Um, and then my- my mom's parents owned a cottage on Kinesis-Lake which was- it's about a two-hour drive. It's passed Halliburton, a little ways there. Um, and so we both had- Kinesis generally we'd go to for like a week or-something, when we're all had vacation time.

I ah I like to ah keep up with current events. I'm an expert on politics in my own version. Ah- world affairs. But I ah, I- I like to read. I read newspapers and magazines and ah a few books.

Then I moved on down for ah- ah another store for twelve dollars a week and then I went across the corner to a competitor for eighteen dollars a week. I was big-time.

No, other people drove. I didn't have my first car until I was nineteen, so I had to like bum rides off everyone.

Not really you-know might go to Lakefield on a Wednesday night or-something. See the stores used to be open on Wednesday nights years ago. Well you'd go to Lakefield and bum around you-know as you called it.

My mom and dad chummed with them but as soon as we were old enough to their kids, I think both sides stopped seeing each other.

Um yeah there wasn't ah um we didn't really chum together when we were young.

And have to go from tree to tree trim it- it off alone, clean out the cistern and get down in there and get down in the well and we put our own septic system in so we had to dig some of that by hand.

Speaker: No we just had a well. Interviewer: A well. Speaker: And cistern. And the cistern was off the kitchen, like under the kitchen floor. So you'd use water out of that.

Speaker: And cistern. And the cistern was off the kitchen, like under the kitchen floor. So you'd use water out of that. And usually the- the well was just for drinking water. So you just- you'd use the cistern water for your baths and-stuff. So it was just basic- basically cistern water was just run off from their- their roof. In other cases yeah. Interviewer: And what would you use for dishes? Or laundry? Would you use the cistern water for that or? Speaker: Yeah I- yeah it'd be cistern water yeah. Yeah and it was okay.

Interviewer: They got filled up eh? Speaker: Yeah they really did. Because every lesson is t-- pertaining to the Bible it's all fine-and-dandy, I believe in it, but not that much.

Well the thing is I- the only reason I'd shoot a deer is if Ted didn't happen to get on you-know? And they like venison they just love the- eat- he's eaten venison every time he comes in here "I had venison last night. We got some dandy's last year ho ho ho just big lads."

Interviewer: Yeah that's great, but he wasn't gonna stop for you? Speaker: No I don't think he woulda if Roy hadn't ah stepped up to him. Interviewer: But you got your photo that's good. Speaker: Oh I got some dandies. I got- listen I got a pile of books out there on Hank-Snow that deep. Yeah, yeah. Interviewer: So, you got to meet him and ah have you- now what are some- have you met any other kind of celebrities or famous people?

But anymore that doesn't necessarily the- I-mean it- it still exists and hopefully we've instilled it in- in our kids, but there's a lot out there that don't or haven't and ah you-know the- you just go down street and some of the things that you- you see how- how people dress and how they talk out in- I-mean cursing and...

Because every lesson is t-- pertaining to the Bible it's all fine-and-dandy, I believe in it, but not that much.

Interviewer: And- but Buckhorn was pretty safe? Speaker: Yeah it wasn't too bad, it was- it was hard to get someone to come and pick you up for- for to do something but ah it wasn't ah- it wasn't made fun of.

Yeah that used to be the bowling alley and the gas bar, and we had part of that, and then we moved from that over to the barn by the feed-mill.

Yeah right from M-and-M down there was three- three houses there and then there was a bowling alley on the corner. And the little gas bar there. Super-Gas. And um and then across from there where Dixie-Lee is and that whole lot where the bowling alley is used to be the boat works.

Oh golly cold, and these uncles of Brenda’s that had the butcher shop in Highway here.

Speaker: Yeah I don't remember exactly when we met because we were in school together from ah I was in grade-seven and he was in grade-eight, so we went all through school together and probably became a couple when I was in grade twelve and he was in grade thirteen. Interviewer: And so how did that happen? Speaker: We went on a trip together as a group, the whole um grade twelve and thirteen went on a skri- ski trip to Quebec-City. Interviewer: Oh that's pretty romantic. Speaker: Yeah. Never been back since.