But nevertheless, they had a lot in common. And I remember Henry-Oath taking dad down to- down to- was it Buffalo or some place.

Speaker: So you got to figure out what brake, how it broke, and how to fix it so a lot of nights I spent underneath the tractor fixing it, so I'd have it ready the next day to work 'cause we never- very seldom sent anything to- Interviewer: To be fixed. Speaker: Someplace to be- it fixed. That's why I was sort of like a mechanic. Everything (laughs) you name it. A vet, mechanic.

So I just have to worry about finding a way to ah- to grow food on the go or ah- or, you-know, like find some place to hunt or whatever, you-know, make five-hundred pounds of beef jerky (laughs). You-know, sort-of thing, you-know, nomadic living.

Yeah and then ah dad got a job working up at (inc) here. And he got a job some place working nightshift. Must have got in at another one of the other mines first.

Yeah and he did everything over there pretty well. If anything, he mixed it- mixed the stuff and (inc) sent Danny to ah the States some place on a fir-- course on this- and doing these kind of things. And he never did it. Chris still did it. Something went wrong with the machinery, he fixed it. Nothing he can't turn his hand to.

She's a great girl. 'Course she had grown up kids but they're all family and he- they got kids and he's forever running with that car some place with somebody.

Oh yeah, they were, yeah. I think we have a picture of them some place but I don't know right now where it is, I forget.

That was just after that bomb exploded for the Thatcher, the Prime-minister of England, remember she was out at some place and the bomb exploded. (laughs) (inc) "Welcome to the (inc)-suite. This was the remains of it." (laughs)

Interviewer: Where did you get a sarong? Speaker: Wh-- v-- I-don't-know. Ah, I- it could- could have been um, a towel or someth-- ... What- no what- no, it wasn't a towel. I don't know. ... But anyway, they came up with one someplace. Interviewer: Made it out of something. That's funny.

... when my kids were growing up, I used to take them a lot on picnics and ah, sleigh-riding, and-things-like-that. ... Um, we um- there was hills. Back- back here someplace. And we would ah, take them.

Speaker: They got a job for the summer. ... Quite a few of them too, they went on an adventure, they signed up to be down in the war-plants for the summer. Interviewer: What was that? Speaker: Saint-Catherines, or I think Sherbrook-Quebec and some places where one of the ones where they're manufacturing war-materials.

She was kind-of outstanding. She's in- she's in Ottawa-U or-some-place eh? Or Carlton whatever, Ottawa.

I remember a while ago, they were- I think it was inner-city Detroit, or-some-place-like-that, where they were trying to make ebonics like a language and this was that sort of inner-city way of talking.

So, it must- it must be down under my house here some place because, you-know, if you ta-- you take a- the- it's usually about a seventeen percent angle, ... That your ramp runs. ... A-- and so if it's seventeen percent they must be some place under the house. (laughs)

... we'd sit and have a picnic and it's so easy to get to places like that you-know? And yet if you want to go out of town, it's not that far North-Bay or-someplace- ... So I like that type-of-thing and I remember when I was taking Carlota for tennis lessons, it was- well it was one of the Clor's.

Interviewer: They should send you at least a picture of it. Speaker: I have a picture some place. ... If I could dig it out, I would but I don't know just- (laughs)

Yeah, I'm- I'm really happy here and ah (coughs) their- I- I couldn't stand to live in Toronto. I'm like- North-Bay, I could- I could handle some place about maybe up to a hundred-thousand but after that, I get- it's too many people. It's too much, too much confusion and ah I like my flowers and my garden.

... some people just don't have that- th-- they just aren't good skaters. And I was one of them. And sometimes my secret d-- wish is to go someplace and learn how to skate and not have people look at me trying to skate.

... it's so much easier to- like people are friendly in Kirkland. ... Like you-know, you just feel comfortable no matter where you go. ... Um, like some places you go to, out of town, there's some pretty stuck-up people. ... I find Kirkland-Lake's not like that.

You-know I'd go down for holidays. Like for a week or two to some place. Like I went down in two-thousand-five. Was actually the first time I actually left the ca-- the country.