Sometimes we would bury turnip and cabbage. They kept good there, below the frost, and coming on the spring, we'd dig them out.

A lot of people had outside cellars dug in the side of a hill. We never used to have much for all year around, though. We would have ours pretty well eaten up by the spring, or the early part of the summer.

We never had too much luck with sheep, seven or eight, that's all. They would find lambs in the spring, and we would kill them in the fall. That was a good treat then. We had the wool for knitting socks and mitts, and caps and sweaters.

The wool was washed then, scalded. You'd rig up boilers outside to scald your wool and then you had to pick that wool. Here in Campbell's Creek, we would go from house to house for what they called a picking spree. A crowd would come to my house one evening after supper and they'd all pick my wool. I'd make a lunch. Then probably a few nights later, we went to someone else's place. We had a nice lot of wool. In the first few years we didn't send it away. We could card it ourselves to make our rolls, and we would spin them.

Later we found a place where we could send it away and get the rolls made. In the latter years we found out we could send it out to Prince Edward Island and get blankets made. Oh, we got beautiful blankets from there, made out of the wool. And it didn't cost too much to get that done.

There's no one who keeps sheep any more around here.

I used to knit underwear, longjohns, bottom and top. I used to knit it in two pieces. You had to knit underwear because when they were smelt fishing on the ice it would be terrible cold. The winters were cold then and they would have to be out on that ice all day long, so they would have to have the woollen underwear. Let me tell you, I did some knitting.

You'd have to have a shift, two lots. I don't know how I did it, to tell the truth.

People still tell me they find the days long, but I never saw a day since I've been born that I found it a long day. I keep busy all the time, all the time. You get into that and you can't stop.