Well first- well what happened was, they were doing construction in the s-- across the street, and the saw was going and then I was sitting, I was out here on the veranda and I hear "zzzip." And I thought "aha." And then the guys were out looking around, I thought "they blew a fuse in the house." And then people sort-of started coming out on the street, I put the battery radio on to see. And that 's what they say, yeah.

And we went and the water- there was water up to the- that first block from um Yonge to Bocastle, there was water up to the verandas. For some reason. And ah course everybody ah those days, it was before they put storm sewers in, we have storm sewers now.

Like, you hear the crickets, people are out on the veranda chit-chatting

Um well they used to be usually on I-don 't-know- usually at night we would always go to Lisa 's backyard or someone 'd be in the veranda and then just go and talk.

So how- so how would you sleep? So what we did is we slept on a veranda, the back veranda, 'cause it was too hot.

And there was an Old-Age-Home there which really funny because ah the people that were the- the ah old pe-- pensioners and all that were sitting- sitting on the veranda and seeing all these funny people with long hair and they were- I mean, they were almost in shock, you-know. Because they never seen anything like that.

And um they had a- like a veranda affair along one, so you could- you could go there and watch.

And like we had a big veranda and the veranda was all watered and 'course it was cold.

I remember having you-know o-- occasions there where we'd all be on the veranda or-whatever, and then you'd just hear like Dutch jabbering going on, like I wouldn't understand a word of it.

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.

It was a two-room brick schoolhouse. It had a little veranda roof on the front of it.

You've probably seen them with the veranda in the front, big white veranda in the front ah- a lot of houses like that.

Yeah you never went past anybody's veranda without speaking to them type-of-thing and-

And ah in the summer- in the winter months we had a verandah in the front of our house and there was no basement under the verandah so it was

And ah in the summer- in the winter months we had a verandah in the front of our house and there was no basement under the verandah so it was better than a freezer, so all your meat and-everything would be out there and it would freeze in the verandah and that was wonderful. That was our refrigerator for the winter (laughs).

Oh, I could still hear him singing that. And he'd be sitting on the veranda.

And ah we didn't go in for a lot of treats then so his family left a bottle- a big bottle of pop out in the veranda to cool and they forgot it.

So they pulled up to the- they pulled up to the house and the lady was out on the veranda and said, "Lady we're awfully sorry, we ran over your cockerel. We'd like to replace it." She says, "Please yourself, the hen's around the back."

I- meanwhile, I'm on my veranda, and it's gated in. And I'm too small to climb over.

And the- the things ah, on the veranda they were like- I could never put my body through them.