Um, yeah, I've had the threshing machine, I worked the threshing machine, throwing the sheaves. Worked- did all the farm work, same as he did, worked, helped him ploughed and-so-on, all summer long ...

My dad and I were drawing in grain. It was stooked and ah, I was building the load and um, a groundhog was in a stook. A stook is five sheaves or- or seven or eight whatever, ah, and ah, this groundhog scooted ou-- out and frightened the horses and the horses ran away.

And when you ah harvested the crop, it was cut with a binder and it was put in stooks in the field and you had a threshing machine. Then you put the s-- sheaves on the wagon and you haul 'em into the barn and- and then you had a big threshing-bee and the neighbours came and you threshed the grain and- now of course it's all done with combines and big outfits and- and the farms are getting larger.

Three day- it might take three days at each farm to thresh it and it be six wagons. And six wagons or so and with the team of horses and they- they- they pull up the side of thresher machine and fork the sheaves into the thrashing machine, that's how-

Speaker: There was two kind of stook. They used to have the long stooks and they'd be two, two, two and two. And the stook would be about- it would have maybe ten sheaves in it. Five pairs. And then the round stooks you just had two and two and- 'bout maybe six or seven. And- and it was round then.

Speaker: You go into the field and cut the grain with the binder in it. Interviewer 1: So it almost (inc)- Speaker: Makes it into stooks, yeah makes it- Interviewer 1: Oh 'kay! Speaker: Into stooks, into sheaves, yes stooks is when you put them all together made it into sheaves. Glad you remember these things (laughs) 'cause I can't- made it into sheaves and then ah- Interviewer 2: She drove the tractor, mom rode the binder-

... ah you raked all the grain up with a hay-rake that the horses pulled, and then ah got the binder, and ah went along and it picked- it picked the grain up and straw, and fed it through the unit, and it would tie what's referred to as a sheaf of grain.

Interviewer: That had as-- um sharp spiky pieces, what did you call that? Speaker: They had the- they had the- the shed fence, and they had the crab fence, and they had the snake fence. Now the snake fence was done with the rails go- well, you-see they'd- they'd go this way and then the next fence would go that way and then come this way, you-see?

A rail fence is we used to call them, but then there was the rail fence, they made them into the crab fence or the shed fence, or then there was another one they called the draper fence around here. How it got the name of Draper, because there was a Draper man that started to build it. And it went by the name of Draper-Fence. Yeah.

Her roommate works at the same bar. So essentially we could say that we were going to pick up her roommate. When we got there, like, thank-god, there was some sort of shenanigan going on with these guys who'd walked out on like a three- hundred-dollar bill. So all the staff were in their cars chasing these guys down the street ...

Speaker: So I-don't-know, I just- myself looking at that, I mean, i-- it's supposed to look all nice from prim-and-proper but I have a feeling that there's a lot more shenanigans and a lot more other stuff going on than- "Wear your clothes?" you-know. Be fully clad. Interviewer: For sure. Well, I know- you-know, knowing kids that went to a catholic- school compared to a public high-school, I mean, we didn't have uniforms ...

Speaker: Like I- they like, kick you out you-know, type-of-thing and the f-- for water now I can t- I don't know the reasoning behind that um, whether there was shenanigans at the fountain. Interviewer: Water fights maybe.

... we were full of hellray and then Dan- Dan and I 'specially. Mother would take us to her church and she'd play the organ (inc) but after- before the first (inc) the first hymn was done she had us sitting up with her. She wasn't putting up with the shenanigans we were going through. That's- I guess we had a good life.

Speaker: And he would- like we would do our own thing. I had my friends, he had his. He would do his own little she-- shenanigans over there I-don't-know. Interviewer: Okay.

Speaker: My son brought- bought me that for Christmas couple years ago. It's a- Mourn-The-Line-Of-An-Expose-Of-American-Imperialism. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Teddy-Roosevelt and ah his shenanigans. And I'm really into the part now where the Americans took over the Philippines and that the underhanded dealings that they- they had you-know. It's- it really comes down pretty hard on- on the Americans and their foreign policy.

And he come in- come in the other class and put on some kind of sh-- shenanigans. One of- this particular day he was proposing to the teacher in the class and all the different- (inc) Italian, and a Frenchman, Chinaman, and-all-the-rest. And he could do all through the antics this. A real- real actor (laughs).

Speaker: ... so the Irish and that's in my father's side there is ah Scottish and French. Interviewer 1: Huh. Interviewer 2: Cool. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer 1: And horse thieves. Speaker: Yes we were horse thieves. So that's maybe where my shenanigan- action-for-shenanigans comes from.

Interviewer: Did there- no fighting at all? Speaker: There was- oh there was definitely some shenanigans ah- Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: I remember one time we had one of those um records, the forty-fives. It was the original Star-Wars one where you could read along with the Star-Wars books. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: If we had it now it would be worth money.

Speaker: I- I love Monty-Python. Interviewer 1: Yes. Interviewer 2: Oh yeah. Speaker: I love his shenan-- like the shenanigans from Monty-Python. And um and Mike-Myers and-that-kind-of-thing like it's amazing. But again comedy, being able to laugh is a great- great healing tool for everyone so-

Oh well we were in good terms. They used to come and help me when they could, but they'd ah, done a lot of shenanigans.