We'd had to be outside. That was the rule. And we didn't come home until we were called home for supper. And we that once we heard my mom yell all of our names to- ... Get home for supper, we better damn well get home for supper. ... Or we weren't eating.

Speaker: (Laughs) I went ah, partied a little too hard and I missed we-- supper one night. Interviewer: Missed supper? That is- is that- (laughs) is that it? Speaker: (Laughs) Yeah, I was ah, partying a little hard there and- I started at ten-o'clock 'cause the bar opens at ten there.

Speaker: It's a card game. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: And um first day we were at- um like we got there in time for supper so we went to Jack-Astors. And it was a table of girls with a guy waiter. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And we asked him if we could take a picture with him (laughs). Interviewer 2: (Laughs). Speaker: So we did.

It was the first word that came to your mind and come the end it started- we had got- talking about peanut-butter sandwiches for supper everyday. Interviewer: (Laughs). Speaker: And then we went to Lindsay-Lohan being in jail and- Interviewer: (Laughs). Speaker: Just somehow it all tied back to a pet iguana.

Speaker: I take all the big ones. And then a war starts and then we're find a Nerf- Nerf-gun bullets for the next three months. Interviewer: (Laughs) That's funny. Speaker: My mom would actually cook supper during one of our wars. That's what we call it and she was spaghetti this one day and Allen decided he was going to run through the kitchen upstairs. Well I was chasing him with the gun, I shot a bullet, it went into the spaghetti sauce.

Speaker: And another thing I learned from that video was um you tell the kid to do something. And it's not, "Go do this now." It's, "Okay Brian, sometime before supper can you go take out the trash?" Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Supper comes, if they haven't taken out the trash, just don't set a- like don't set a place for them. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: And a little before supper, remind them, "Remember, I said, Brain, you have to go and put out the trash before supper." And- supper comes and there's not a place set for them, they'll go take out the trash.

They were probably about a dozen kids my age who were still going to school, of course. So, there were- I had good friends there. You-know, we played cards, we went to dances, we went to- out to supper. Just- you-know, not- not romantically or-anything but just a good group of kids. We played lots of cards and just go-- curled together.

In the bush and swim and lakes we didn't even know and fish in them and come back for supper- ... Come back when we got hungry.

He does because you knew when it was noon because the sun was like blar-- blazing over your head- ... And by supper time it was going down, so you knew enough to come home and eat.

Interviewer: So at home, were you ah- were you guys close with your neighbours, everyone in the neighbourhood? Speaker: Yes, uh-huh. We played games after supper especially with the neighbourhood kids.

Interviewer: So when did you meet your husband? Speaker: Oh, I met him um at a supper in the church. He was ah- we're United-Church and he was too and he was growing up in (inc). And ah, he was on the farm until he was about sixteen and then he came down here and (inc) at the supper then and so wasn't immediately that we went out but ah he was- he was in the ah young people's too and we used to ah we'd go to that together. It was interesting (laughs).

And sometimes people are stupid. I-mean, there's ah ah ah- property just down the street from us, it has a really big tree. And ah, I was headed out for a walk so it was late in the day after supper. And ah, I'm walking away from this house and bunch of people are running towards me. "Where you guys going?" "Oh, there's a bear up a tree."

Speaker: Arthritis and she's ended up- she's been laid up for two-and-a-half-years from the hospital to the nursing home. Interviewer: Oh no. Speaker: So I still have them- ah had them last night. Ah, take them out for supper and to let them come home and watch television and enjoy their own home. So that's how it ended up.

... that's a big business there and they stop you on the street and offer you a sweater or offer you a bottle of whiskey or offer you anything if you'll come to their party and a free supper, all-you-can-eat. And then they give the speech after of- of ah these apartments and how nice they are, and-

Speaker: So he thought he'd stop by, stay overnight so he could take his son out for supper. And it's just funny how like somebody who hasn't been here in a year- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: He recognizes me and I thought "Okay this man looks familiar." But it's 'cause he looks like his son.

And I-don't-know what it is a muskrat or-whatever at the back there I've seen a few times but he comes down the hill and by the shed and- think he's having supper in the shed (laughs).

Interviewer: Pig on a leash? (Laughs) Speaker: Well yeah because they took it for a walk. The kids thought it was a pet. They didn't realize it was going to become supper someday.

Interviewer: Well, you have to have some time as family time. Speaker: Yeah. You-know got to check in with the young lad there and make sure, you-know, how's school going and- 'cause we bypass each other, we only have supper together every night as a family. Whether, you-know, like whether we see each other at any other time, we have supper at the table every night together.

Well with my shifts I can 'cause I'll go home, sleep. I'll take something out for supper when I go home. Sleep. My son will get me up at three-thirty and I'll cook supper and we have supper together so.

And my son will each anything. Like just about anything that you could make, he will try. So it's sometimes two or three meals, like for supper, two or three different things like if my son wants Chinese food I have to make my husband burgers and fries or a steak or-something, you-know, 'cause my husband doesn't eat that.