...but anyway, the water started to come down and right across the road there, there was a house with a veranda on it that set well just as close to the street as that to the sidewalk. And they got on the veranda railing, standing up there and a big chunk of ice came down there and hit that and smashed it down so then what did they do?

...and he would come up and see her and then he would do gown and sit with Shirley outside in the summer time in that veranda. Interviewer: The veranda isn't there anymore? Speaker: No, the front veranda that they'd sit out there on the steps there. They sat out in front there.

Interviewer: Yeah. A roofed-in area. Speaker: Porch? Veranda? Interviewer: Okay. You're happy with either word? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. What happens if it's at- if it's smaller- if it's at the back door? If- Speaker: A stoop. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Yeah. Speaker: That's what I have outside door. Interviewer: Yeah. So what's the difference between a stoop and a porch or a veranda? Speaker: Well, stoop are just big enough to shake your rug on. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Ah, does it have a- Speaker: Tip the garbage can on. Interviewer: Does it have a roof? Speaker: Could or couldn't. Mine doesn't. Interviewer: It doesn't matter whether it has a roof, it's just the size then that's the discriminating point.

Some of them, they- they, ah- that was what you call- you used to call the veranda.

You-know, where I lived you could go out and sit on the veranda and, you-know, you could- you- nature was all around you, you-know

Speaker: And then I had a back room that we used for sewing room. So I had all kinds of- and I had a lovely veranda that I could go out and sit on. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: That's what I find here. I never get out anywhere, like- like, it, ah- I- at home- if I was at home I'd be able to go and sit on the veranda.

Yes, well we have a- of later years, we had a veranda here. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: This- this is a veranda here. We built it in the summer.

Interviewer: What did you call the um- this- Speaker: The veranda? Interviewer: Little open space out front. No yours is closed in.

Speaker: But th-- I use the one at the back door here, where I built that veranda.

She was washing a lot because the only thing she had was a big tub and the board, the scrubbing board and she would uh, possibly one day she would do the white clothes and uh, she would always soak them out on the back uh, there's a little veranda, just uh, on the back of the summer kitchen which led into the cellar there. There's a little veranda there and she would always have her tub and uh, one day she would do the white clothing and she would soak them for a while and then she would take the scrub board and sometimes we would help her.

Yeah by the time you got starting up the hill and get up the veranda, those last two or three steps up the veranda was pretty tough.

We never plan anything like we went to a bar once so we just end up like sitting on the veranda or like going to Chana 's to watch a movie. I watch movies a lot on the weekends, when I 'm not studying.

And then my sister broke her leg and then another time Merlen wanted to go out on the veranda and I didn 't want to so I made up lie.

So like everyday we 'd be on the street all day and like even in the nights, we would sit on the verandas and do nothing. We would make up games. We 'd play house. We 'd play secretary or we 're pretend we were secretaries and type on invisible typewriters.

My veranda, Merlene 's veranda, or Chana 's. No not really. Um sorry I was thirsty. Um no not really like most the places I 've been to it 's just like one or --once or twice like trying new places.

We- as I say, we are always- or seem to be in want of food and-everything-like-that, and my aunt used to get a d-- a grocery order, and I always remember the- the Eaton's driver coming, jumping off the wagon, getting this wooden box, coming, and he put it down on the veranda, my mother would take the stuff out of it, and put it in the hall, and the box, it used to fold up, you-know, cl-- 'cause he could put the- them back in the wagon like you- couldn 't have this wooden box, it was just for delivering the stuff, and always my aunt used to send a- a pound of peanut butter in one of those woo-- cardboard floats.

I guess we just went, yeah we just went over and like sat on her veranda or something and it was pretty funny 'cause everyone else on the verandas were like outside with flashlights and stuff.

Yes. Well I was having a bath on the front veranda in a big wash-tub, that 's the only time we had company, and it was a tractor or truck or something going down the laneway going to the back forty or something. (laughs) And I yelled at Ron and he ran out with a- with a towel for me, but they didn 't come up to the house.

A laundry-tub on the front veranda. But we did have one neighbour, it was a groundhog and we shot him.

Uh yeah well (inc) it was kind-of fun, because you see all the candles on the verandas. It was really cool.