... they'd go visiting. Go visit some of mom's sisters or brothers some place or come up to grandpa-Ward's, that was- that always a nice trip up there.

... Adam was the horse person so he'd always- usually every year he'd raise a- a colt. So you'd have to go see that wherever it would be- be out the pasture some place. And then, ah, uncle-Brent, he was more of a- what would you call it, bush person or?

... that was his Sunday outing to go o-- he'd know where there was an apple tree some place and then be- he'd have a pail with him, he'd go pick apples.

... we come home from town one day and looked down and the front of the bee box was just moving with bees. ... Yeah, that was a swarm had come from some place and they- within about ten minutes there wasn't a bee to be seen on the box, they all just moved in and were all set to stay then.

Speaker 2: And you made your own ice cream. Speaker: It was a treat. Usually on Christmas, yeah. So they'd- they'd chip ice from some place. Wouldn't they?

Speaker: Lisa fell and she got burnt when she was about three years old and, um, I don't remember how they- they- it was in the wintertime. Because they had to bring the doctor. ... I understood dad had to go by horse and sleigh. ... And meet him some place.

My studio up there is lined with paintings, I have to hang them someplace.

They said- Old Don they said his wife would have to go and get him out of the gutter. He'd be laying- they'd throw him out of some place, he'd be dead drunk.

Interviewer: Wow, that's fanta-- so was that one of the original farms from the- Speaker: Uh, no the uh, the land grant which I have someplace was in eighteen-forty from Queen Victoria. Interviewer: Eighteen-forty wow.

So if we were going someplace and doing something or doing something I- I would have to try and get it- let me comb her hair and brush at these curls (laughs) that were tight (laughs). That was fine we did it.

But somebody said, "Don't go there with all your grandchildren. It's three-fifty for a single scoop." "(Gasps) I'll be taking them someplace else where you at least get two scoops for three-fifty (laughs)."

Well you see, there was no such thing as lawn-mowers. ... You know, it was a novelty to see a lawn-mower some place.

... we had a pretty good time. Right up until, oh about the second week of October or some place. And she left. And she left, went elsewhere.

The time is so long. ... There's nothing really to do when you go to someplace like, eh? Even when I go to my daughter's there, eh? Now- and you're so glad to get home, you hate to leave, but you're so glad to leave. Because you're used to your own bed-

Interviewer: So did you learn how to drive? Speaker: No. ... Interviewer: Yeah. Do you wish you did? Speaker: Ah in a way yeah, in a way no. Because now if I want to get someplace, well there's the home support you can get, eh? ... Yes so you can always just get somebody like, you-know?

So even when- excuse me, even when my, um, children were born, I would take my grandmother for a ride, and we would go out from here to Combermere and then take the old Barry's-Bay road back, stop some place for an icecream-cone or some treat, you-know. So she loved to just get out and see the countryside, see the changes. I mean, those were roads that she would have travelled, by horse and buggy. Those were roads that she would have walked.

So we may- we may have an outage. Um, we have a generator now that if we're going to be out for longer than, say, eight hours, or if we need to be someplace that we need to be showering, or if we're concerned about our food then, not being able to keep it from spoiling, then we'll run the generator.

That was our summer holiday. We'd go to Perth for one day. ... And, we'd go in there and dad would park the twenty-nine Durant, up near Bain's there some place on a side street, and ah he'd go and do his shopping or whatever he had to do, and we would kind of be on our own, but we'd be expected to be back at that car by such a time, and here we were, country bumpkins running ...

And in nineteen-forty-one or two in there someplace, ah I was five years old so it had to be forty-one, I started school in the Moss-School which was a mile north of our place.

He wanted us to be successful and so we have our little patch of carrots and- and-whatever. And we had our own little bush and there be some rocky knoll in a field someplace that wasn't any good for fields and just a rocky island in a field, and each of us would kind of mark off our little bush.