(40:09) Ole – If he hadn’t moved over here with his mother, he would never have had got his Grade 12.
(40:14) Alice – He had too many friends! He wasn’t a happy boy, but he did it. Now he says, he can thank us. It was the best thing that ever happened to him! You [Ole] hadn’t finished work yet, but I came over here.
(40:49) Ole – It was October, nice weather. He (Larry) came over with his old coup car. He had blown a hose. He said, “I can’t go back.” (to Salmon Arm) I said, “Why not?” He wanted the right size (of hose). I just grabbed the garden hose and said “How much do you want?” I chopped it off and handed it to him. I said, “You get over that pass, because your mother is waiting.” Right in front of his friends you know. Well it sure weakened him right there.
(41:24) Alice – We had four children, but our one daughter has passed away. She was mentally retarded. Actually she lived for I don’t know how many years in Red Deer in the Mitchener Centre. She passed away; well it will be coming up two years.
(41:49) Ole – That was a God send for her because she couldn’t talk, she couldn’t walk anymore. She tried to walk but she’d fall down a lot. She didn’t have a life.
(42:10) Alice – Our daughter Karen is the oldest. She lives over here, just out of Chase…Whispering Pines it’s called…Bob [Karen’s husband] is retired now from the CN.
(42:45) Ole – Robert’s got his own business over here in Ranchero. A mechanical business, Shuswap Rebuilders he calls it. He rebuilds generators and starters and things like that. Larry he’s working at the mill at Radium Hot Springs.
(43:12) Alice – Except now he isn’t working because the mill has been shut down. But he’s been lucky. At first he was kept on for quite a long time there. There was eight of them and he’s a mechanic. There’s two mechanics, two millwrights, two office girls and two of something else. That were kept on…and then finally it’s shut down. But he gets called in every once and a while for a shift…
(43:56) Ole – At least it keeps him going.
(44:06) Alice – They also act as security. That’s part of their job too… So there is somebody there all the time.
(44:27) Alice – Busy! We were never so busy in our whole lives (once they retired). First we had a big garden, the whole back yard was a garden and I don’t know how many fruit trees. Then of course we took up old time dancing. Sometimes we’d go four times a week. And then we started bowling. And we had lots of company. We did a fair bit of travelling. Usually every winter we took a trip. We had one trip to Arizona, one to California. We’ve been to Alaska. We’ve been down east to the Maritimes and Newfoundland. Those were some of our longer ones.
(45:33) Ole – That was one of the best trips we had in Canada.
(45:41) Alice – And we went to Hawaii. Then we had lots of trips with friends of ours. Actually he worked for the park in Revelstoke him and his wife and then they retired. We used to take our trailers and go down to the states, down to Washington. We were even down to Oregon. They were shorter trips, but they were good trips.
(46:06) Ole – Putter along, do what we wanted…She (Alice) discovered the Icicle River.
(46:16) Alice – I was supposed to be the navigator…How you get off a highway I don’t know. But I did, we did in this forest. And here’s this nice river. It’s a really nice rolling stream with rocks and such. Of course we knew we’d gone wrong, so then we had to find a place to turn around and that was not always so easy. Tom especially had a bigger one (a trailer). But you know we got out of there and I of course took the razzing! But I said, “We’d have never known where the Icicle River was if I hadn’t got us lost! We don’t do too much now, but it’s okay…
