... I can remember is how my mom when she put it all on the table, how she had cooked it to the browning part of it, that's what I went by so I knew that it wasn't burnt and I knew that it wasn't raw. So I just pretty well went by memory. And that's where I basically learned a lot of stuff is by memory, I remember the way she did it so I just- she just passed it on to me, she didn't even realize.

My older brothers and my dad pretty-well took care of the dairy end of the farm, and I took care of the lighter end.

Like your dad pretty well did the l-- the final- shoeing of anybody that was shoeing horses.

iAnd my dad and, ah- and- and his brother had farms side by side, which (clears throat) my uncles- which would be my uncle now, his farm- his farm was the, ah- the original Farrington farm from pretty well back to the charter.

Interviewer: But the reason you de-horn them? Why would you de-horn them? Speaker: Oh, oh- ah, y-- you pretty well had to have cattle de-horned that were dairy cattle just for them to get in and out of the stanchion as well as to keep one from hurting the other. ... And, ah, whereas today the beef cattle seem to get along (laughs) a little better ...

Interviewer: What kind of meetings- were there- were there, like, farm association meetings? Ah- Speaker: Oh, pretty well everybody- ... Was on the same, ah, page, you-know? ... Political stuff was- I would say was pretty well left out. ... 'Cause all through them days, the whole country was blue. ... It never changed. And, ah, in them days they didn't believe it could ever change or would ever change 'cause why?

Back in them days when the creek just ran, nobody did no-- it was- the odd beaver dam showed up. The water used to pretty well pile up and then it would break- it would go around the corner of the beaver dam and then the beavers would be really busy and then somebody would trap the beaver and sell the pelt 'cause in them days they were worth something.

Cut wood. Fall the tree and skid it to the landing and land it back and pile it up. Pretty well all hand work but you did it all with horses.

Speaker: Fixing fences (inc). That- I was doing that after, pretty well I ah sold out. Interviewer: So when did you retire? Or have you retired?

In- in like grade-nine, and- and we're- sor-- and when we were in elementary school, we would go there for like, our end-of-the-year field trip pretty well every year. ... Just go to- I-don't-know, few museums, or-something.

... if I phone, say a government agency, and I need some forms or-something, they'll say, "Well, just go to our website," like everything nowadays is so Web- Web-based, that you pretty well have to have access to it. And a lot of the areas here, we don't even have it in the outlying areas.

Interviewer: So would the whole family go out or- Speaker: Pretty well, yeah. Interviewer: You didn't- were- did you guys go church first then, or were you not particularly religious?

Interviewer: So what would you do to kill time until you could swim again. Speaker: Oh well, then a-- after we ate it was pretty well time to come back home.

And as I said, ah, I grew up on the farm and we had, ah, cattle but we never used beef. Beef was something that was only sold for, um, money. And, ah, our milk was the same thing. We grew- all- pretty well all of us grew up, ah- sure there was milk and certain times we could have milk but most of the time we could- we didn't have it because mom was selling the milk for money ...

Interviewer: Do you remember any of the biggest fights that you had with your siblings? Speaker: Oh yeah, that would be- that would be quite- quite occasional. We were fighting about, ah- pretty well about anything. Ah, especially like, ah, ah, stuff from the garden, eh? Like, ah, if we happened to snitch some, ah, ah, cucumbers or- or carrots, eh?

... we didn't have, ah- like, our high school at that time didn't teach computers, you-know, when she was in school. So everything was self-taught, you-know? ... So I- I was glad anyway. ... So I guess that's- that's- that's pr-- pretty well everything I have to tell you on this-

Speaker 2: You wouldn't really know who is all coming. 'Cause, you-know, he- they're invited but they didn't say yes or no. Speaker: Yeah. Whether or not they're coming. ... But I imagine then you'd invite pretty well the whole town. Speaker 2: Well all the relatives. Whoever was a relation- ... Unless you cut out the cousins.