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.

And right here where this um tin shack is used to be a dance-hall. And ah they had- in the early years there'd be dances pretty well every weekend. They used to have some famous bands like The-Inkspots come up here. And ah, place was just a-buzzing out here.

Speaker: Yeah I was p-- pretty well finished and- ... Interviewer: Then when you came out?

Interviewer: How many hours or days would it take? Speaker: Well- y-- they could ah, when we have a group of three on each side, you could pretty well get- if you started in good time, you could get over quite a bit of it in a day, and if another day would come, we'd have to go another day ...

Ah all wine from all sorts of ah all vegetables, you-know? And ah they'd use that instead of buying liquor. They can use this wine 'cause I know a few cases I've heard of older gentlemen, this lady was really good at making wine and they'd get pretty well ah- ah alcoholed up with the wine and they- they couldn't drive. They had a horse and they'd bring the horse and the horse could get them home, but they couldn't drive (laughs).

No, they were pretty well done farming by the time we got married. His dad wasn't in good health.

And ah, my dad used to let us off work to go to the strawberry festivals. During the day- during the afternoon. But ah he kept us working pretty well all the time.

Mm, so (coughs), the rest of the time I pretty well just skied at Sir-Sam's.

Interviewer: Well Dick it's been a real pleasure to talk to you. Speaker: You gone through pretty well all of my Haliburton stuff anyway so-

Speaker: Oh yes, we had a garden with carrots and parsnips and cabbage. But no, we didn't have turnips every day (laughs). ... but ah we eat pretty well at th-- those what they called the thirties, there wasn't very much money. Nobody'd money. And most things were made at home. Garden. We killed our own meat.

So the first three nurses pretty well stayed about a year each and then there was some that would stay two and sometimes there'd be three.

And- and we got permission from the sons to put the pictures in and to put titles on. I wrote the titles for pretty well- that- there she is, yes.

Well he was old. ... He couldn't ah keep it up. But he h-- always kept one cow pretty well you-know to the last- but he never milked it.

Well I played in the Sunday school in kindergarten. I never got out of kindergarten. Ah, all the- pretty well all the time my kids were going and now we don't even have a kindergarten- or a Sunday school. No kids go, just old people like me (laughs).

It- it leaks now terribly. But it was a- our neighbour told my son that it was the first barn built ah, here ah, that had a steel roof on it.... And it's pretty well the original roof I-think (laughs). So it was built about nineteen-hundred.

And at midnight they would have a big meal at midnight. ... there would be sandwiches and all the sweets you would want, pickles. Every meal in the county pretty well- the old timers had pickles at every meal. You always had a pickle with meal.