, well, you got more involved in doing things in the parish to make it more meaningful, like decorating, and, ah- you-know, with kids, the kids for the creche, you-know, and bringing them up.

To bring up the- the- the- the- the figures for- you-know, for the- the creche, eh? The creche, eh? And I says, "You-know," I says, "No," so I says, "An Indian community," but, ah- but I says- and I says, "The- the infant should look like a- like an Indian."

The creche, you-know, and-so-forth, ah- they kep-- they can keep it for years, even when they grow up, to put on their own tree later on, you-know.

But no, it's- it's, ah- it's, ah- you-know, you get a lot of de-- even outside, now I- we decorate outside, you-know, as well, around the- the front of the church and around the rectory, and then we have a creche outside too, as well, so- but ah, yeah.

But n-- now, cripes you could do that and he won't go.

Mm-hm but I mean again, we used to have work horses, we used to have the old cutters where we'd harness them up and sleigh ride in the winter with them.