Yeah but I- I- I been in the basement of the Royal-York in one of their restaurants and the waitresses come up to me and says, "Is there anything yous would like?"

Speaker 1: 'Cause she made sure we were good writ-- now Ron-Brown and I, we went- what was it for, it was something to do with- Speaker 2: Ah, s-- some kind-of course yous took together.

Speaker 1: Soon as you were of age, you were gone. Yeah. Speaker 2: And they let yous out early, 'cause you're farmers too.

Yeah. We went up to her party, Lachlan and I were invited. And it was full of people like her friends but she said "All I wanted to do was to get the two of yous together, I wanted to talk to Lachlan.

And they went to take off. And I says "Just a minute, you guys. This yard was clean when yous come in, clean it up now." The teacher said "Yes," she said "You can't do that. Pick it up.

And they were out in the field with it. And they were walking around and around in a circle. And I shouted at them. I said "Yous get that bull back into that barn.

Interviewer: How do you call chickens? Speaker: Yous can probably make a noise for that too. Interviewer: Yeah, do you remember it?

Oh yeah, yeah. And I can remember- (laughs) I can remember this when I- maybe it was one of you girls or some of yous anyway. And they- they took grandma's recipe and they took it home and made it and- and ah, it was all- main wrote out I thought they- all- everything they needed and the phone rang

...I'd get home maybe one-o'clock in the morning and I was up to have you kids breakfast and-everything ready for yous to go to school and- so- so I could sleep.

Well I can see the sun and the moon just as well I-think as any of yous. But I can't see that paper lying there. I can see the paper but I can't see the (inc) (coughs).

Interviewer: Did you also not have the refrigeration in- Speaker 1: No. No. Speaker 2: No. No. Speaker 1: But we did- we had an icehouse, which yous probably had- Speaker 2: No. Speaker 1: Although I can't remember- (Speaker 3) No. Never did. Speaker 2: Never had an icehouse, never.

Speaker: The way you learned to speak. Um when I remember- Mom and Aunt-Jill used to say "yous". Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: A plural for you.

The trick though is the sound because there's always an airplane or a car or-something zinging around so that's been a little bit of a challenge. So anyway, Captain-Meyers, he fought during the revolution, of-course the Americans won and ah the loyalists had to get out.

So then at the end when we were all saying bye, I- I said bye to her, I gave her a hug. Then I was like, "I hope married life gets better." (Laughs) Everybody's like, "zing!" (Laughs)

Speaker: So he picked me up and he looked so nice. Like usually he just wears like some stupid c-- graphic brand tee-shirt and like- or like his ah- Interviewer: Jeans. Speaker: Jeans and- Interviewer: Running-shoes. Speaker: Running-shoes and then like a hoodie, always. All the time, with like some sort of hel-- brand-name hat. So then when he picked me up, he's wearing his nice wool jacket. Like ah, his dress jacket and then like, um a dress- sort-of-dressy zippie, and then he wore like a white collared tee-shirt- or like white collared long-sleeve shirt. And then he wore like his new jeans and his Lacoste shoes. And then he was wearing cologne too and he gelled his hair up all nice. So then, I was like, "oh wow, he really dressed up."

And it's just like being in a new place, I guess is sort-of exciting. And like, it's a new environment and stuff. But it's still like, school is school! But at least, hopefully I'll be more concentrated. 'Cause you know me and my zoning out. I'm scared. I'm just going-to be like in class, every day just "(humming)." Hopefully it will work out.

Yeah for band- we stay there for the whole day so we get to have a dinner break and we go to the mall and buy our dinners there. And so she was telling me some story and I completely zoned out- like- like- I think I sort-of blacked out but not really like I just- I 've never had that before- it was really weird. I couldn 't concentrate on what she was saying blah-blah-blah.

Yeah, the attention span's not there. ... Like grade-six to grade-eight, I was on Ritalin but I was like a zombie when I was on that shit. ... Like totally zoned out, come home- ... Or was it I lost my appetite. I wouldn't eat.