Interviewer: Wow. So you were in Beaverton every weekend then. Speaker: Yeah, pretty well.

You had the building and you'd store ice from Lake-Simcoe and they'd put- they'd put them in these- these sheds and- with saw dust and it would keep- it would keep in that saw dust all summer pretty well.

Speaker 2: Because ah, she was a really good synchronized swimmer, she wa-- they- well, she- they thought that she should be in Olympic synchronized swimmer and I just didn't have a time to take her to the- to all the practices. Speaker: (inc) pretty well go to Toronto.

It's just ah- it's relaxed, you-know? You can pretty well do what you want, when you want, when you're not working obviously.

... well a few of my friends, right? We were all- we just love the country lifestyle, right? You-know, having a relaxed lifestyle and you-know, doing pretty well what you want, when you want, right?

But ah (laughs)- no like, Sundays are always that one day that you just want to get out of Beaverton 'cause there's nothing to do, right? All the stores are- ... Pretty well closed and- ... This is basically the only place that's open, right?

And ah- oh jeez there- the Beaverton one-twenty-fifth-festival. That one was pretty cool, it was- ... Yup, they ah- it was the pretty well the same set up as the Canada-Day festival. They had a parade, they had um the vendors, they had a huge barbecue, you-know they'd all kinds of stuff going ...

Speaker: Yeah, so that was really nice to have our grandpa and grandma just down the road from us. ... Interviewer: Did you spend a lot of time there? You were there pretty much? ... Speaker: Well, we'd go down there pretty well. Like if, ah- Speaker 2: It was close enough we could walk down once we got a little bigger.

Well mainly swimming because that was a novelty to us, because we, ah- other than if our dad drove us down to Lake-Symco to go for a swim- ... We didn't get in the water- ... So, that's pretty-well where we all learned how to swim was down at the cottage on Lake-Scugog.

The- a hurricane went through and tore which- and my uncle's farm, which is south of here, the end was pretty well torn down except one end was left standing and they needed somebody to go up to the top and take down the bit that was (inc)- my dad volunteered.

Once a year we decorate the graves. We have service outside like a- they sing hymns and- and whatnot and everybody- you decorate your parents graves, your grandparents graves, decoration day. A lot of- all- pretty well all the cemeteries around do that.

And then by this time, pretty well by this time they used to come in about ten o'clock from the first hunt and have a beer and then go back out another- maybe 'round a bush or-something 'till dinnertime. So they were coming back in by this time.

I heard that the priests pretty well ran their lives way back. I'm going way back. They'd tell them what to do and when to do it and-everything eh. And some of these guys did too, up to a point. -

Well we h-- he didn't- he didn't read music but he played strictly by ear but he could pretty well get a tune out of anything. Was a great gift.

Interviewer: So you probably spend most of your time outside there? Speaker: We did. We were outside pretty well all summer too. And we used to go tobogganing over on the- ... Over on the riverbank there. We can go tobogganing in the winter. I remember when my younger sister broke her leg over there, ooo.

The girls were always looked nice, the boys I find change more. ... Like the girls stay pretty well the same they were in school, a lot of them. But the boys, oh physically (inc) maybe the boys had a lot of hair and maybe now they're bald and they've got a- a beard (laughs).

Interviewer: Are we going to talk more still? Speaker: Well, if you want me. I'm pretty well talked out. I think.

Speaker: And she can't walk around. And her lifeline is her telephone. And because I've known her for so long since public-school days- Interviewer: You were friends with her? Speaker: Yeah. Um I said I can't really trot you around 'cause my days of doing that are pretty well gone but I said, "I'm here. If you want to call me."

Anyway, and all o-- pretty well all my family but four of the grandchildren didn't go. The rest of my family all went out there because- and they're also glad they did because it was just phenomenal.

So there's there ah the four-H club which is a province-wide organization that ah for farm youth is a pretty well in every category are farming today.