But ah (laughs)- no like, Sundays are always that one day that you just want to get out of Beaverton 'cause there's nothing to do, right? All the stores are- ... Pretty well closed and- ... This is basically the only place that's open, right?

And ah- oh jeez there- the Beaverton one-twenty-fifth-festival. That one was pretty cool, it was- ... Yup, they ah- it was the pretty well the same set up as the Canada-Day festival. They had a parade, they had um the vendors, they had a huge barbecue, you-know they'd all kinds of stuff going ...

Speaker: Yeah, so that was really nice to have our grandpa and grandma just down the road from us. ... Interviewer: Did you spend a lot of time there? You were there pretty much? ... Speaker: Well, we'd go down there pretty well. Like if, ah- Speaker 2: It was close enough we could walk down once we got a little bigger.

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 2: Scottish pretty well, I think.Speaker: Yeah, pretty well Scottish.

Well mainly swimming because that was a novelty to us, because we, ah- other than if our dad drove us down to Lake-Symco to go for a swim- ... We didn't get in the water- ... So, that's pretty-well where we all learned how to swim was down at the cottage on Lake-Scugog.

The- a hurricane went through and tore which- and my uncle's farm, which is south of here, the end was pretty well torn down except one end was left standing and they needed somebody to go up to the top and take down the bit that was (inc)- my dad volunteered.

Once a year we decorate the graves. We have service outside like a- they sing hymns and- and whatnot and everybody- you decorate your parents graves, your grandparents graves, decoration day. A lot of- all- pretty well all the cemeteries around do that.

Ah yes, church- church was a- a huge staple, yeah. So Saturday mornings, you did your chores, whatever needed doing um in the way of pulling weeds or-whatever. Saturday afternoon you pretty well had to yourself to play and then Sunday morning was church and um there weren't- there weren't a lot of extra church things when we were growing up.

And then by this time, pretty well by this time they used to come in about ten o'clock from the first hunt and have a beer and then go back out another- maybe 'round a bush or-something 'till dinnertime. So they were coming back in by this time.

I heard that the priests pretty well ran their lives way back. I'm going way back. They'd tell them what to do and when to do it and-everything eh. And some of these guys did too, up to a point. -

Well we h-- he didn't- he didn't read music but he played strictly by ear but he could pretty well get a tune out of anything. Was a great gift.

Interviewer: So you probably spend most of your time outside there? Speaker: We did. We were outside pretty well all summer too. And we used to go tobogganing over on the- ... Over on the riverbank there. We can go tobogganing in the winter. I remember when my younger sister broke her leg over there, ooo.

The girls were always looked nice, the boys I find change more. ... Like the girls stay pretty well the same they were in school, a lot of them. But the boys, oh physically (inc) maybe the boys had a lot of hair and maybe now they're bald and they've got a- a beard (laughs).

But we- we memorized- we memorized math- and they would stand us up, was about twice a week and do oral arithmetic and make you give the right answer. ... And- and spelling was the same. ... And you would ah- you pretty well knew when you stood up which one was going to be up there the longest. ... Wouldn't be me, it would be probably my buddy.

Oh, we never got into very much trouble going to school and back, yeah. Guess the parents had kept it- kept- kept us in hand pretty well.

Interviewer: What kind of things would you do to- to make trouble? Speaker: Oh dear. When we ah, when we got to be in grade eight, and Misses-Donna-Arbour came to teach us in- in September and there was eight of us lads in grade-eight. Well we pretty well took the school over ...

Interviewer: Are we going to talk more still? Speaker: Well, if you want me. I'm pretty well talked out. I think.

Speaker: And she can't walk around. And her lifeline is her telephone. And because I've known her for so long since public-school days- Interviewer: You were friends with her? Speaker: Yeah. Um I said I can't really trot you around 'cause my days of doing that are pretty well gone but I said, "I'm here. If you want to call me."

Anyway, and all o-- pretty well all my family but four of the grandchildren didn't go. The rest of my family all went out there because- and they're also glad they did because it was just phenomenal.

So there's there ah the four-H club which is a province-wide organization that ah for farm youth is a pretty well in every category are farming today.