And, ah, I took a stroke when I was fifty-one. So it kind of changed my way of thinking, you-know? ... I was paralysed pretty well on my left side.

Interviewer: Do you remember him watching your game? Speaker: Ah, he- pretty well always he would- they would- whether it was ah, when you don't live in town, you have to drive there.

Interviewer: Yeah. So they were kind of independent in their house? Speaker: Pretty well. Interviewer: Did they cook their own meals and-everything? Speaker: Mm-hm. Mm-hm.

Interviewer: T-- tell us a bit about, ah, that too, ah- Interviewer 2: Yeah, the ancestors. ... Yeah, like, was it Scots or Irish or-? Speaker: Scottish pretty well, I think. Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty well Scottish.

Yeah, we skidded all our logs with horses pretty well until the latter years and then we had a- a different kind of machine.

Well, generally at that time pretty well it was country and western, but it was usual-- ah, it was- the- the strength- the strongest station I can remember is that Wheeling West Virginia.

Well, in Matt's opinion there was no First Nations people here, no at that time but, um- but Perth, you see, was pretty well established, I think, by that time. ... And so, they were trying to push people farther up this way.

Sometimes we ate before we done the chores, but- and ah, my father, ah, if he were home, we might have supper before, but he didn't- chores wasn't his thing. ... And he could plan it to be home when everything was pretty well done.

Interviewer: That was the story your parents told you, but it- but it's true babies were always born at home. Speaker: Pretty well- we were all born at home except Ben.

Porridge was always for breakfast. ... With maple syrup and milk. 'Course we had our own syrup, our own milk, our own pretty-well-everything. We even made our own butter.

And she had three daughters, and they had pretty well all left home and there was this extra bedroom, so- ... Yeah, rented the little bedroom, and had a desk to do my homework at and-

Speaker: It was pretty well- Interviewer: Finished by then. Speaker: Yeah. ... The big dairies were taking over.

Ah, they'd live with one of the local homes, eh? ... There was one lady in Elphin that pretty well looked after each teacher as they came and so-

We have certainly had to do some ah upkeep as we go along because an older place requires, you-know, to fix this and that and pretty well done, I've done- Now, I've done a lot of talking, you'd better ask me some questions of you-

She took a university subject pretty well every year in the summer. It's a hard way to do it but she had three children and that's the way she did it. And she stopped teaching when she was fifty-six.

... it's a wonderful lake. It's too bad that it's closed sometimes in the summer for pollution. When I was a teenager I went down pretty well every night and we would dove off the pier and there was no sign of pollution in those days 'cause that's sixty years ago but ah, this happens now ...

Um, loved riding a bike, lived on a bike, this was- this was before there was any school-buses and if- when we lived up by the United-Church you ah, it was good going to school 'cause it's downhill pretty well all the way, you can get to school pretty quick, but going home for lunch you had to pedal like the devil and you usually- took you almost oh- ten to fifteen minutes to get there, no matter how hard you tried ...

Interviewer: What was some of the issues that you had to deal with? Speaker: Well pretty well the same as they're dealing with these days. Same things, roads and schools and ... taxpayers. Trying to look after them.

Interviewer: Yeah, 'cause some people I 'member, when we had the historic society, said it'd be a day trip- Speaker: Pretty well, yeah.

... ah, in the- in the seventies we had a great-big snow-storm in April that everybody all- ... Fourth, fifth, and sixth of nineteen-seventy-five, all of Ontario was pretty-well snowed-in. It was just a spring storm and- and the schools were closed, I remember that.