Interviewer: Do you remember making maple syrup? Speaker: Oh I remember that very well because it- and it was quite a task. We tapped something like three-hundred trees which was huge for the times because my dad and a hired man tapped all those trees by hand with a brace-and-bit and you put the spile in- Interviewer: Did you help them? Speaker: What- what my brother and I were d-- I have a brother th-- had a brother that was a- a year and a half younger, we would ah, drive the team of horses.

I sat down and I had the reigns in my hands (laughs)- ... Still and I'm like I didn't drop them. The pony kind of just looked at me like what are you doing (laughs)? ... Yeah, pretty wild. But I still get on. I've been bucked off like three times. ... Um, I've been reared up on. I've slipped underneath a horse a couple of months ago. Um, I almost got kicked in the head. This is just like a couple months ago, a couple years ago. This is recent.

But, um, that was another thing he mentioned. And he also mentioned this- probably nobody even knows what it is, but a buckrake. And that was how they brought in the hay. And Patrick said it- Uncle-Sam and dad built the buckrake and it was, um, old truck with kind of tyings out behind it. And then you- well, Sandy used to drive it a lot.

my dad would hitch up the horse and um, we'd have ah, what they call buffalo-robe.

I can remember them blowing the steam out at you you-know just- just- you-know, didn't hurt you you-know it was just- but can you imagine that today? No ah they- some- some bugger would be there tell you were trespassing or-something you-know?

L-- and two of them stayed for two years each. And- you-know like, I don't remember us being such bad little buggers but I guess we were (laughs).

He had a withered arm. I don't know whether he'd injured it or whether he's born that way. But it seemed to bother him. Because he was like a wounded bear. He was a miserable old bugger. So I sat down and I said I want a- I had a- I got all the stuff I needed but I had to get the stuff from him then eh. That ah I got permission to get.

Speaker: Well in the olde-- it was the old days, very few people had cars. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: So if people wanted to go some place, they walked or drove a buggy.

Well you know that's something that I didn't do a lot. I don't think I ever went to town in the horse and buggy. But the team and sleigh, yes. A team and sleigh. But my dad has a car. Now- and 'course it wouldn't run in the wintertime because the road weren't ploughed, okay.

I was just going to say another thing I had here was our milk was delivered to the door, unpasteurized and we're still living and we're eighty. But we had this old lady, she came in a horse-and-buggy and she brought the milk in w-- in glass bottles, didn't she?

Speaker: Ah, no I don't think I remember that. Interviewer: No. Speaker: I remember going to school with a- on a horse and buggy.

...and then, and she was expecting uncle Johnny, went down the str-- trains station in Beaverton and there wasn't even a telegraph, a nothing, she went down in a horse-and-buggy and John-Wallace came home in a pine box.

Anyway, and ah, they sat sic-- thirteen people down at the table for dinner that night and then they got on the horse-and-buggies and all came down to meet the train coming up from the Chicago-World's-Fair with all the men on it and the horses.

Yeah. You won't see one in Beaverton. I've only seen like two buggies before in Beaverton.

Speaker: People are just horrified when I tell them this. Everybody smoked on the buses including the driver (laughs). Interviewer: Oh my God! Speaker: And he used to bum lights off us and we bum lights off him, oh my gosh.

He was eaten in his bed, the- the polar got in the bunk house. They said the guard was having a sleep. They used to mount guards because these things would come around at night. They knew there were people in these places and break in and- and ah then when they found him, he was eating the thing and- eating the employee.

And the Indians had been staying there. There the- we get there, we got there in time for dinner back to York-- from Yorktown. So we ate and that. And they said "Well you better leave your clothes and-that- bags and-that in here. We're cleaning up the bunk house 'cause there's ah lice and everything else in there." I thought "What?" God, like the house got cleaned out. But this freaking bunkhouse with Indians all in it. I ain't nothing against Indians. I had lots of friends that were Indians from Rama ...

He was a pilot and- and- and made it through and he'd just come home and was taking over when we got there (laughs), the three of us. And the Indians had been working there, and they had a little bunkhouse that'd sleep three. And the Indians had been staying there. There the- we get there, we got there in time for dinner back to York-- from Yorktown. So we ate and that. And they said "Well you better leave your clothes and-that- bags and-that in here. We're cleaning up the bunk house 'cause there's ah lice and everything else in there." I thought "What?" God, like the house got cleaned out. But this freaking bunkhouse with Indians all in it.

He was a pilot and- and- and made it through and he'd just come home and was taking over when we got there (laughs), the three of us. And the Indians had been working there, and they had a little bunkhouse that'd sleep three. And the Indians had been staying there. There the- we get there, we got there in time for dinner back to York-- from Yorktown. So we ate and that. And they said "Well you better leave your clothes and-that- bags and-that in here. We're cleaning up the bunk house 'cause there's ah lice and everything else in there." I thought "What?" God, like the house got cleaned out. But this freaking bunkhouse with Indians all in it.

Yeah, sh-- she- her name is ah, a- Bern. I'm not going to say her last name but um, yeah she's whimpy, um we saw her come in and we're like "Oh my gosh." Like she's really tall and kind of butch looking. She's a girl.