Interviewer: And you know, I have a question for you. There's a long laneway along most of these farms. Is there a reason why the laneway is- are so long coming from the highway? Speaker 1: (Laughs) I don't know how to answer that. I don't- I don't know. Interviewer: You don't know, okay, I often wondered about that. Speaker 2: The laneway here is you have to be three-hundred feet from the centre mark of the highway before you can come to the house.

Yeah. ah, one finger- she ran over me with her skate and cut my finger. Um, I learned to ride a bike. She sat me on the top of- of our neighbour's laneway, which had a huge hill with a gate at the bottom. She sat me on my bike at the top and sent me down the hill. Well, you know where I ended up. (laughs)

No, the cheese was generally made at cheese factories and my mom's parents lived at ah, Union-Hall. And at the end of their, yeah, the end of their ah, laneway, there was a cheese factory. When we were kids, we'd go down there every day and get some fresh curd.

Speaker: Yeah. But I remember- when I remembered I don't know what they did before that, but, yeah. Interviewer 1: So they'd pull up to the- Speaker: Right in. Interviewer 1: Laneway. Interviewer 2: That's interesting. Speaker: Yeah, they drive in the laneway and- Interviewer 2: Pots and pans, even. Interviewer 1: So the store came to you. Speaker: Yeah. So they- yeah, and they'd- yeah. Interviewer 1: Do you remember your mom or dad buying things from the salesmen?

Speaker: Did you ever read his? Interviewer: No. Speaker: Clint died a couple of years ago but he was- too bad you hadn't been able to talk to him. He just lived up at the top of the hill. Well, they had a long laneway. Well, we'd get to the top of the hill, Ryans are coming out, so we'd wait there. By the time we get to school there'd be about fourteen of us.

Now, the big thing for us was that the back of the truck- you could stand on the back of the truck, right? And, ah, then going- swinging to the- to the right- ah, to the left into our laneway, there would be kind of a feeling of an amusement park ride, right? So, you'd be swinging and bumping along and then there were some kids, the other- younger kids would be, ah, put in the back of the truck box and then there would be- be even little ones that would be up in the cab.

Well um both my parents ah worked so I was probably considered one of the first latch-key kids when I was old enough but ah my- went to my grandmother's and ah my parents dropped me off there in the morning and stayed at my grandparents' and then when I was old enough to go to school, again walked to school ah G-L-Comba which is now tore down, which used to be across from the- the high-school.

When I first started there were two to a desk. Like, you shared the- there was a little inkwell and you shared that between two students and the- the latter years- we actually- they come out with different desks and we got a desk apiece and-

Might have in the latter years taken a bicycle but most times it was get on the old walking.

And then one other time, dad was working up at- well we were both working up at- at my cousins barn and there was a- a lean to in the south side and so we were- it must have been in the- in the- well it was probably in the fall.

Oh, mercy, no. (Laughs) I certain-- she tried to show her sister, that's the one I was talking about that had two boys that you taught. Or leastly, they were in school. And ah, she tried to show her sister how to do it and Cathy just put her arms up in the air, oh she wouldn't do that.

But we've a nice time. But there's- and- last night I was at- the home support have this ah, ah, supper every- once a month. O-- at the legion. And ah, they provide a very nice supper and they always have some entertainment. So I was at it.

Interviewer: Lawn-bowling? Speaker: Lawn-bowling. That's it. Yeah. ... Yeah a-- and th-- in the winter they have ah, they do it in legion, in the upstairs.

... he was an undertaker and he looked after most of the pi-- the- the- for the veterans to go to England. Well, it ended up that he didn't need the tickets so he brought it to the legion one day and give it to Earl for the two of us like a ticket for each one of us. So anyway, we left and we went to England.

Speaker 2: We- we were at a dance down the street here, Monday night. Speaker: Supper at the legion? Speaker 2: Yeah.

And the dog was lying there too so when- when I came through she just let out for God knows where.

And if he went home, they'd phone his dad and mother. He got another licking for not behaving at school.

He'd be sitting in there in the pouring rain and the water just running down his neck 'cause the roof was totally done. There's no log barn and it was completely done. But by the time I got to about maybe less than eight years old, he put a ch-- ah ah piece on the end of the barn and he put a nice (inc) of it. And they put a good harsh stable in it. That

Wife's been cooking supper for us so we better take that on too. Not everywhere we get to snack to eat but we- we get offered, we take it. So we goes to the house, walk into the house ain't a long piece to the house. Pretty nice log house, old old log house but it was a pretty nice one. And then the right-hand side going to the barn- or to the house, was a whole row of buildings along here

So he goes to the house and it's an old log house with a summer kitchen on the side wood, eh? Like another addition thing.