in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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Because there isn't that much work. ... There's not many jobs available. ... Y-- you'd pretty well have to go some place- ... Bigger cities. |
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Pretty well everyone went up to Kirkland to buy their wedding dresses, several shops there. |
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Interviewer: And ah, was there any particular games that they liked to play? Speaker: Mm, they pretty well used themselves. |
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Mm-hm, yeah it was just the one cow to milk, so it wasn't a big- big thing, but it had to done. Henry pretty well milked the cow, but when he was away- ... Or late coming home from work or working over time or-something- well I milked it. |
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Black spots- I- I have some. ... They're pretty well faded, I got those a few days ago (laughs). ... They make big lumps (laughs). |
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You're on- you're on- on your skates, but and I- I played it pretty well so, when you do something well, you- I think you almost automatically like it (laughs) I-don't-know.- |
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We had the town direct wired, so we go any location pretty well on a Government-Road or pretty well in the core of the downtown core and live feed right back to the sta-- station 'cause we had plug-ins. We owned the cable company. |
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... they all ah- they grew up good too. They- they were ta-- all of them were pretty well sports, music, ah- ... Went to- all went to school, got good jobs and succeeded and did good. |
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I-mean, we had electronic stuff there that dated back to, I-mean, old crank- have you ever see old crank ... Phones- with the big horn and-that. We had those things in the back shelves. Now, we had- we had a little museum in our basement, pretty well, with all the old r-- r-- ret- tube-style cutters that-- records that used to come on a tube, would cut on a circle and that's how you played your records. |
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Speaker I'm not proud of it. ... let's just say I left in bad terms with the teacher. Interviewer: Or you just bumped heads with the teacher. Speaker: Yeah. Kind of like, yeah. Pretty-well, that was it. |
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To do shopping or even, I can remember as a- as a young person, we very seldom ah went into the town. On the farm pretty well all the time so- ... |
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Interviewer: Now were they like ah Damian's parents? Did they come into Toronto and then up or were they- Speaker: Pretty well, I-think. Um, let's see. My h-- my sister has this better than I have. I just have scribbled notes. |
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It's alright for us 'cause you-know, we're settled. We have what we want pretty well here. |
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Interviewer: Were these plays written by the students or did they present themselves? Speaker: They would be plays that ah, were made up. ... And then, teacher would pretty well choose those. |
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They were better in school than I was, so actually my youngest sister I was pretty well out of school by the time she- she started. She may have been just in grade one or two I suppose. |
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And that's where- actually Mothers- ah, my mother-in-law is there, Ester's mother's in The-Manor and that's a l-- local ah, hm, well how would I- how would I describe- it's- it's people that can pretty well take care of themselves like when they can't- can't look after themselves, they have to go to a nursing home, so this is step between giving up their homes and their meals are provided and type-of-thing, laundry's provided- |
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But the rest of time we'd g-- going down to Michigan, Texas is close to South-Powdri-Island and that's- that's in the g-- Gulf-of-Mexico. It's pretty well as far south in Texas you can go. |
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And I feel at home here. And I feel safe here 'cause tis is Kirkland-Lake, I know everybody pretty well. |
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The- oh yeah the other good thing about here is even though some of the land is private around us, you-know, some of the bush are claims- ... But you can pretty well go wherever you like. You-know, you can take a walk right now back- and- i-- if you live in Kirkland-Lake, you can head back through the bush- ... (inc) by Goldthorp or wherever behind McCassa and nobody will bother you. |
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Bus all the time. 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. |
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