Interviewer: So how did you do your- wash your clothes. That must have been a real- Speaker 2: Big boiler on the kitchen stove there. ... Speaker: And anyway, a lot of the farm women, she had a s-- what they call a- a summer kitchen. Okay, and then- and then in the wintertime, Monday was generally wash day, dependant of course. Anyway if it's wash day, you put a fire on out in the back kitchen and

Speaker: This was the main house and this- well this was before- this was the summer kitchens they called it here. ... Interviewer: I see. Now with the summer kitchen, what was that? Speaker: Well they moved out there in the summertime, and moved back into the big house in the wintertime years ago.

Speaker 2: But we always did have chores that had to be done. Speaker: Like the dishes. (laughs) Interviewer: Yeah. (laughs) Speaker 2: Yes, the dishes. (laughs) Interviewer: Yeah, that's a lot. Speaker: But all we had was the supper dishes. Mom always kept the other dishes all done up. Like, there'd just be the supper dishes.

My father worked out at Donrobin-farm. And ah he would give my mother two dollars a week for groceries which was nothing. And ah one night she asked him to stay for supper, he'd say, "(Sigh) I'm going out to the farm, I get better food out there." He was not a nice man from what I understand but I- that's all I know of him.

... I mean there are people in- down at Cobsy's-Gardens, I know you have to convince some of the people that- you-know they think because they're not paying their own way, that somebody pays for it, so you're going to get two- two pieces of pie for supper. If- you got what two pieces, I can have two.

Her mother is still living and she's ninety-two and she lives in a house in Manilla. We're taking her our tonight for supper 'cause she was ninety-two yesterday. So I- I've had a great life ah.

... I remember dad buying fish at the door from some men that I knew and he knew and ah, every winter they'd come knocking on the door about supper-time and they had white fish and herring and some trout but ah, mother didn't like the trout too well so we- and I didn't. White fish and herring were really nice fish.

And then was usually a roast for supper on a Sunday night. And then there was leftovers Monday and maybe Tuesday. And then that was baloney and wieners and sausages after that. Until next Sunday when you got a decent meal again, or a good meal or a good feed. There was never any shortage of food.

Interviewer: So what did you guys do for fun? Speaker: Fun? After supper, I'd go hunting groundhogs.

Um, ah, and then New-Year's we'd have a big New-Year's supper at my ah, aunt and uncle's.

So we got back to the inn and had poached salmon or something like that for supper and it was really good. And Ethan was with us. Ethan-MacDougall.

Speaker: Took the train every day. W-- Trai- well there was lots of trains going back and forth. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: So they could- they would be down there and- in time to get to school in the morning and- and they'd be back here you-know by after supper. Interviewer: There were a lot of trains.

Speaker: We talked on the phone a little bit. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And then ah and when I- I said well we'll- we'll go out for supper. And we went to the Admiral-Inn didn't we?

Um, I have certainly seen a lot of changes in- in lifestyle. Um technology is taking over, and, ah, when we were on the farm, we always had meals as breakfast, dinner, and supper, because you worked your breakfast off, you needed a big dinner, and you worked your dinner off and you had your big supper, and today it's breakfast, lunch and dinner-

... so there's a-- a lot of grain and ah, uncle-Gregor said, "Well why don't you just stay in the granary and just kind of keep, keep it shovelled back" and-so-on, so that was fine. But by the time they were ready to go in for supper, ah, I was sick, all the dust. ... So my dad said, "Well just sit on the front lawn incase your stomach turns" and-so-on.

... and then he ah went to the motors, he was working at the motors. They come home this night and had supper and he said he wasn't feeling very good and all of a sudden, he just toppled over and he was gone. He had a heart attack.

So he was telling me this one day and I said "Would you fix ours up like that." And he said "Sure, I'll stop over some night after supper." So he had all the parts, he come over and in about an hour we had her working. And it was- it wasn't so bad. There were only about fifty pounds instead of seventy or-so.

But, but I remember they were really thick back in my grandfather's time. I remember when he was saying they were thrashing or-something one time. They had a bunch of men in there anyways, and they were in eating dinner or supper. And he said there were about a dozen or fifteen of them, and that there's ah still- well no they took the fence row out when the- my son rented it.

Cousins, yeah, yeah. We- we used to consider an all day drive then like you-know you were up early in the morning and had a picnic on the way (laughs) you got there in time for supper (laughs).

We'd always get- Saturday in the winter, we always had fresh white fish for supper. That was sort of a- an old standby in the winter. It was a- 'cause there was a- a Mister-Handy-Store in town, you could always buy white-fish and in there.