Had her kittens (laughs). When the mine closed too, we got pretty well all the caps I think. Some of them were kind of wild. My mother opened the attic thing down there and you could see up that little door out there.

Interviewer: So you guys traveled quite a lit-- quite a bit? ... Speaker: Yeah. We were overseas a lot. And we were down the sta-- ah, pretty well around Canada and the States and we were enough-

Interviewer: Who taught you to ski? Speaker: Oh pretty well, self-taught. ... Yeah. You just get on there. We took a few lessons. You-know-

Interviewer: How about your neighbours. Have they been staying together or do you find that divorce is really rampant among your generation too? Speaker: No pretty well our generation most of them are still together.

I think a lot of the- lot of it is drug-related you-know and they pretty well know who the drug dealers are and where they are and every once in a while they are able to catch them and pick them up and put them away for a while and ah- they're d-- domestic disputes that ah-

Interviewer: I know in the old days people talked about playing in the slimes, you ever do that? ... Speaker: Yeah but I mean that's not much fun. It's pretty well just flat and if it's really wet I guess you could sink but it's not as fun as like going back behind the mine and-that where there's like big mud holes.

Yeah, pretty well the whole summer, we'd go there unless I take a week off to go to Timmins or-something. But through the winter, yeah, we're always in Timmins (laughs). It was nice.

Speaker: Bottle-hunting, we used to do that too, yeah. Interviewer: Is that the kind the of stuff you'd do as a kid to get money or- Speaker: I- pretty well. Yeah, because m-- my mom- there was a big family so it's not like they can give you money all the time, like she made sure that we had money for schooling and if we needed stuff ...

... she was sitting on a little chair and she went to get up but there was a big pail of puddy or-something there- ... Right into it, she landed right- pretty well up to her waist and I had to take her out of that.

Well- but no, they spent a lot of their time here where- like we pretty well taught them how to ride their bikes, that's how much time they spent here. Um. What else? I can't remember everything. But no, they're- they're- they're with me all the time.

Um, water-skiing I cannot do, I tried. ... I ca-- right pretty well, right on my face (laughs). That's about it. I can't tr-- I can't do it. I've tried a few times and I cannot do it.

Speaker: ... I just find the people are friendly in Kirkland. ... I had great neighbours. ... Like we pretty well, like you-know, he wants something, he'll come here and get it. If we're in short of something, we'll just go to Carter's and grab his like, you-know?

... storm last year but ah we're all in the tent and I remember the winds were bad, I actually thought we we're going to blow our tent. ... But it didn't. It was ah wicked storm, there was quite a few of us too. And we just pretty well ran into the one tent, eh? Um, but maybe because the weight of us all in the tent, it helped. 'Cause I really thought we were going to lose it, our tent.

... well my dad died just as I started working. He died in nineteen-sixty, that's when I graduated and started work. And ah, so I was ah, pretty well hit, because he was sick for four years prior to that and he couldn't do anything. He got sick from the mine and his kidneys went and-

And it was very interesting, I worked on surface in the mine. I pretty well had to because in those days we had to pay for our school books. And ah, when my dad got ill, we were on welfare, and they wouldn't pay for it so I worked in the mine. And that's how I ended up completing high-school.

Ah cutting grass, ah, you-know, tree ah, ah hauling out the brush and-stuff ah everything to do with ah the Ministry I-guess, they use us as just slave labour pretty well.

And I got two friends of mine that are really good, I went to school from grade-school right through high-school, I've known them all my life pretty well. And ah I see them standing outside there when I'm driving by the first time, you-know.

It was like- so for eight days we hung around the pool, ah we sat and drank margaritas and-everything. It was kind-of cool 'cause the pool itself, you had a- ah, you could have it with liquor, without liquor and- we pretty well run the pool, we were doing cannonballs and- crazy Canadians. It's like "Crazy Canucks!"

Well I- I was born and raised in Kirkland-Lake and ah, lived here pretty well all my life except for one year I was in North-Bay.

See when we were growing up- in the summer time as a student you could pretty well get a job in underground, eh? Ah, and there was always the danger- 'cause we have rock bursts. In those days, my God they- every time there was a rock burst or a- an explosion the- all the houses in the town would just shake.