Interviewer: What's a separator? Speaker: That's separating the cream- Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: From the milk. Interviewer 2: Oh. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: And then, it had to be put in a cooler. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: And way back then, we had what you called a root house. Interviewer 2: Oh. Speaker: You've probably never heard of things today- Interviewer 2: I haven't, no- Interviewer: Is that were you like- Speaker: No, it ah- like ah- ah, mound, a big mound- like a little frame belt- Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: And like a mound of earth over it.

Speaker: We had garden. We had a raspberry patch and- well back then you grew all your food on the gar-- Interviewer: Yeah. Interviewer 2: Mm-hm. Speaker: Or vegetables 'cause you- and back in this root house I spoke about- Interviewer 2: Yeah? Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Well that's where we keep our vegetables, keep them fresh and- Interviewer 2: Oh- Interviewer: Oh- so being kids, I'm sure you guys raided the raspberry bush.

Interviewer: So you're dancing at the same time? Speaker: No. No I'd be standing at the front. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: (inc) call. Yeah. But then I'd dance when they put a round dance on, or a sq-- something, I'd dance then. I loved to square-dance too. Oh I love to square-dance. Interviewer: Do you go square-dancing now? Speaker: No. We've quit- we quit since- for- we went f- I'd say about five-years or so we've quit.

Sometimes two nights a week and line-dancing, Ester's more into line-dancing th-- than I am, but I tried my luck at it again this sh-- winter. Ah, the winter were over in Florida, we took a- ah, what do they call it, a Cud-round-dance type-of-thing where you're told what steps to- to go and you're in a circle-

But- but- but we- we enjoyed it. And we went to dances at school for a while, just ah round-dance, like ah polka and ah waltz, fox-trot. And we danced a lot.

And then after we were married, we took some dancing lessons, and we round-danced. Interviewer: Round-danced? Speaker: My wife and I, yeah. Interviewer: What is round-dance like? Speaker: Well just two people dancing together, eh, yeah. And you could do the polka, you-know, we've done polka.

Interviewer: Yeah. Did you- did you play sports in high-school? Speaker: No, I didn't do a ruddy thing except um very rough sort-of ah basketball.

...you could've had a room in that beautiful hotel looking over Quebec-City and the Lake-Lawrence for what we were paying on this ruddy motel.

And so the ruts on the streets were frozen solid.

Only one person can quit, that's you. I got up one morning here and b-- my breakfast used to be that much rye in a water-glass. Besides the job I- s-- stuff I had at the job. Got up one morning and I said- poured a drink and I said "What the hell's the matter with you?" Opened the bottle, poured it back in, never touched it from that day to this.

Maybe you spell out schlockey or-something or hockey, anyway you- and then you tap sticks each time. And then on the third tap you fight for the puck and at either end, there's a little tiny goal that you have to get the stick in- or the puck through.

Speaker: Yes, I remember schlockey. I played that too. Interviewer: Explain what schlockey is. She's never heard of this. I've never told her about it. Speaker: Okay, you have- I-don't-know how- what size it is, we'll say about as long as this table.

Speaker: Should have brought it to your next school. Tell them how to build it. Interviewer: I tried. But anyway. Speaker: That's schlockey for you.

Interviewer: And when you get- when you got home what was the first thing that you would do? Speaker: Unload school bags- Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: And yeah- and probably have a cookie or-something- Interviewer: Uh-huh. Speaker: That mom had baked (laughs).

From Scot-- decent. Well there was English in our family and Scotch both and little bit of Iri-- Irish.

Speaker: And ah, my older sister was picking on me and ah- the one that's just next to me- that she'd be the- one, two, three- she'd be the fourth one (laughs). And the closest to my age. Oh yeah, then they got into a big scrap and-- (laughs). Interviewer: Oh! Speaker: I was forgotten (laughs).

Interviewer: Do you remember the most memorable like scrap you had? Speaker: The most memorable scrap, wow. Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: Probably in high-school. A fellow by the name of Dustin-Dupree was his name.

so Nicky tells a story one way and my other two friends so basically he gets in a fight with this guy, the scuffle occurs.

So she's living with him there and Keri's here, she's going through nursing and- and she's using her hospital. And she's got a boyfriend here. Apparently, they just bought a hou-- or shampoo home. So they're settling in in ah- ah- Earleton or Englehart, I'm not sure which one but anyways they're here. Karen, I haven't heard much about. I have to go and visit my mother again soon to find out how she's doing and ah- but as far as I know, she was- well she should be ending school. Probably this year, so I'm not sure what she's up to yet. No.

Speaker: Yeah, gardening and haying and stooking grain. Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: Ah, when you- used to be when they cut the grain, they made it into sheaves and then you had the stuko sheaves- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: To dry. Interviewer: Oh wow. Speaker: And then you loaded them on a wagon and brought them into the thrashing machine. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: It's a lot simpler nowadays.