I wait for him to come around and he came around the corner and I smoked him right in the head with my flashlight. Knocked him out cold. Handcuffed him and called the police.

Yeah. One time I wiped out hard and smoked my face off the water, and- yeah.

Speaker: Ah, I wanted to do something a little more adventurous, a little more exciting, more dangerous. I wanted actually to be a smoke jumper. Interviewer: What's a smoke jumper? Speaker: The guys that go into a forest fire and they'll- they get dropped, they jump out of a helicopter or a plane inside the ah- the other side of the fire and then try to fight the fire from the inside out.

Mosquitoes, we had mosquitoes we had the creek behind the house- ... And uh, we- we never could eat supper without building what we ca-- when the- in the mosquito season, we always- my mother always built a smudge. Now a smudge was a pail with a whole lot of little chips from the wood-shed in it and you would uh, light a little fire in them and there'd be no flame to be seen but she would put that under the table, right in the centre under the table to keep the mosquitoes away. You couldn't eat supper at all in the summer kitchen without this smudge under the table and the smoke would- would come up from under the table but it didn't bother us at all we ate on- ... And uh, the mosquitoes were extremely bad. ... You couldn't sit out in the mosquito season at all.

Speaker: The old, old fences there, they're done. Interviewer: Mm-hm. What- what kinds did they have? Speaker: Well ah they had- some on split them up and made rails. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker 2: We made zig-zag. Speaker: And ah made these snake-fences. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And those rails today that we couldn't get anything for, are two dollars a piece. The people's buying them around these new places you-know, and-

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? Interviewer: Zig-zag. Speaker: Yeah, zig-zag. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: That's what they called a snake fence.

Speaker: ... any place where there were a lot of rocks that they had in the fields that they had to uh, to tear off the rocks they put up stone fences and then from- from that they went to uh- to the log fences which some of them were called snake fences and uh- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Some were just straight logs and some were uh, other varieties. There are names for them but uh- Interviewer: Mm-hm and then later on they used to put uh, the posts in the ground.Speaker: That's right.

I just walked away. Finally, I was just like, "Listen bitch," right? "Like, I used to tell you when the bell would ring and you would get mad at me and be all snarky and tell me about how you could hear the damn bell yourself and I didn 't- you didn 't need my help

...we weren 't far off of them ourselves but he th-- he just felt that he didn 't like that so he wrote them quite a snarky letter about firing me for such a petty thing and all that.

Me and Adriana, and they're like, "You coming to the Girls-Night-Out?" Or, "You coming to where the women are?" and Adrianna goes snarky, "I've found where the women are. See ya." I'm like, "Whoa." And she's like, "You didn't want to go to that sweetie, did you?" I'm like, "I found a woman, I'm okay.

She- she was- you-know, so I got a little snarky with her one night. And she got into a fit of crying. She pounded her first on the bed, she kicked the wall, she said she was going to go out...

And we started at seven-o'clock in the morning in the back lawn to take these horses and you put ropes on to trip them. Throw them down. Turn them up on their back and geld them, you-know-what-I-mean? And if they'd any bad feet, you'd grab the snips and see that their feet were ready to go. Turn them over, put the saddle on them and this is one thing that is a terrible again.

Usually she had shortbread, a french loaf always on hand. But you didn't snitch those things.

You could go to the cookie tin and get a cookie but you didn't snitch shortbread nor you didn't snitch french loaf.

Speaker: But we used to fight eh 'cause I used to snitch her. She had beautiful clothes 'cause she was out working eh- she was pa-- Interviewer: She was the older one. Speaker: She was the older one so I'd go and snitch her nice sweater and then bring it home and there'd be a spot on it (laughs) and then she'd get mad at me and (laughs).

Like, ah, if we happened to snitch some, ah, ah, cucumbers or- or carrots, eh?

And- and there was a bit of- at that time there was a bit of snobbery attached to going to Haileybury because not everybody could go because you had to have those marks. And I don't think that was the reason I went. I just went there because it was closer and because my brothers and sisters had gone there and I knew it had a good- it was a good reputation and-all-those-things.

Speaker: There used to be a lot. There used to be a lot. But we'd- we don't get the snowees, I can remember when the snow would be up you-know half way up these windows but- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: It's um, it's not like that. I remember one time we were at school and it was- it was Valentine's day and it was- oh, it was storming really really badly.

See. All these great lives that would have been snuffed out if they had followed that way, yeah?

Interviewer: Did I ask you if you ever heard the- the word snye? Speaker: Snine? Interviewer: Snye, snye. Speaker: Snye? Interviewer: Do you know what that is? Speaker: I've often heard the word said, but I couldn't tell you what was it for. Snye. Interviewer: Is that, ah, maybe a little, ah, arm of the- Speaker: Oh, in the river. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Oh yes, that's what they called, like, a place where you go in, it's up there, where Finlay's has the cottages. Comes in and goes up in around this way, and then goes no place. Turns around. Is that what you mean? Interviewer: I'll, ah- I just won-- is that what you would call a snye? Speaker: A snye? Interviewer: Do you call that, ah- that little bit of the river there, is that what that kind of thing is? Speaker: Yes, that's a- I worked up there, built a wall eleven feet high on the side of that, for young Bert (inc). Interviewer: But you've heard people talk about the snye. Speaker: Yeah. Yes, but ah, they call other big things- ah, I think it's a dangerous place to get into, or-something, with a boat. Interviewer: Oh, I see. Ah, where- where did you hear this- people talk about it? Speaker: I couldn't tell you that. Interviewer: Was it up in Arnprior, or here? Speaker: I couldn't tell you that. I never went along this lake, up this along to Arnprior. See this here goes into- to Ottawa, down here at Arnprior.