wAnd I go- and- and then I pull out the lint- the lint trap and see you-know, it's choc covered full and I go, "You can't do this!" I says, "Don't- don't you know?" And dog hair, 'cause she had a dog with short, short hair, and it was- I- it was both you-know, there's white hair type-of-thing. I knew the dog hair and the- and the lint ...

... and I went, "Well," I says, "I can understand the dog hair," but she used- they used to- she had a- there was a wood burning stove down and they used to cut up the wood and they had little wood chips and stuff like this would flow in there as well. So, I says, "Well done." I says, "Hey, no- no floods," and you-know, and I hit- there was a thermometer downstairs with a humidity. I says, "Humidity's at fifty-percent," okay?

And I know the basement had flooded because I could see the water marks where the- where it had flooded, so even I- I says- I asked him. I says, "So the basement flood?" "Oh yeah, once." And I knew exactly how deep it got in the basement-

... I could see the water line. I says, "Okay I know," which is one- one of the things I had to fix in- because people would do that, I had to raise the furnace off the floor, because it was a retroed- retroed furnace. My- when it was put in, it was wood. Wood stove. Wood burning.

... and says, "Oh the furnace has crapped out," and whatever like that. I says, "I gotta call- phone somebody." I says, "To heck with that." I says, you-know, I mean, "I- I've made enough money on it," type-of-thing. I- the farm has made me enough money type-of-thing. I says, "I 'll- I'm gonna buy- buy a whole new burner type-of-thing, because I'm not gonna try and fix that."

And this is like in F-- this is like the beginning of February. The coldest months here. You-know like, you-know. So I says, "Okay," and my father says, he says, "Geez we better do something. You-know, we gotta do something in a hurry type-of-thing. We can't let them freeze." I says, "Well, the hydro's still on. You can- you-know, type-of-thing. Live on electricity for a while, type-of-thing until we- until we get this one."

He says, "Well, there you go. there's- right on the floor type-of-thing." I says, you-know, "How much? How much?" type-of-thing, and I- yeah, he says, "I'll take it." I had the pickup truck type- of-thing. I says, "I'm gonna mount it- I'm taking this right now."

He says, "Well that's the last model. it's a floor model." I says, "Does it work?" He says, "Oh yeah," he says, "We had one in yesterday to show something to (inc)."

Burner and everything sits there and I says, and when I finally got it in and working.

... and I said, "Now this basement can flood all the way to the rafters and it won't reach the furnace, so go ahead, do your worst!" Not that- yeah, not that I meant it but, type- of-thing. I says, "You," I says, "At least you can't flood this," because the people brought in their own appliances. Washers and dryers. Well they're now on- you-know, if they're under water, they- they pooch, then- oh they're yours.

From the rafters down, that high. And I says, "there's no way this basement can flood up to here." So I says, "There you go."

That's where the- that's where the outlet goes. Nothing- there's not-- there's no outlet below that but because the appliance is underwater, I said, "The power's still on," type-of-thing, and I says, "That's bzzzz," so I says, "I," you-know I had my- I had my gum-boots up there just in case I needed them, 'cause if I had to go in, I says, "At least I can go through the water and go bang, and hit the breaker and take that off, because you couldn't reach it." So I says, "Okay fine. you're- you're good. And you can't blow this furnace up by- by flooding it because it's now up off the floor, high enough that you can't do that," ...

... when the basement flooded a couple of times- it almost flooded almost once a year, when there was a tenant up there. Yeah, type-of-thing. I show the people how to do it, you-know, but I says, I still have to be- play the maintenance operator and go up at least twice a month just to check and maintain systems, because for some reason, the tenant doesn't want to do it.

Even when I've shown them how to do it, they don't- I have three sump-pumps up there, you-know, two stand-by-'s. I says, "If this craps out, you- you do this, you do this, you do this. You pull this over, and you throw it over there. You take this one and you go, "doo-doo-doo," you plug it in, and it goes "(noise)" and it runs, or it should run."

... that was Keith. He- he did that." I said, "Don't let him touch it again." I says, "As soon as this fails you phone me," you-know? Yes, I'm an hour away but- no I-

Interviewer: How many boyfriends have (inc)? Speaker: And I says- yeah. And I says, "Look," I says, "I'm not trying to get into your pants. Why didn't you phone me and let me come up and do it. It is my house. But I- Yes, it's your home, but it still is my house.

She says, "Oh I'm moving out at the end of the lease," and I said- you-know I was amicable type-of-thing, I says, "Okay, fine. I mean, no problem." I says, "you're all paid up," type-of-thing, "you're not delinquent in any way, but I was not- I was contemplating not extending your lease anyway because I was getting a little- this- these guys showing up," you-know, I says, "Why don't you just put a red light in the side of the house," you-know, type-of-thing. I says, "You could see it- for- for miles," you-know, type-of-thing.

Speaker: ... because she liked to go to psychics and she says, "Oh, the psychic says I'm gonna- I'm gonna be ah- I'm gonna have six- six kids." She says "I don't want six kids!" "Well, you have three already." Interviewer: You can do something to- Speaker: Type-of-thing, yeah I says, "You got three al--" yeah, type-of-thing. I says- and- and well- but my- this is someone else- someone else's lifestyle and I- I mean who am I to- you-know I mean according to the lease I can't- Interviewer: You can't do anything about that.

So you-know, we talk a little bit as this is going on and you see the second plane come in and- and hit the second tower, and I said to him, I says- I says, "That's live. That's not- that's not repeat. That's live footage," and I says, "They're under attack." I says, "That's not- that's no accident." I says- I says, "If- if they're saying that one plane hit the first tower and that plane hit the second tower, that's no accident," I says, "They're under attack."

And you-know t-- right- right then and there I says, "They're under attack. Terrorism, whatever, they're under attack." Terrorism, whatever, they're under attack." And he says- now I says, "Who else? How many el-- how many else- how many others are up there?" And then you find out later type-of-thing, the rest of the story and who's what ...