Everybody worked. ... It was a family affair (laughs).

Speaker: ... I just go just to go spend a day, do some cooking but now I do- since I've been retired, I'm their cook for the two weeks when they come up- all get together. Interviewer: So it's- Speaker: Kind of a family affair.

Interviewer: Could you define a farkel for me? Speaker: A farkel? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: I guess a farkel is someone who ah sets a very low standard for- or puts out- has a very low standard for his own like sort-of efforts, you-know. Um ah an example of farkelism would be um I-don't-know a really poorly constructed deck just done half-assed, you-know, with ah I-don't-know some screws here, some nails there.

Yeah a student exchange. They would come here for a week and we would come there for a week. So the principal of the school where I was teaching asked if anyone would be willing to look after this. So I said, "Sure, I'll do that." (Laughs) And then we had this group of students come in from Ashcroft and farmed them out with different people here and- and ah they- they went over to school for a day and then went to the McCassa-Mine for a day and you-know tried to look at the community and see what- what it's like.

But they do it, but I don't think the do do it in many ways because I think when other people do it they have family that's close to them and they farm out a lot of their- their parenting things to maybe their grandparents or aunts and uncles and unfortunately we don't have that- that- that ah possibility.

Oh yeah, and that was somebody to fart around with- go to the hay and jump in the hay or play around, do this do that.

And me and my friend, we go and then this one year I got really mad I had to leave early and we just wanted to hang out and just fart around and-stuff so it was kind of disappointing.

Mm. Well, um, most of the beds had a feather tick, plus a straw mattress, and then a feather tick, and ah the feather tick, the feathers would shift around, you had to level them off when you made the bed

And then my brothers came and helped some and a neighbour came and helped some. So then he was at um, a silo felling. Like at that time the stooks were in the field and you forked them into the corn cutter. It wasn't like the way they do it now. But he was forking the corn into the cutter and he just dropped dead.

Interviewer: Two men to cut down a tree? Speaker: Well one to hold up the outer end of the blade and the other one with the engine so- Interviewer: Huh! Now a lot of people have told me that there is a real skill to felling a tree. Is that true? Speaker: Yes you don't just decide to cut it down and let it fall wherever it wants. You got to cat- cut a notchin it, and wherever possible, you should put the notch below your cut if you're wanting a log out ...

Because they were cranking us out like sausages because they needed medical officers. That's why they- army took over all the medical schools in Canada because they were losing so many. It was six years you-know and a fellow said "Oh fiddle to this, I'll- I'm gonna miss- miss the big show" so. <6> Miss the war. <066> Yeah. And ah so, the only way they could insure a steady production of medical officers was to ah was just grab everybody and say, "You're it. You're- in the army."

But I've enjoyed the Legion. I've had many jobs there. Ran the bingo for years. Ran the fifty-fifty-draw ah for years. I'm a life member now. (laughs) Don't do much around the Legion.

Speaker: Well, keeping track, making sure that everybody's on the bus, that's about it. Yeah, and- then you have to entertain them, we've got bingos, and fifty-fifty draws, and- yeah. Interviewer: Oh, tell me about those. What's a fifty-fifty draw? Speaker: Well we have one fifty-fifty is ah, fift-- f-- f-- half of the money I pick up goes to the legion and another goes to the person. And then we have a draw for the bus driver.

Certainly, if he 's gainfully employed and learning a trade, that 's fine and dandy with us,

So anyways, that was fine and dandy.

There 's a Second- Cup place there. Okay. That 's fine and dandy with me, as- I guess- I- it looks the Chinese people run it. I got nothing against the Chinese people eh?

Because every lesson is t-- pertaining to the Bible it's all fine-and-dandy, I believe in it, but not that much.

Well fine-and-dandy but you-know “get back to us when you can you-know I’m reading this book now.”

So, we had the due and everything else fine and dandy.

Okay. Fine-and-dandy. It's- it's kind-of difficult at seventeen years of age, you-know?