Interviewer: So you actually had storage for your milk? Speaker: Pretty good. Yeah, just a big drum with a- Speaker 2: It was a big drum at the well. Speaker: Eight- eight gallon cream cans in it and- ... And like you w-- had to pump water in a couple times a day to keep it cool until the truck showed up and-

Well, usually when the cream come out of the whole milk you sold the cream. Ah and you kept it in a cream can in the basement until ah- ... They came and picked it up.

You- but once you became Parish-priest, well, you got more involved in doing things in the parish to make it more meaningful, like decorating, and, ah- you-know, with kids, the kids for the creche, you-know, and bringing them up.

To bring up the- the- the- the- the figures for- you-know, for the- the creche, eh? The creche, eh? And I says, "You-know," I says, "No," so I says, "An Indian community," but, ah- but I says- and I says, "The- the infant should look like a- like an Indian."

The creche, you-know, and-so-forth, ah- they kep-- they can keep it for years, even when they grow up, to put on their own tree later on, you-know.

But no, it's- it's, ah- it's, ah- you-know, you get a lot of de-- even outside, now I- we decorate outside, you-know, as well, around the- the front of the church and around the rectory, and then we have a creche outside too, as well, so- but ah, yeah.

Oh cripes. Hard on the feet, I don't know how people can stand.

But dad was very shy, I can remember when the kids were- (inc) were small and they only had one washroom in the house and if dad was in the bathtub, the kids used- and they had to go to the bathroom, the kids would have to wait until my dad got out of the bathroom and fully dressed before they were allowed to go. Well I mean cripes.

Interviewer: Now, you said you remembered my aunt. Speaker: Yeah, Lala-Belenelli. Is that- was that who your aunt was? Interviewer: It was- yeah, Brandy, yeah. Speaker: Yeah yeah. Well oh cripes, everybody remembered her. Interviewer: Well what was it that everybody remembered her. Speaker: Oh shoot. Interviewer: I was- 'cause I- Speaker: She was a real oddball. She lived out in Kenogami, eh?

But it was a beautiful place. So I- I- I- Vira and I went together for about six years, I guess that she came. And oh we had a ball. Oh, cripes some of the stor--

And then three years ago, four years ago, he decided he was too old for this to carry one. And cripes he's only- that's another funny story.

That's the other can of worms. S-- the- you don't mind helping anybody out but cripes, there's got to be some loophole somewhere.

Anyway, I was heading down there and cripes, there was a big hole in the road that wasn't there this morning, eh?

I was heading down there and cripes, there was a big hole in the road that wasn't there this morning, eh? There was a big- cripes, there's a notorious pile of earth on the- on the road.

Running around the fairgrounds. Well cripes went out the main gate of the fairgrounds, heading to Almonte.

Speaker: And the alcoholic priest. Interviewer: Alcoholic priest? Speaker: Yeah. Oh cripes. Interviewer: What did he do? Speaker: Oh, not much in (inc) I don't think.

But n-- now, cripes you could do that and he won't go.

But anyway, they had a board across but the plaster ceiling was out there and with all the excitement of this hanging going on the women took the little crock with them.

Um, well it's kind of funny. People tell you that- that, "Oh you know, you'll know when you meet to--" I thought that was a whole crock of shit. I'd met lots of people in university and you-know there's lots of girls at Western, but um, what- I-don't-know, it just, everything clicked, right?

Speaker: Water-glass you-know, that's where you put your eggs in a crock. You ever seen a crock? Interviewer: They- Speaker: Those pottery things.