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I think there was fifteen different drums and each group played drums while the other group danced type-thing. |
Tag used when giving a sometimes imprecise description |
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Like we must have went to native type-things up there. |
Tag used when giving a sometimes imprecise description |
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There's something beneath me th-- what I'm thinking that's present, and I can catch myself before you-know it spins out-of-control type-thing. |
Tag used when giving a sometimes imprecise description |
An open portico or light roofed gallery extending along the front (and occas. other sides) of a dwelling or other building, freq. having a front of lattice-work, and erected chiefly as a protection or shelter from the sun or rain.
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And then um the porch that we just had redone it actually just used to be a- like a cement veranda but now we've all enclosed it in and heated it and everything. |
An open portico or light roofed gallery extending along the front (and occas. other sides) of a dwelling or other building. |
To adapt or prepare (something) for operation or use in cold weather.
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Um oh I think it has decreased but it- it's because- I think it's because of um like the kids have got married and moved away, they're moving back and um I think- and a lot of- of people from the city are moving in like that have had cottages. They've winterized them and- yeah. |
Prepared for winter |
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And a lot of times they won. Well yo-- ah- Mrs.-Thomson was an excellent teacher and so you had- she made sure that you done it right. But it pays off. |
"you did it" |
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...and the cost of living is just so high now that- the- the average person right now, your generation ah yous could not survive unless two of yous are working. There's no way that yous could go out and buy a house now and one person pay for it. There's just no possible way, you couldn't do it. Where in my generation, a lot of us did it. |
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Absolutely, absolutely. My little grandsons are- are ah yes. Yeah. But I know I- like I keep saying to my kids. I know it's down the road for yous. 'Cause like Holly has the three now that are- you can almost say they're tweens right. They're border line of- of teenagers and ah you get a lot of attitude starting from them, I'm like, "Oh boy yous don't know what you're in for." And like I say, it's probably even worse now-a-days 'cause there's a lot more to get into. |
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Speaker: When I had Jordan here on the weekend she's like ah, "Who do you like having the most, Nanny?" I'm like, "Jordan yous are all my grandchildren" Interviewer: That's a dangerous question. Speaker: "And I can't like one more than the other." And "I know but who do you like having the most?" So I said, "Baby Henry." Like the bab-- the newest baby I thought, "I'm safe saying that because who could deny me having the baby right, whom I do love." I do- the younger they are the better I like them. As they get older it's like, "Okay yous need to be in school full-time." |
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That was another reason I wanted to come back, to be closer to my family because my sister lives here in Lindsay too and my parents weren't too far away like in Minden like and they- yous come down here at that time like and-that. |
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